sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 10 hours ago:
Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men Men!
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 10 hours ago:
…I thought the majority of Americans were Protestant?
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 20 hours ago:
Big
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 20 hours ago:
If you use Windows, yeah, LibreOffice doesn’t look all that nice. Setting it to “tabbed” view mode makes it a bit better (try that first) Image
but the icons are still pretty small with little padding (on Windows at least. On Linux it is perfectly fine, so I use LibreOffice!). OnlyOffice will be more padded and has bigger icons than LibreOffice in Windows, yeah. I think it would work.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 21 hours ago:
I thought the point of this was to be positive, and not be super pessimistic?
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 21 hours ago:
It would make those documentaries that read out the boring legal documents far more interesting!
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 21 hours ago:
Fair enough, actually.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 21 hours ago:
Well, I don’t think if you know this, but I’m pretty sure that name is already taken. New Mexico is already a U.S. state!
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 21 hours ago:
amazing
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 day ago:
- all the stuff in our world is super cool!
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 day ago:
I mean, the world is like really big. People like big things. It’s in our nature to think big means better
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- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 day ago:
If not the national governments condemning them, PEOPLE are angry. They are mad, and they are making a statement. Protests against horrible things are everywhere, even with crackdowns by governments that are sucking the toes of orange Cheeto dust man (with none of the cheesiness. Definitely the dryness and powderyness though) the people still want their opinions heard, and they still take action! That should be proof of the humanity of, well, humanity, how people can fight for the rights, freedoms, etc. of other people!
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 day ago:
Also, could I rant about human rights actually became a thing? It’s mad that everyone set aside their selfish interests and agreed not to do X horrible things to each other. Of course, there are assholes who don’t care about human rights, but generally the world at large condemns these assholes for being horrible people. We have agreed as an international community not to recklessly not to go to war, the nation state as a concept is a thing (rather than a mess of conflict for every inch of the world, most countries have accepted each other as sovereign nations and respect their right to exist), international aid for developing nations for no reason other than to be a nice person (although you could argue some countries do it for other reasons, but in either case, people in need are getting the medical care, food, shelter, and all sorts of other essentials! That’s AMAZING, good job us humans!), we have agreed not to use our most powerful weapons to obliterate each other for most part (see nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons), the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS THE MOST AMAZING HUMAN COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE EVER, IT’S SO AWESOME, PEOPLE AREN’T BLOWING EACH OTHER UP IN SPACE, WE HAVE AGREED TO USE IT FOR THE GOOD OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITY, we have agreed as an international community to create organisations to handle international disputes, international aid, researching medicine and science, preservation of historical sites, discussion, ecological conservation and all sorts (most notably, the U.N., where countries big and small sit as equals where they can discuss issues, disputes, and crisises. The U.N. also has many branching organisations specialising in all sorts of other stuff!), the Red Cross/Crescent and various other NGOs made of international volunteers helping people simply for the sake of HELPING PEOPLE, even in zones of war and conflict, I could go on! Humanity has recognised that other humans should be treated, well, humanely. In the modern age, mass killings of populations, reckless war, intentionally burning down forests, etc. are unthinkably evil when they were common practice in ancient civilisations. There are still some assholes who do horrible, truly horrible things (see Israhell doing all their “pre-emptive self defenseman” that somehow requires the mass starvation of Palestinians + denial of international aid for mentioned starving Palestinians, ICE in the U.S. terrorising communities, Russia kidnapping children in Ukraine, neo-Nazis doing Nazi bullshit in Australia, Europe, and everywhere else, but even so, the world condemns these horrible people and they denounce their actions and horribleness)
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 day ago:
There are plenty of great news in this world we live in. Modern science, medicine, and technology has never been better!
We have giant telescopes, humongous particle accelerators, all sorts of different satellites, and so much more that is helping to further the collective human knowledge of the world around us! We know so many different unique and beautiful forms of life large and small, so many interstellar objects captured on telescopes with stunning clarity (see JWST, Vera Rubin Observatory, Hubble…), we can predict everything from the weather tomorrow to when will that star will go supernova to when you will be able to see a solar eclipse to when the earth will shake and when the waves will tower over cities (and we promptly evacuate/prepare civilians before that happens, which would have never been possible before without modern science!)
Less people are dying every day, less people are suffering every day. Antibiotics, vaccinations, X-rays, MRI machines, and a far better understanding of how the human body function all contribute to a healthier, happier life. In the middle ages, dense populations had no proper plumbing, no modern medicine, water contamination was rampant, garbage and human shit covered the streets, farmers had animals that shit and pissed everywhere, a complete hygiene nightmare. In the modern age, we’ve got regular health checkups, treating illnesses before they get out of hand, proper good medicine to fight against the microscopic invaders, we have garbage disposal, it has been widely accepted that shitting in the streets isn’t something that is very hygienic, mental health is getting recognised more and more, showers, washing your hands, and brushing your teeth is now common practice in most countries, we are getting closer than ever to defeating the tyrannical monsters that plagued human civilisations for millennia, life expectancy is at at an all-time high (many are living to over 100 due to improved medicine, good diets, and good exercise!), and the dangers of alcohol, drugs, smoking, and all that is now general knowledge.
