Comment on Why I’m So Desperate for the Return of Microsoft Word to Our Prison Library

jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does Libre Office run on Swintec typewriters…

  Because the issue is they’re not even allowed a PC, the budget only allows typewriters.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the budget only allows typewriters.

    I see them online for ~$350. You could build a decent budget pc for the same price. Or you could buy a few single board computers for the same price.

    I’m betting the budget isn’t the problem.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m betting the budget isn’t the problem.

      Jesus ya think? Is today “everyone painfully obviously didn’t read the article and commented anyway” day?

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      • mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hostile much

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    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The issue seems to be how the money is designated, not the amount of money. Even if you have a million bucks budgeted for typewriters for one facility, it’s not automatically fungible.

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      probably still the budget, but not as in amount, but as in how it is specified in the actual budget.

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  • n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The think clients should be capable of running Libre Office, or at least running it remotely.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Have you ever worked in a corporation or in government? Even moreso, have you ever worked at a secured facility of any type?

      You don’t just get to install whatever the fuck you want on machines, you know? They have to go through a process, and since this is a government organization, if the law doesn’t allow them to install something like that on a thin client, it’s kind of pointless to reference.

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      • n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, I literally am a government employee, and formerly worked in the military in Radio Comms and IT, often with Top Secret communications and infrastructure . I am intimately familiar with government procedures.

        I never said that end-users would be setting up LibreOffice. I’m just pointing out there’s a low/no-cost solution, and it isn’t a hardware limitation.

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