Comment on AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices

• beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just cos it’s Foss doesn’t mean it follows the Linux philosophy

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• whofearsthenight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I honestly think it’s mostly a problem with the idea that the Office apps are extremely bloated, kitchen sink apps. No one should be looking at Word or Libre Writer and thinking “I’m going to build a contracting system for my clients out of that” or “I bet I could make an inventory system in there” and yet…

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep.

    People try to use Word as a desktop publishing app then complain how it shifts images around. Thats because it’s for documents, which flow page to page.

    Use Publisher for DTP, or a real, industry app. Same problem of using Excel for a database purpose.

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