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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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I wish non-tech people would get into open source. You should post your crochet pattern on github. I want to see your wip novel on a webpage running Wikimedia.

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Maths doesn't need applications to be interesting

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So long as economic systems incentivise unethical behaviour, the effect of ethics education on society will remain minimal.

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ARE YOU TODAY’S DATE?

BECAUSE YOURE 10/10

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Seven colours!?!!?

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uh, “Poynting vector”?

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This design could be improved in a few minor ways:

1. The Android/iOS switch should probably be a software implementation rather than a physical switch, to avoid accidentally hitting it.

2. The external antenna is redundant. Smartphones already have an antenna: that's how they transmit wireless signals. Same with the radio.

3. The hand strap position could be improved connecting it to the bottom of the phone

4. They should add a DVD drive

5. Add a microphone jack in addition to the headphone jack

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

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"Theory is haunted"

-"What?"

-cocks gun: "Theory is haunted"

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Suddenly PID control seems a lot less scary. Comforting, even.

So you people like convoluted diagrams, too?

Here ya go, filthy

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Why not have prices on a log scale?

everything should cost one dollar, ten dollars, or one hundred dollars. a drinky drink is one dollar. a t shirt is ten dollars. rent is one hundred. i might be convinced to allow one thousand dollars for some very big purchases like a house. i get it, you're running a business. i'm not unreasonable.

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Hi, hey, hello,

Did you know, the letters of the Greek alphabet are considered words by the scrabble dictionary?

That’s right! Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, and all of your favorites from math class could help YOU win some family scrabble games this winter.

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Trick or treat!

I'll go for treat.

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you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing