Damn, I was gonna say just use web version, but they do often have missing features compared to app, so I understand why you had to download it…
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoIn college my professor wouldn’t accept pdfs for assignments because it guess he couldn’t check the metadata or make comments or something.
So I literally had to download MS office just to submit assignments in their format…
Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.
The only reason to use it would be to write things in Libre and then copy/paste them into MS and manually fix all the formatting.
I hated it, because all the professors could just smugly say “You know you have free access to Office 365 with your student email, right?”
That’s not the fucking point! I don’t give a shit if it’s free, I don’t want to use a fucking microsoft product, especially one that’s cloud-based, when there’s a perfectly good open-source alternative that I can run locally on my own hardware.
Just one of the many problems with the corporatization, commodification, and enshittification of education. If the focus was on learning and academic freedom, FOSS solutions would be encouraged. But no, you’re forced to use proprietary software, because “
reasons” capitalism…pycorax@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.
You don’t actually need a subscription for the cloud web version actually.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 day ago
There are some people who míght learn from a ransomware attack. Only if it personally hits them, of course.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I don’t know enough to understand the connection. Can you please explain?
b_tr3e@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Ransomware attack are successful mostly against MS Active Directory and Ourlook based setups.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
That’s hilarious. Big corporation apparently can’t afford basic cybersecurity. Always pinching pennies.
Anyway, any big organization should encrypt their core systems to prevent ransomware attacks. Individuals should too. It’s just good practice.