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Comment Re:How on earth do you watch news on social media (Score 1) 148

You pick a media source you enjoy that aligns with your views, like a YouTube channel.
That way, you only hear things that suit you and won't challenge your fundamental mindset.
No one will question you if you think the earth is flat, that Kubrick filmed Armstrong in1969, or that the CIA put microphones in the COVID vaccines..."

Comment Re:Heh (Score 1) 281

Back in the day, I remember the local Bell main switching center being a very non-descript, completely unmarked mysterious building.

I imagine that also was for security reasons.

Yeah, the enemy would never guess that a large office building completely devoid of windows might possibly be a telephone switch.

Comment LibreOffice improved (Score 5, Informative) 213

Some people are surely still holding on to the impression from a few years ago that LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) were very buggy.
These days, LibreOffice is completely usable and can serve as a replacement for MS Office (even if its design isn't always as slick). It also takes a little time to get used to.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 276

It has been a while since I've used Word, but I remember it was really good at propagating tiny changes through a document that made it important that you keep an extra copy around because some seemed to have no easy way back to what you wanted.

This "feature" actually saved me quite a bit of work at a job I had a few years back. The documentation people were so afraid that anyone who was not a full-time Word expert would irrecoverably screw up the corporate branding (IOW, formatting) of their docs, they didn't want developers to directly edit them. So I was often able to get away with emailing a quick text summary to them, and they had to do all the fidgety proof reading, formatting, etc.

I don't know how they managed to get their jobs done, given that they had no real source control and mainly juggled each update amongst themselves over email and random impoossible-to-find folders on Sharepoint.

Since all the docs had the same basic layout and they were mainly trying to make them look consistent with whatever corporate branding was being promulgated that week, it could easily have been done by writing them in "markdown" and having a script that converted them directly to PDF. Or maybe even learn LaTeX. Then the docs could all be maintained and diffed in github like all the other project artifacts. I didn't even bring that up because I knew that their heads would explode.

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