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ok but like. there are two different types of privilege. there's type a "everybody should have this, but some people don't" and type b "nobody should have this, but some people do"

there's having parents who can pay for your application to any college, and then there's having parents who can bribe your way into any college. there's owning your own home, and then there's owning 50 houses and getting rich off hoarding a vital resource. there's not fearing for your life whenever cops are around, and then there's being the cop and being allowed to murder anyone at any time.

idk i just feel like that's an important distinction to make.

disgustinggf

prohaloplayer-deactivated202601

they look so good here

catchymemes

thanos-the-dad-titan

And went off the air because a TEXAS DA they caught unalived himself...

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15592444

detrout

You can say kill yourself this is the murder tits cock penis website

hollowboobtheory

unironically people need to learn to say “they haven’t done anything wrong i just find them annoying”

gummiebun-deactivated20230501

I personally think people need to understand that if someone hasn’t wronged you or anyone else, you should NOT dislike them. You don’t have to like them; just remain neutral.

hollowboobtheory

nope! this is the kind of attitude the leads to you picking apart every little thing a person does digging through their past for dirt and problematizing everything about them, exaggerating harm, assuming the worst about them, putting words in their mouth, etc, to justify the fact that you simply don’t vibe with them when the truth is that you will not get along with everybody you meet in life and it’s extremely possible to be civil to someone you don’t like. you don’t have to be friends with everybody its fine. it’s certainly nicer than falsely accusing them of some heinous shit rather than admit that you’re not some Disney princess who’s never had an unfairly mean thought in her life and loves everybody and sings with little birdies and is never bitchy or irritable. sometimes you get annoyed for stupid reasons and understanding that your personal feelings about a person aren’t necessarily related to their morals or worthiness as a human being is the first step to being a civil adult.

slimetony

Not to be vague but not again please

paladitos

it could be worse. i could be a sophomore in high school

paladitos

if youre a sophomore in high school just know that youre literally at rock bottom right now i promise it gets better from there

micro-usb-deactivated20230625

froggribs

babbhad

Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.

If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.

The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.

gun-to-ya-head

birdenjoyer

question: what if we pirate it

commandrogyne

Nope, no press coverage, no interest, no fandom, no nothing. You're not taking money away from the studio, youre crossing the picket line. Doesnt matter how interesting it looks, the livlihoods of thousands that are being weighed against it are worth more.

lharotto

do you actually not like reciving gifts or did you just grow up being told how expensive it was to raise you?

and now, anytime anyone spends any money on you,you fell guilty

blackfoxsposts

The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

fangirltothefullest

Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.

thephilosophersapprentice

THIS

ryanthedemiguy

"Why is pirating going back up?!"

This. This is why. People don't mind paying a high price for software if it's only the once, or every 4-5 years.

But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don't?

That's why people are pirating software.

fallintosanity

It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).

However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available.

Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.

corbinite

Or just download libre office or one of the MANY open source word clones

penrosesun

Yeah, seriously guys - don't bother with Word at all. It's sad, over-priced crap, even for the cost of a $50 one-time purchase. I know free office software used to have a bad reputation for crappy UI and for missing fairly essential features, but that hasn't been true for years now.

These days, unless you're an absolute Visual Basic fiend, LibreOffice is probably a better choice for your word processing needs than Word is. OnlyOffice is pretty good too. Heck, if you're willing to go in on a Nextcloud server with some friends, you can even do real-time collaboration like in Google Docs, but in a full-fat office suite instead of Google Drive's dinky mini tools.

Here's a comprehensive guide to LibreOffice (and tbh, office tools in general) for any of you who are hesitant to take a peak outside of the M$ bubble. Seriously, it could not be easier to switch. This stuff is free. It's open-source. By using it you will be actively supporting and uplifting the free software movement and weakening the monopolistic hold big tech companies have on all of us. It's basically the sustainable community garden of the software world.

And to push back on the idea that buying Word will "make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions"?

No.

No, it won't.

You know how I know it won't?

BECAUSE IT DIDN'T.

We've all been dutifully paying for Word since the 90s - through our school licenses, through our workplaces, bundled with Excel, doesn't matter! We took one look at the labor-of-love free alternatives, decided that they couldn't meet our needs and that we weren't interested in waiting for them or financially supporting them, and so we paid for Word instead. And what do you think Microsoft learned from this? The same thing Microsoft has always learned, of course: when you're a monopoly, you can force any damn thing down your users throats.

You want to make very clear to Microsoft that you're not going to take their bullshit anymore? Then stop using their crappy, overpriced software. Period.

