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by ipcress_file 1y ago
I bought Softmaker Office last year. The Textmaker word processor is better than LibreOffice Writer. It's more MS Office compatible, so I don't get complaints about formatting issues from co-workers.
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by ipcress_file 1y ago
Given that Office ran on my 486 and Word and Excel did everything back then that I still need them to do today, a slow startup time on modern hardware is ridiculous. Office should be modular with a lean core and extensions for those who nee
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by ipcress_file 1y ago
My wife and I moved our stuff across Canada -- from Alberta to Nova Scotia -- by mail. That's when I found out about the "monotainer," a giant palletized wire box that they fill with items heading to a common destination. Our
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by ipcress_file 1y ago
I don't know quite when it started to happen, but changing and/or eliminating the default Office keyboard shortcuts in the last few iterations has really irked me.
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by ipcress_file 1y ago
Where has this been all my life? This is a special kind of sad, poetic Zen.
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
Is there something that makes this two month old article particularly relevant today? It looks like China is now matching the US tariffs.
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
Of course I noticed the statement that students have always been transactional. I agree with it. I don't think my students are unusual. Perhaps the situation in Canada is better than wherever you live.
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
Yes, students are generally transactional. So give them a quiz on the reading and then start your discussion. It's been working for me for 25 years. My students were great at the beginning of my career and they're still great now.
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
I use Start11 on my work computer. It allows me to resurrect a lot of the features that I liked on earlier versions of Windows. Their software is also extremely stable.
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
Was that a C64? My VIC-20 had about a tenth of that!
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
The auto-save in Google Docs is undoubtedly better, but it was possible to set an auto-save interval in minutes on Word 6.0 for Windows 3.1. Back then, Word's auto-save updated the file that you were working on rather than creating a s
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
I don't mind re-purchasing software if it ages out gracefully. I recently bought a (non-subscription) copy of Softmaker Office. If I have to buy a newer version ten years from now, that's okay. It's got better file compatibil
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
Peak UI design in cars hit around the 1980s. All that's needed are a small number of physical controls: headlights, turn signals, wipers, heat/AC, etc. Anything more than that should work with voice command -- or it doesn't b
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by ipcress_file 2y ago
I'm a historian, so the work is different, but the overall theme of the responses here resonates with me: read. That's how you find the issues and pieces of evidence that have been neglected, the controversies in your field, and l
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Thank you for that explanation. Now I understand why the home-grown versions of the same tomatoes are so different!
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
My experience is that contemporary varieties of tomatoes grown at home are much better than those grown by the big producers. I'm not sure why, but our tomatoes are always red all the way through. The ones from the store are often whit
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Definitely a fair comment. I didn't mean to imply that I'd attempted to grow all of the heirlooms out there!
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I'd like to try one, but I'd limit my expectations. My wife and I stumbled upon a local group selling heirloom tomato plants a couple of years ago. We grew a few and soon realized why they became heirlooms. The nicest thing that c
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
And the actual amount of work done for that wage is proportionate. Don't you just love economics?
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I remember the webOS iTunes fiasco. This kind of thing isn't worth the waste of your time.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I guess you have to assume that any message in transit over a public network is public. Of course, you can use something like PGP to encrypt messages before sending them, provided that the recipient has your key. I know of a few people who
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
If you're going to do this, look for a proven stable Nextcloud solution. I followed one of the many guides on the web a couple of years ago to install Nextcloud on Debian, which worked, but the first major update broke it. I couldn&#x2
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
As the owner of a Brother manual typewriter, I can confirm that this was their business model from the beginning. They made the same cheap, tolerable typewriter with different bodies for almost 30 years. The only innovation they ever made w
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I can confirm the "won't gripe" part. Mine has been disconnected from Wifi for the last four years. It's been a great TV.
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Tuta (formerly Tutanota) denies claim it has intelligence ties(cp24.com)
80 points by ipcress_file 3y ago|77 comments
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
The purveyors of this kind of reporting want you to blame your aging neighbours, not the exploiting classes who actually legislate the system.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
The NFB made a great documentary called Wuxing People's Commune that doesn't appear to be available on the site. It's available on some other sites and is worth watching if you get the opportunity.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I use Calibre regularly to strip DRM and convert books from one format to another. For reading, I like epr, but epy is apparently an upgrade. https://github.com/wustho/epr https://github.com/wustho&#x2F
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Write had an interesting cursor with the vertical pipe line and something like an asterisk. I used it for a while on Windows 3.1 before someone set me up with a copy of MS Office 4.3.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I'm in southern BC and my AQI is 401. Burnt embers are falling on the lawn and driveway. It's a lovely day.

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