Moore’s law has been followed since it was first suggested, everyone knows has a supercomputer that can run trillions of operations per second with magical scratch resistance glass, a method of storing charge that can store power for said supercomputer for an entire day or more (especially with silicon carbon, phones are now reaching multi day battery which is insane!), digital media lets people create content, enjoy content, and modify content at rates never before seen. Displays can display images near-retina clarity with fantastic colours and impressive brightness, speakers can get LOUD and surround sound is one of the most amazing forms of media humanity has ever produced, VR lets you experience digital worlds and creations like never before, 3D printing lets people create functional items at home, online retailers make it ridiculously easy to get food, aforementioned supercomputers and other super technologies, healthcare, tools, clothing, and everything else!
The world is great, it is amazing!
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 day ago:
Both OnlyOffice and LibreOffice (Writer) would work. The main differences are that OnlyOffice has all the tools (documents, presentations, and spreadsheets) while LibreOffice separates them. LibreOffice also has an additional two tools: Draw (kind of like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape) and Base (database stuff).
Generally documents that are exported to and from MS Office will be better when working with OnlyOffice. If you aren’t doing a bunch of formatting that is absolutely critical (or no formatting at all), I wouldn’t worry about using LibreOffice. LibreOffice, for me, works well, but sometimes page break can happen a line or two earlier/later depending on how images, tables, headings, etc. are rendered, which is slightly annoying. In “Impress” (presentations), whenever I made one object transparent, ALL objects became transparent when viewing from MS Office, which was strange. That’s my experience, and it seems that other people have had similar formatting problems with LibreOffice too.
Another thing that’s different is that, on Windows, LibreOffice doesn’t look very nice. On Linux, it looks fine (I selected “Tabbed”), but on Windows, I’m not sure if they’re using some other graphical package or something, but the top toolbar is all squished together with no wiggle room, even if you select “Tabbed”. One other thing, LibreOffice uses Qt so it will work with those themes in Linux (e.g. In KDE Plasma, which is what I run, LibreOffice will match with the system theme!)
For a Linux-specific thing, it seems that LibreOffice doesn’t really like Wayland much, and was chugging and running at a jogging snail’s pace (certainly not a fast snail, this one), so I had to manually set the shortcut to run LibreOffice in XWayland or something like that anyways.
One thing I like about LibreOffice is that there’s a few more plugins available than OnlyOffice. For example, LanguageTool has a LibreOffice plugin but don’t think there’s one for OnlyOffice. LibreOffice also has like a bazillion different settings to change how everything is rendered, you can change the order of the items in every toolbar and menu, I think Writer has a basic Java IDE built in too? Basically, LibreOffice is more customisable and configurable than OnlyOffice, and by a lot. OnlyOffice tries to be a little simpler than LibreOffice and I guess is more “dumbed down” with fewer buttons and settings?
TLDR: LibreOffice has five separate programs, OnlyOffice has three in one. Files exported from OnlyOffice generally render with correct formatting on MS Office (and vice versa), the same may not be true for LibreOffice depending on the content of your documents. LibreOffice Windows isn’t nice (but looks better on Linux), LibreOffice doesn’t play nice with Wayland, LibreOffice has more plugins, options, etc.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 day ago:
Fortunately, the battery is not puffy and swollen up. No protruding bumps can be seen.
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- Comment on On Monoculture 1 day ago:
I hope this was an intentional pun, that’s a good one
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 day ago:
Unfortunately, English is not an easy language to learn for people who never grew up with it. I speak from experience, many of my friends do not speak English as a first language and some of the “quirks” of English are really really stupid and make it unnecessarily difficult to learn…
- Comment on How to set the Lenovo Precision Pen 2 to pairing mode? 2 days ago:
Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to work no matter how long I hold it for…
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- Comment on Too much seriousness in the world, which Wacky Wheels character would you main? 1 week ago:
Plushies are indeed very huggable
- Comment on Too much seriousness in the world, which Wacky Wheels character would you main? 1 week ago:
Peggles maybe, birds are cool
- Comment on Too much seriousness in the world, which Wacky Wheels character would you main? 1 week ago:
TLDR: IKEA (the Swedish furniture company) sold a shark (blahaj) plushie that people compared to the trans flag (blue, pink, and white) and it kind of stuck. Pretty interesting.
- Comment on Anyone using Revolt? 1 week ago:
I believe that the world would be better if more things were named after cute animals
- Comment on CasaOS/ZimaOS (or similar) vs just Debian experience? 1 week ago:
Personally, I’m using Debian in my little laptop server thing and it runs pretty great. There’s a bunch of help, guides, tutorials, etc. online about Debian (and lots for Ubuntu, most of which will work on Debian) meaning it was really easy for me to get set up!
- Comment on Good FOSS design software for beginners? 2 weeks ago:
Besides FreeCAD and Blendar, there’s also OpenSCAD (never used it myself, but it sounds pretty cool. Programming 3D models, I want to try it soon. Everyone says it has a high learning curve though)
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 2 weeks ago:
Ice is less dense then water due to extensive hydrogen bonding, lattice of hydrogen bonds form when water freezes. Chemistry!
