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Yeah, that was my thinking — that for most purposes LibreOffice will replace Microsoft Office fairly well. But I'm always keen to hear what bumps people run into when they switch from the latter. For you it seems there haven't been any worth mentioning?

Glad to hear it's gone so smoothly!

Welcome to the resistance! 😄

I did pretty much similar as you, but about a decade ago. Was it really Windows 8 at the time? 7 perhaps? Even then the OS was becoming increasingly bloated, and crudely implementing channels for Microsoft to milk data from users.

For me it wasn't so much editors and development environment that kept me around, but the Adobe suite — specifically the lack of CMYK support in FLOSS alternatives. In the end I was quite happy to just find workarounds for the few print jobs I would have to do.

Quite often I think people are less resisting a new OS environment than the software available. "I couldn't use the same shortcuts in [FLOSS package] as in [proprietary software], so I went back to Windows"...

I'm not exactly a hardcore Excel user myself, but I'd be interested to hear how your transition to LibreOffice (I guess the most viable alternative?) will work out.

I genuinely thought we were training Google's self driving car algorithm, like back when we were proof reading their illegally scanned books' OCR.

Yeah, this news cycle may not be the best for CUPS advocacy 😄

I wholly disagree with everything you just said, including that your friends and family by your own assessment are unable to rise above average skills. But you know them better than I do, of course 🤷

It's free on f-droid, though? https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/

Very meta, good work 😄

Good discussions can arise from bad takes, and the idea of "failure" can often be an impediment — especially in a forum where users' yay or nay to a post literally decide its currency and ranking.

Assuming that the poster in this case deleted their post out of "shame" for a "failed idea", however, is a bit of an overreach without access to their thoughts and motivations. And trying to pass principles about what "we" should or shouldn't do on that basis is equally flimsy.

I do agree that deleting a post with several replies can be damaging to a discussion — emphasis on the potential, not the actual value of any given Lemmy conversation — but becoming the target for criticism or even ridicule for an ill-considered post isn't exactly pleasant either. And after a few decades online, I'm not faulting anybody for deleting one post or another, even though I probably don't understand the reasoning for doing so.

In the end, everybody is on here for different reasons, and all of them are valid. It would be nice to make a noble agreement about what "should" and "shouldn't" be done when you get massively downvoted, but if people want to curate their pseudonymous online presence to appear less daft than their worst — let 'em.

Oh sorry, did I deviate from current groupthink? At least I didn't cross the line into posting blackface.

I've been eyeing Pico, but it doesn't seem to be super well maintained? Do you know if it's still active?

I'm starting to see a pattern in modern Trek here. We're used to seeing shows made by committee, but the rate that key creative people are being swapped out and their ideas corrupted as they're passed on is just disconcerting:

Alex Kurtzman, James Duff, and I believe maybe one other writer was involved at the time, and James really wanted it to be a Borg spin-off. […] But had Patrick not done it, some kind of show about the Borg would have happened. It would not have been Picard, it would have been a show about the Borg. […] And James left the show before they began filming. He had a creative differences and left, I think, weeks before I even began. I’d signed my contract, and the people that were left, I think, then made that decision [that Hugh was getting killed off] without my being told or even knowing about it through gossip.

Never mind that actors aren't told in advance what will happen to their characters, I get a feeling that writers make things up on the fly while actually shooting fairly serialised seasons. We see Bryan Fuller being removed from Disco while it's in preproduction, then Berg and Harberts being fired mid-season two.

As somebody who loved early Discovery and only hate watches the kitschy car crash of Strange new worlds, that sort of subtext gives me really bad vibes off the current Trek productions.

And who is left once the dust settles. Too often we see Akiva Goldsman getting pulled in to "save" shows and,for all his Academy Award winning "A beautiful mind" glory, he seems to mostly play fantasy football with Star Trek.

Goldsman's Star trek tributes were cutesy when he did them on Fringe, but now that he's a mover on the actual franchise, fucking up continuities of the TOS roster and every bit of canon about the Gorn? Not so much.

Pffft, killing football in Italy is as impossible as killing baseball in the US. Italians will go extinct before their favourite teams.