No amount of one-time purchases will ever convince Microsoft that they can't squeeze you for even more via a subscription if, when push comes to shove, you blink first because you're just not willing to ever walk away from their products entirely. You want to show Microsoft that this shit is unacceptable? Start by taking your business elsewhere.

prismatic-bell

I use LibreOffice.

It is FANTASTIC.

ferrousferrule

But is it compatible? I use office not because I like it but because all of the businesses I associate use it, and I need them to be able to open my files.

prismatic-bell

Yes sir/ma’am distinguished hooligan, it is!

punk-bot-deactivated20240519

I can confirm that Open Office and Libreoffice are both awesome, open-source alternatives to MS Office.

penrosesun

Slight correction: Open Office is currently an abandoned project that is no longer receiving updates. There's nothing inherently wrong with it other than the fact that hasn't been being actively worked on for nine years, but it's one of the only free office tools that I wouldn't recommend that people use, simply because the support for it is really lacking, and it's missing a lot of the newer features that other open source office suites have these days. I suspect that the only reason people are still recommending it is name recognition – LibreOffice is actually a fork of Open Office, and it's the version of the software which is being actively maintained. If you want to use a program based on Open Office, please use LibreOffice; I promise that it is a much better experience.

walks-the-ages

okay, long post is already long but I have no idea where you got the idea that Open Office has been 'abandoned for 9 years' -- it literally last updated February 27th 2023 (4 months ago as of me typing this :

Excerpt for those not wanting to navigate away from tumblr:

Monday February 27, 2023

Announcing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14

Wakefield, DE - 27 February 2023 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.

And even before Februry '23's update, it had been getting twice-yearly updates since 2021 and was updated once a year before that starting in 2013. you can view this here:

Excerpt for those not wanting to navigate away from tumblr:

Apache OpenOffice 4.x

Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0 (2023, exact date TBD) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 (February 27th, 2023) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 (July 22nd, 2022) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12 (May 4th, 2022) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 (October 6th, 2021) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10 (May 4th, 2021) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9 (February 7th, 2021) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 (November 10th, 2020) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 (September 21st, 2019) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 (November 18th, 2018) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 (December 30th, 2017) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 (October 19th, 2017) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 (October 12th, 2016) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 (October 28th, 2015) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 (August 21st, 2014) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (April 29th, 2014) Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 (October 1st, 2013) Apache OpenOffice 4.0.0 (July 23rd, 2013)

Apache OpenOffice 3.4

Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (August 23rd, 2012) additional languages Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Polish, Basque, Asturian and Scottish Gaelic (January 30th, 2013) Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 (May 8th, 2012)

@penrosesun were you using the official Openoffice.org website for your downloads or.....?

I'm not mad I'm just... baffled

and don't want misinformation to spread,

this is all easy information to find on the official open office website, they have all of their releases logged on the second link I provided as far back as the original 2002 version 1.0.1.

Edit: apparently the *original* open office that was run by Oracle is the defunct one, and the one by Apache (what I've linked above and used for years) is one of the successors and I guess a kind of cousin to Libreoffice. I'll download Libreoffice when the internets fully back on my computer and do a comparison.

penrosesun

No, unfortunately, Apache OpenOffice is defunct too – Oracle OpenOffice died in ~2011, then they dumped it in Apache's lap, and Apache stopped actively working on it in 2014. There have been "updates" since then, but most of them are either a) necessary but extremely late security patches, or b) literally totally useless not-even-really-an-update updates. I talk more about this here. Ironically enough, I made the original correction specifically because I was frustrated with people spreading misinformation about Apache OpenOffice still being under active development – all this is extremely well-known in the FOSS community, but weirdly unknown outside of it, and it sucks that people who aren't just... you know... getting LibreOffice packaged with a Linux distribution and not thinking twice about it are instead getting misdirected to Apache OpenOffice, downloading it because "it looks like it's still being actively maintained" and then having a terrible time with it because it hasn't had a major update since 2014 and has comparatively terrible compatibility with Word.

walks-the-ages

Okay, good to know! I'm downloading Libreoffice now, I'd never even heard about it until this post, the only reason I knew about Open Office is our old online school had us use it for homework

micro-usb-deactivated20230625

frightstricken-deactivated20260

sometimes 'modernized' retellings of fairytales and folklore really are worse. and come from a place of disrespect rather than appreciation of where stories come from. i don't think we need another edgy cinderella story that ignores the fact that the original is essentially wish fulfillment for people in desperate situations. why do you want cinderella to be punished for her optimism and hope exactly, if not to be edgy and kind of annoying about fairy tales

skopostheorie

I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option

skopostheorie

Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you're in the trenches.

skopostheorie

sunnytastic

i don't think any moment in media will ever make me feel as emotional as when mac is sobbing in god's arms and she goes "it's okay, it's okay, it's okay"