LordPassionFruit

@LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used sheets because it was portable and flexible, but now I’d almost always just use a db instead.

  My main use for excel now is “I need to send data to someone who isn’t a programmer” and doing json > CSV conversions to see if my 3000 rows of data from a 3rd party have all the necessary bits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed spreadsheets before becoming a programmer (I still enjoy them, I just spend less time on them) and basically self taught over the years using Google Sheets.

  There are several really useful functions on sheets that simply do not exist in Excel, and there are others that work almost the same but not quite. Having to use Excel drives me insane sometimes because of how clunky it feels.

  By contrast, using LibreCalc feels kinda how you’d expect an open source Google Sheets to feel? It’s slightly clunkier, but it gets the job done and generally feels better to use than Excel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner was eligible for ~$750 per month repayments under a Biden era plan that Trump scrapped. They now have to pay ~$4300 per month. The headline isn’t far off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I specified “nearly” the worst. It can absolutely get the job done and has basically every tool you’d need to do the job, but it’s pretty much the worst amongst the “this will do everything you need” options.

  My thought process was abacus < pen & paper < text file < spreadsheet < database solutions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foxconn unveils first large language model⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was only a matter of time until the kings of human misery came out with one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could run empires on the back of a spreadsheet.

  You absolutely shouldn’t, it’s nearly the worst option you have available, but you could.