Yeah, I've dumped all mikroshite from my devices for FOSS software. Only my work laptop has it and I never do anything personal with that. Libre Office, Thunderbird, Notesnook. Also considering Obsidian and Joplin.
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Isn't it already bundle with Windows 11? Article doesn't say what's the difference.
I can picture the MS execs going "Shit, we still have 1,000,000 Windows users that are not feeding us their data every second, we're not enshitifying fast enough. Step on it".
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Happy card making!.... What do you guys use word for at home other than training Microsoft's AI?
Wow if only anyone saw this coming
Use Linux.
Use LibreOffice.
Use LibreWolf or WaterFox.
Free yourselves.
If you're in the US, soon this will be arrestable for enabling terrorism.
I was using a work computer yesterday and I wanted to copy some lines of text to use again later. So i tried to open Notepad, it wasn't installed on this machine. I had to open word instead. I thought Notepad came as standard?
What?
Notepad is on there. It's just shit now. Saves automatically, reopens your last notepads, has copilot crap. FFS. I usually used notepad as a scratch pad to dump shit temporarily.
Today I opened it on a client's computer and they had 18 sage files or something automatically open back up. Problem was they were temporary files for doing bank transfer or whatever.
Notepad barked about the file kissing for each one. I killed it from task manager and had to use word. 🤮
HumanOnEarth announces they will install Linux on all computers going forward
They'll try to make Linux illegal soon.
Impossible. The cloud will fall. And locking the bootloader of computers won't work.
I didn't say they'll succeed. And it'll only apply to private users, of course.
Major fear is corruption of the culture. There are corpos and cunts that would benefit from Steam stopping linux suppory which is a major adoption driver. Nvidia is supposedly a more difficult gpu/cpu to use with linux and the current duopoly leans heavily in their favour.
I was dual booting for a bit on two computers but didn't get too far away from Windows.
Finally reinstalled only Ubuntu on my laptop. I use my laptop until I need something on Windows then figure out how to do it on Ubuntu.
Got Syncthing running on both computers early this week to replace Box. Still need to see if I can run it on my NAS. Then need to get Back blaze sorted out.
this is the way
Even though I have a free student subscription, I uninstalled all Microsoft Office last month because the constant ‘do you want to use copilot???’ was infuriating.
Do you want to use copilot???
😭😭😭
To be fair, I use excel (2019, not 365) frequently and I'm never prompted for anything. I had to jerry rig the installation so only excel installed and not the full suite of products, but other than that it's been clean and perfect. Sure, I'm missing some features from 365, but one of those missing features is copilot. Everything else is perfect (and I need data sources and some other functions that aren't in Calc which is why I still use it)
I dare them to do it on my Pop OS! computers! I don't even run a windows VM anymore.
It feels liberating! No more Stockholm syndrome ✌️
Life has been so good with Linux.
Linux is inconvenient at times but so is Microsoft at all times. Atleast you can fix your problems on Linux
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Microsoft fuck you. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
This message is brought to you by Microsoft, for Linux Mint, and Linux Mint Debian Edition.
I found Linux Mint Cinnamon edition to be an incredibly easy transition. Just make sure you disable secure boot and use the drive format that the installer recommends.
And Bazzite, and Fedora, and OpenSUSE.
You'll be able to disable it, like anything else.
Its worth understanding that microsoft, like most companies, is rapidly rebranding most of their existing stuff as "AI". A couple weeks (months?) back at work we managed to convince the boss that maybe it wasn't a good idea to put all of our sensitive internal data into Teams and convinced him to turn off copilot. Literally minutes later he lost his shit because auto-transcripts no longer worked and IT turned it back on.
But that is what we are seeing with a LOT of companies. ANYTHING that can be sold as "AI" is getting re-branded as it. So it makes perfect sense that MS will rebrand it as "installing copilot AI" rather than "not removing clippy".
That said: MS have also been ahead of the curve on adding even more bullshit and spyware to everything they do so... have you heard the good word about Linux? Libre Office gets personal users most of the way there (and if they worked on their documentation, all the way there. I STILL don't fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc...). And for business/power use, the browser/cloud based solutions are probably what you want anyway since none of that data should live on your laptop/desktop and should instead live in the company approved data store.
Hear me out. I work in fintech. Medium size company. Super duper strict compliance and security. Although not as strict as what I've seen and heard of from big data and military contractors. Still. Experian for example mandated us that as a third party API data processor everyone that even goes near their raw credit score data be in an audited room that has a camera pointing at them at all times and a camera be pointed at their computer screens at all times as well. That's right, not on-device recording, but CCTV. The alternatíve was that we don't see their data at all. So we opted to encrypt all data from them at all times instead. At rest, in transit, doesn't matter. No visibility of it to us at all, except for the final numeric score you see on your credit reports and nothing else. And this is just one vendor we adhere to. There's tons of PII running through us. You get the ghist.
Come AI, suddenly our slack has an AI channel, we have a director of AI(?), and then a whole department. And of course the AI-assisted tools proliferate and QA and engineering are both mandated to perform more after laying off 30% of our devs. And every product manager's demo is talking about AI.
Meanwhile security said that no more Ubuntu and Fedora imaged laptops are allowed on our VPN. Windows 11 and the occasional Mac only.
Highly confidential business meetings are held with gong or other AI assist tools recording and summarizing everything. Code is being written with agentic AI. Internal-only docs are smoothed over with gpt. And all this with the notion that we should trust them that they don't extract data from these enterprise subscription products.
My only hope is that there's still some semblance of sanity left in this company because they have recently fired someone that proclaimed themselves being MAGA.
I STILL don’t fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc
I'm assuming you are referring to column filters and/or keeping the first row at the top of the screen:
- Filter: Select Header Row > Data > Auto Filter
- Row Freeze: View > Freeze Cells > Freeze First Row
Even better, click on the first cell (A1) if your headers are at the top, and then click on the filter button. Done.
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Oh no!
Anyway...
Moved to Linux (popos on desktop, mint on ancient laptop). Been fine. Don't miss windows. Play games and browse the web without issue.
Laughs in LibreOffice
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