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Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.Two … |
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@cstross I'm testing LO for highly formatted tech ebooks, and rocketing tow… |
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A third reason for ditching Office365 is that I have had a hate on for Microsof… |
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@cstross I can't recommend LibreOffice enough! It's intuitive, reliable… |
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@cstross FWIW, NextCloud's self-hosted Google docs clone uses Libre office … |
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@cstross Nice, congrats! Do you use other apps that require Windows or are you … |
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@cstross Another good reason: Microsoft stopped offering email to the Internati… |
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@cstross OMG, I lost work recently bc i didn’t know that autosave being on me… |
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@heartofcoyote @cstross Rather than skilled and knowledgeable engineers at Micr… |
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@cstross great news that Libre Office is now good enough for your needs.Well do… |
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@cstross I opted for the "Don't have co-pilot" option, paying les… |
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@cstross > As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just te… |
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@cstross I wonder is law firms are gearing up for lawsuits around copilot or si… |
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@cstross Also, genocide? |
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@cstross LibreOffice is mostly good enough indeed!I strive at using as much ope… |
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@cstross Snap! Last year, after many years of using LibreOffice but keeping a M… |
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@cstross I've just read Thurrotts book and reminded myself what an absolute… |
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@cstross wow this is 🙏terrific🙏 news—I hadn’t been brave enough so fa… |
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@Niall @cstross let's not allow Microsoft to hoover. Call the horrorsuite M… |
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@Dtraslerwriting @cstross had to go through the whole cancellation process to g… |
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I am in the process of migrating to Nextcloud for my cloud stuff, using a serve… |
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@cstross I stopped using MS software when they sent me an amended privacy/user … |
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@cstross Did the same for the same reasons just a couple of months back (he sai… |
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@cstross I really want to clutch my pearls and gasp in boomerish elder-GenX at … |
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@ApostateEnglishman @cstross is the LibreOffice Excel replacement able to work … |
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@cstross So are you writing in libre office now? Or in something else then impo… |
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@cstross Yeay, celebrate 🕺 🥂 . Noew if only I could convince my employer … |
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@mwl @cstross we need a forum or something to help people move piece by peice a… |
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@heartofcoyote @cstross Hint: that document that you think didn't autosave … |
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@andytiedye @cstross I'm gonna deploy nextcloud on an old desktop and use t… |
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@fluffykittycat @andytiedye @cstross You can expose NextCloud directly to the i… |
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@cstross FWIW LibeOffice has never let me down in 20+ years (counting when it w… |
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@ivor @cstross Wow. Just scanning the table of contents of that book brought ba… |
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@Fabis_flying_fotos @cstross I haven't (yet) had any need to use it for tha… |
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@ApostateEnglishman @Fabis_flying_fotos @cstross Depends on your definition of … |
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@cstross Was going to suggest embedding a funeral dirge to mark rhw occasion, b… |
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@cstross I got sick of Copilot turning itself back on, so I ditched 365 earlier… |
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@Shivaekul @ApostateEnglishman @cstross So the macros programmed will work? �… |
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@ErosBlog @cstross I'm Gen z and I agree with you on this. It's just VS… |
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@cstross I had been trying to warm up with them since the end of Ballmer’s te… |
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@cstross what the fuck. I'm glad to be a libreoffice user |
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@cstross Microsoft is pushing their copilot too hard. I sometimes use Outlook W… |
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@ApostateEnglishman I have been using StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice since r… |
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@cstross Nothing like a rapidly expanding userbase to force devs to listen to n… |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I wish they would fi… |
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@cstross FOSS has made great strides over the past decade, compared to the cons… |
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@cstross ... also... Microsoft just announced a new partnership with and suppor… |
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@mwl @cstross Not sure it's that much relevant, but LaTeX support in the Li… |
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@gemelen @cstross Sadly, LaTeX will not work. Been there, done that.https://mwl… |
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@tbortels I write in @scrivenerapp — a dedicated novelist's tool, but wit… |
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@Frederik_Borgesius @cstross and the uncertainties about what happens when the … |
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@Fabis_flying_fotos @Shivaekul @cstross Yes, thanks Luke! 👊 |
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@cstross libre office works great |
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@Fabis_flying_fotos @ApostateEnglishman @cstross Possibly, Libre office uses Li… |
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@dakkar LibreOffice has been able to handle change tracking for many, many year… |
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@zakalwe @[email protected] @[email protected] try Only Of… |
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@gyokusai What I did: saved a working copy of the CEM. Opened in LibreOffice, w… |
