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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
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Yup. I haven’t bought any new Office keys since like 2020, and I never will. Keep the CoPilot away from my thoughts, geesh. I feel like a schizo when I use them.
I’m on Mac Office Business 2019. I just found out that blocking Microsoft traffic on my firewall, stops the ability to save doc as PDF. I installed Collabora Office on OpenCloud.