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- Comment on Rorschach Test: Tholian War Hero or Tellarite Genitalia? Which do you see? 2 hours ago:
Looking up the nose of the person who’s sitting on my face.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 hours ago:
This is also true for other people.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK 3 hours ago:
Why? Israel and Saudi Arabia get along pretty well. They are natural allies against Iran. The current war in Gaza is all that stands between Saudi Arabia entering the Abraham accords.
- Comment on Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔 3 hours ago:
Yes, the usability is not easy. It takes quite some practice to control the camera well.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 hours ago:
The biggest issue is security updates and a current internet browser.
Of course I can use a 30 year old computer that still works with the software it can run.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 hours ago:
LibreOffice is okay for some stuff, but shows its limitations pretty quickly once you use it for more serious tasks.
- Writer is the best of the suite and has deleted comments for me several times without ability to recover.
- The spreadsheet is a toy compared to Excel spreadsheets used in pretty much any business.
- The presentation software produces ugly results by default.
The only things LibreOffice has going for it, is the price and that the UI doesn’t change. LibreOffice has no good mobile apps.
Better alternatives to Microsoft Office are Google Docs etc. and Apple’s iWork suite. Both have good compatibility with Microsoft’s files and run great on mobile.
Google has ease of use, easy sharing and collaboration. Apple’s iWork has great usability and features and produces beautiful results by default. The suite comes free with every Apple device. Google Docs is free to use as well.
That’s of course ignoring the workhorse called Outlook. You can kind of approach its features with a handful of other applications, but won’t reach the same functionality.
LibreOffice has one unique application in its suite: Base local database. Microsoft Access and FileMaker used to very popular, but faded into the background over the last decade.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 hours ago:
15 years is actually reasonable.
I have a ten year old laptop with an i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD. It still does most things, I bought it for initially just fine. Granted this was one of the best laptops you could buy at the time.
Apple stopped supporting it with a current version of macOS a couple of years ago sadly. It’s still possible to patch newer versions to install and run on the old machine, but it’s a bit of a hassle.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.
- Comment on monthly challenge 4 weeks ago:
It’s correctly used in the text.
Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 4 weeks ago:
Start with it standing in the morning. Lower it when you feel like it. Then after lunch start standing again, lower over time.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 4 weeks ago:
I agree with you.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 4 weeks ago:
Yes, banks are used for crimes on a massive scale. Usually that’s not available to small time people.
Crypto can be used for criminal activity with a low barrier to entry. There are several use cases where things maybe should not be illegal in the first place. Like buying drugs for example.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 months ago:
The more taboo a topic, the more it gets people agitated, sometimes this is channeled sexually.
- Comment on Is the cure to male loneliness shitposting? 2 months ago:
Toxic place that suppresses all dissent and thus is unable to change, adapt, or even recognize problems.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 2 months ago:
Never give them evidence against you. They should do the work themselves.
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 2 months ago:
What country are you talking about?
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 2 months ago:
Israel has actual protests against the government ongoing. It’s not clear if Netanyahu will manage to win the next election.
There are no protests in Russia at all and elections are a farce.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 2 months ago:
Lemmings in shambles.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 2 months ago:
I organized pen and paper RPG conventions back when D&D 4 came out. We banned D20 based games even then as a boycott of WotC.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 months ago:
I read posts just like yours ten years ago.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 months ago:
The best new use of woke is the woke right.
The author James Lindsay has defined it in similar terms, as “a victimhood-based identity politics” whose “victim groups are whites, Christians, men, and straight people”. He argues that the movement is “roughly intersectional” insofar as it is obsessed with identity politics and a grievance relating to anti-white racism. “Like their counterparts on the Woke Left,” Lindsay writes, “the Woke Right have accepted as fact that there’s a conspiracy against people like them and that their only real hope is to lean into the identity grouping and advocate for collective power under that heading”. In these terms, the “woke right” is a kind of ideological doppelgänger, whose members exhibit the same precisionist and absolutist tendencies of their leftist counterparts.
Pierce Morgan uses it more and more often against right wingers to great effect.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 3 months ago:
I see freifunk networks more rarely nowadays. They also are notoriously slow. Usually the mobile phone network is faster, even in Germany.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 months ago:
Woke is now a synonym for Social Justice warrior.
A person or movement prioritizing moralizing outrage about minor grievances over actual effective societal change.
As my half Nigerian cousin likes to say on issues like white people wearing dreadlocks: “That’s something only white privileged women care about.”
- Comment on i broke 4 months ago:
Allow yourself to feel something first.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 months ago:
Is it that long ago already? I thought they had kept it around. Thank you for updating me.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
We felt poorer, so economists should be lynched!
The contrast between people’s experiences in their everyday lives and what politicians or experts say is important.
If the economy is supposedly doing great but I can afford less and less and my life gets worse, that’s a contradiction.
The USA is moving more to something like the gilded age with more wealth disparity, more suffering for the poor, more violence.
The anti-intellectualism and anti-elitism of the cultural revolution was far more extreme. You are right that there are some similar ideas brewing.
When the political and economic system is no longer delivering for the population, it will turn against the (perceived) leaders. Trump and the right spins this very well by directing the anger against „woke“ liberal academics, foreigners, and away from the billionaires.
The „woke“ elites are also in crisis. The Democratic Party is in shambles.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
often people know that, for example, elections are fraudulent, but they are too scared to say anything
People might vaguely understand that elections don’t produce good outcomes or have systemic bias. That’s then condensed to „elections are rigged“, regardless of the facts and details.
Most people know little about most things. It’s difficult to even have good fundamentals about most things in our complex world. So people will defer to their personal experience and information seeped into their minds by osmosis/exposure.
Things like an economy or political system are extremely complex already and not fully understood even by experts.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 months ago:
Samsung has it own OS on some phones.