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@Luettdeern @zakalwe @ApostateEnglishman I have VERY LITTLE use for Office soft… |
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@gemelen @mwl I have zero use for equation writing and LaTeX is absolutely horr… |
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@alessandro I don't use Windows. (I work on a Mac, because Scrivener. Linux… |
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@cstross @gemelen I could, in theory, benefit from LaTex for super-highly-forma… |
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@cstross Point 2 is an excellent reason for all authors to be wary of Microsoft… |
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@cstross Excellent. I put Office 2024 on my old pc, and run it without a Micro$… |
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I mean, I'd guess if it wasn't for macros and plugins, they might alrea… |
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@mwl Does Bookvault work with old PDFs? I tend to find them pretty good, but I … |
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@jackyan @cstross @gemelen You need to use the 2001 or 2003 PDF standards, so y… |
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@mwl Just to clarify, was this answering my Bookvault question (in which case, … |
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@cstross OnlyOffice is also a good app to use if LibreOffice gets too squirrelly |
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@cstross There is also the possibility that your M365 account might get disable… |
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@fluffykittycat @mwl @cstross privacyguides.org can be a good resource for avoi… |
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@heartofcoyote (not so) Fun Fact: Microsoft Teams uses some sort of email thing… |
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@cstrossI strongly disagree, but would suggest using Markdown, e.g. Pandoc. Tha… |
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@zakalwe @cstross @ApostateEnglishman There's a PublishAs XHTML extension … |
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@ApostateEnglishman @cstross I suspect LibreOffice has also benefited from fund… |
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@Shivaekul @Fabis_flying_fotos @ApostateEnglishman I'm not a proficient spr… |
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@cstross Did you switch to Linux at the same time? I did it recently because I … |
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@glennsills @cstross I recently learned there is VS Codium if you want VS Code … |
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@cstross @gemelen @mwl Scribus looks nice as a "proper" book formatti… |
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@timo21 @cstross The major security issues of the newest enshittified version o… |
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@cstross I'm a Johnny come lately. Only switched to Linux in mid 1998. Star… |
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@cstross autosave being broken is major enshitification. |
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@cstross I'm gearing up to start using LibreOffice instead of Google Docs a… |
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@jernej__s @cstross Wow. SMH. So we should just turn that off. Thanks! |
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@cstross @gemelen @mwl Just out of curiosity, how is LaTeX horrible for everyth… |
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@ApostateEnglishman @cstross and in those 5000 or 5 millions there are some dev… |
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@glennsills Dude, do you *know* my history with Linux? |
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@oneiros @gemelen @mwl Markdown is, oddly, what I use for casual writing: it&#… |
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@Fabis_flying_fotos @ApostateEnglishman @cstross I'll worry about the comp… |
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@cstross Good for you for taking back control over your tools of trade!If you h… |
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@cstross Also,4. Why pay for proprietary formats and corporate spyware when fre… |
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@ReggieHere Because I'm a business, supplying other businesses IN ORDER TO … |
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@cstross More than fair comment |
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@jackyan The Bookvault question |
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@gemelen @mwl @cstross if the editor does it in word, it's the editor you … |
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@ignaziop1977 @gemelen @cstross An author's ability to produce LaTeX is not… |
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@USBTypeSTeve OnlyOffice is owned by a private company in a foreign jurisdictio… |
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@cstross the local app had nothing to do with the cloud. |
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@ingram @cstross @gemelen @mwl Currently using Scribus to publish our local com… |
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@Slash909uk @ingram @cstross @gemelen again, not the problem https://mwl.io/fa… |
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@cstross @oneiros @gemelen @mwl I attended a talk by @pluralistic over a decade… |
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Nope. I only started following you on Mastodon and I didn't see it mentione… |
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@mwl 😯 wow, that's terrible @cstross @gemelen |
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@fluffykittycat @mwl @cstross A bunch of us have been discussing this for quite… |
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@cstross Unasked for advice: I've been using SoftMaker Office since 2012 an… |
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Post #AuLdSEnqmWe5FoGHyq by [email protected] |
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@cstross @gyokusai regarding this: one common issue in formatting mishaps is th… |
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Post #AuLdSEwiFZjbhIPMnI by [email protected] |
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@joe_vinegar @cstross @gyokusai ah that explains past mishaps |
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Post #AuLtc3mODiw1EAHfeK by [email protected] |
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@Fabis_flying_fotos you got a totally different category of problem when you go… |
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Post #AuMnH0Qz3dVQCioDjs by [email protected] |
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@cstross @rpbook Copilot in everything and the software's need to go online… |
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Post #AulAGFkRb2rG9JYkz2 by [email protected] |
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@cstross nice! I just dumped Microsoft Windows for Linux Mint. I’m writing my… |
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Post #AumN79lzw1nTZfEtAu by [email protected] |
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@dmarti @cstross Indeed! |
