One pothole and it’s done for
One pothole and it’s done for
People using carriage returns as paragraph breaks 😭😭😭
I’d agree with this. When I first started using Excel in school and university, I’d follow the instructions and not really know why I was doing what I was doing.
But then, having to work with Excel at work and make it do new shit, the penny dropped in my head and I understood how spreadsheets worked.
I use spreadsheets for heaps of things now, even if I don’t need to use formulas. Excel has some weird idiosyncrasies but it’s a good product overall. It’s not as bad as Word, which most people use incorrectly.
Regardless of how you interpret the statistics, I think that this is a sign that the long vexed problem of software distribution for Linux has been significantly improved. Not quite solved, but for most desktop apps this is fantastic news.
I’ve started using Tree Style Tabs in Firefox and really like it. Maybe vertical tabs aren’t so bad?
This is slightly unrelated, but I’ve been slowly moving to Linux from windows for a while. I haven’t made the full plunge yet, but here’s my biggest strategy:
Use as many apps on windows as you can on Linux.
I’m using Okular, Ghostwriter, Libreoffice, Cider, etc. every month or so, another app is moved across.
Then, I make the switch and all my apps are there as I’m used to them.
If you have the room, you can often buy these second hand for a bargain from colleges etc. They’re built like tanks and you can wash almost anything inside them. When they do break, laundry operators try to DIY so there are videos everywhere on how to do repairs.
Needs collab features somehow 🥲
Thanks for this one! I’ll be giving it a go in my next project
I wrote my thesis in LaTeX, which is very unusual for my discipline. Now that I’m done with that, everything we’re doing it’s collaborative Word docs. Collaboration features in 365 have been transformative. (Remembering the dark old days of emailing the Word doc around like a hot potato.)
I’m very used to Word and can get it to do some great stuff that most people don’t even know about, but I wouldn’t touch it for something over 20,000 words.
As for LaTeX, I was fine once I got a good template going. Writing one sentence per line is a fantastic way to draft. But there are some fine tuning things that I remember took up a lot of time that I would have had no problem fixing in Word. I distinctly remember trying to get tables to look right when you had paragraphs or dot points in cells.
Oh, and that one reference whose URL refused to break in the line and instead just went off the page. I never found a fix for that.
Go to overleaf.com and say goodbye to a chunk of your weekend. 😉
I often use fields, so I have to go back to desktop Word eventually to add them in. 🥲
Users only use a fraction of the feature set but everyone uses a different fraction 😂
How good are VMs at booting a physical partition?
We need more browser engines, especially those that are under NFP ownership. WebKit and Chromium have become too dominant.
I’ve had success with Focalboard and noticed nobody is using it here! Should I look at alternatives?
YouTube awareness ads some dystopian black mirror shit
Me: how many applications have you got installed? SimplyMepis: Yes.
Wasn’t the point of IPv6 to remove the need for CGNAT?
Confidential projects, etc. amirite?
FHS is an absolute dumpster fire that would never be dreamed up in this day and age