It's not surprising and the roots of the problem go back to NT4. In 3.51, there were three separate memory spaces in NT: kernel, user, and GDI where graphics happened. In NT4 they merged kernel and GDI, and we began to get blue screen crashes caused by graphics drivers. These remained the primary cause of blue screens right up until the driver model changed for Vista. Browsers both came into being and got GPU acceleration in between those times, so they had the opportunity to expose bad graphics drivers.

That's not a problem for recognizing microplastics as a hazard, because we already recognize silicates as a hazard. Thanks for your support!

Compared to the rest of the costs of the systems which use it, the helium cost is not a big problem. It's less than the labor cost of keeping the machine ready for use. An MRI uses over 100 MWh a year, the machine costs millions to start with, the personnel cost is hundreds per hour... The machine uses roughly 100-200 liters of helium, which is now $30-50/liter. So $3000 to $10000 for a full fill. Boil-off rates range from 0 to 0.2%/day. A refill occurs every 6-24 months. So we're looking at a max of about $20000/year for the helium, or about 33 1/3 days of personnel costs.

(These numbers were pulled from various obviously AI-authored pieces on MRI refill costs, so they might be fairly bullshit-ish, but since multiple articles were around the same numbers I've used them here anyway.)

By the same token, management clearly either didn't understand or was unwilling to sign off on a meaningful replacement program. For that you don't just install and pray, you study what each department's users are actually doing on a daily basis and then you test the new software to determine a) whether it can actually do those things or not and b) how they are done if so. Part of that for example is to check all the templates being used to see if they will work, which they clearly didn't do here.

Office is literally designed to be hard to emulate, the so-called "standards" are bad jokes which aren't actually standards because you can't actually follow them and get an proper result. They're malicious. Not taking this into account when attempting migration is incompetent.

As I look around I see a mixture of things, some things which would be very difficult to replace, and some things which would be very easy to replace, and some things where they would still need some plastic but they could use a lot less. The rest could be made of wood or metal. Mostly I propose using aluminum because it's extremely recyclable.

Don't be obtuse, companies provide training for office applications through contracted training portals. I've "attended" video trainings on Excel and Word. If they changed to LO tomorrow I'd be fine, but I'd still have to figure out how to do those things again. And some users would not be fine.

Something did change. We stopped stockpiling a reserve, and that reserve has been exhausted. That's two things.

This is so offensively stupid and wrong that it makes me wonder if you are a paid shill for the plastics industry.

Being able to look stuff up on the internet isn't great, it's a basic minimum for being considered an internet user, at which you fail. There are toddlers with more competence than you. (Which explains Slashdot moderation.)

Office doesn't do standards, really. Microsoft's standard OOXML contains numerous statements which basically say "do what Word does here" so the software Microsoft Word is basically part of the standard. In a sane world this would mean that Microsoft would be forced to open source it, but we don't live there.

The rise of the AI companies is also a sign of society falling apart. A healthy society wouldn't put all of its eggs in this basket and allow it to threaten all the pensions.

None of that is how this works. They are creating fake drivers (drivers with fake credentials) to pick up the cargoes. The driver is in on the scam.

The oil problem isn't one problem or one industry, it's our entire way of life.

When you make fuel you get other crap out that's not good for making fuel. We make plastic mostly out of that. So being addicted to oil is being addicted to plastic is being addicted to oil again.

In order to reduce our oil consumption we also have to reduce our use of plastic. The plastics industry is not interested in that. The oil industry is also not interested in that. Either has immense influence, together they are titan.

Thank you so much for letting us know that you're a piece of shit whose opinion is worse than worthless, it was purchased.

IME Scribus starts crashing when you get anywhere near book length. Like around 100 pages it started to explode for me. Their official answer was to carve your document up into smaller pieces. I went back to InDesign immediately.

TBF this was a little while ago so it might not be completely worthless now like it was then