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Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.

TheFonz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For sure. I would love to ditch Autocad, but that would require me convincing my entire industry. I hate AutoCAD.

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unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Industry Standard software is just a fancy way of saying “Monopoly”

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- TheFonz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sure, but it’s also not easy to pivot an entire workforce to a new software platform. I work in architecture and the industry on a whole runs on the smallest possible margins and is managed by boomers that can barely mark up a pdf.
  
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  - MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    …that can barely mark up a pdf.
    
    This seems to suggest they can download, locate, possibly extract, and then open one.
    
    I’m genuinely awe struck. Yours are practically self-reliant compared to ours! :(
    
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- ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s OK if it’s FOSS. Imagine if Adobe Acrobat was FOSS and PDF was an open standard - it would have double the features and 10 times less suck.
  
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  - unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Actually, PDFs have been an open standard since 2008.
    
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