The professional class is largely idiots playing with other people’s money. They parrot the big tech talking points to their tech illiterate (older) management and everyone pats each other on the back for implementing (big tech talking points).
Honestly, i think all these AI apps are going to be great for kind of forcing people to wake up since orgs around the world will eventually realize they shouldn’t be feeding it all their IP.
Yeah, their understanding of privacy is v weird, to me...
Like they're all super distrustful of each other, but then they're more than willing to give away any and all privacy when it comes to these tech companies and the like...
Somewhere along the way, that became "normalised" - that your classmates/colleagues can't even be trusted for a basic conversation (fair, in some cases, I guess), but tech companies..? Nah, they'll have your back...
Ah social skills... We live in a very strange, increasingly "inhuman and impersonal" time...
I've been listening to normies complain about Libre Office for the last couple of hours, eugh...
It's all "Google, Google, Google, why don't you just use Google Docs?"
Oh, I don't know, maybe because I actually like to work offline? Or maybe because I don't like having my writing censored as I type..?
I mean, come on...
Gmail is already shit enough, on its own.
I'm the same as you, on the laptop I am using right now, lol...
Unfortunately my new one that I am still setting up for everyday use won't let me use older Office versions (I believe), so that is going to be... Awful.
Or even more reasonably asking “why does a for profit, publicly traded company give this out for free? Am I the product” we know how how FOSS are funded like linux distros, libre office, Apache, blender, gimp, etc. through donations, merch, support subscriptions. Google is selling your info. Good enough as any reason to not use their products. And how many different devices are you reasonably working on throughout the day? Word processor files are tiny.
I would also note that Gmail subtly did this. Like, if this change was "announced" anywhere, I didn't actively notice...
It only became obvious in the last few months, while drafting emails, that it was clearly following the same "trend", now...
Because that's how this always goes: sneak the change in, and hope the normies don't pick up on it/notice enough to care, or they just accept it as inevitable... Unfortunately...
I haven't used it for a while, either, but I'm reliably informed it does, now, yes...
Gmail does, now. I would be entirely unsurprised if it does the same...
I guess you could do a "jogger test" with Sheets, to check (which would be... Amusing, if nothing else), but like you say, if they're going to do this anywhere, it will be in the word processor, not so much the spreadsheet app...
Libre Office does everything I want an office suite to do without the cost and censorship of Office.
Do you know if it allows for red-lining? I typically use LO for everything but I'm starting to run into situations (for school and work) that it doesn't seem to have functionality for.
It really is weird how easy it was for Big Tech to get everyone to go along with all of this...
Like, they've barely even had to push this censorship, or everything being cloud-based, and cloud-based only, on the professional class...
It's like they actually want to be turned into chattel. It's amazing.
Especially the Zoomers I have to work with. They literally cannot see anything bad about any of this. Quite incredible to see...
The professional class is largely idiots playing with other people’s money. They parrot the big tech talking points to their tech illiterate (older) management and everyone pats each other on the back for implementing (big tech talking points).
Honestly, i think all these AI apps are going to be great for kind of forcing people to wake up since orgs around the world will eventually realize they shouldn’t be feeding it all their IP.
Yeah, their understanding of privacy is v weird, to me...
Like they're all super distrustful of each other, but then they're more than willing to give away any and all privacy when it comes to these tech companies and the like...
Somewhere along the way, that became "normalised" - that your classmates/colleagues can't even be trusted for a basic conversation (fair, in some cases, I guess), but tech companies..? Nah, they'll have your back...
Ah social skills... We live in a very strange, increasingly "inhuman and impersonal" time...
Zoomers are the "weak men" in the 4-stage cycle.
I've been listening to normies complain about Libre Office for the last couple of hours, eugh...
It's all "Google, Google, Google, why don't you just use Google Docs?"
Oh, I don't know, maybe because I actually like to work offline? Or maybe because I don't like having my writing censored as I type..?
I mean, come on...
Gmail is already shit enough, on its own.
I'm the same as you, on the laptop I am using right now, lol...
Unfortunately my new one that I am still setting up for everyday use won't let me use older Office versions (I believe), so that is going to be... Awful.
Or even more reasonably asking “why does a for profit, publicly traded company give this out for free? Am I the product” we know how how FOSS are funded like linux distros, libre office, Apache, blender, gimp, etc. through donations, merch, support subscriptions. Google is selling your info. Good enough as any reason to not use their products. And how many different devices are you reasonably working on throughout the day? Word processor files are tiny.
Does Docs actually do this? I've had to use a lot of Sheets, but obviously it's a different beast.
I would also note that Gmail subtly did this. Like, if this change was "announced" anywhere, I didn't actively notice...
It only became obvious in the last few months, while drafting emails, that it was clearly following the same "trend", now...
Because that's how this always goes: sneak the change in, and hope the normies don't pick up on it/notice enough to care, or they just accept it as inevitable... Unfortunately...
I haven't used it for a while, either, but I'm reliably informed it does, now, yes...
Gmail does, now. I would be entirely unsurprised if it does the same...
I guess you could do a "jogger test" with Sheets, to check (which would be... Amusing, if nothing else), but like you say, if they're going to do this anywhere, it will be in the word processor, not so much the spreadsheet app...
Gmail literally does, dude.
I used it today and it did this…
And I’ve seen articles about Docs doing the same, now.
Stop running interference, or whatever it is you are trying, here. “Weird ramble” or no…
Try updating the software. It won't work for the really old versions but I was able to get the 2016 version on my current laptop.
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
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https://massgrave.dev/office_c2r_links.html
Do you know if it allows for red-lining? I typically use LO for everything but I'm starting to run into situations (for school and work) that it doesn't seem to have functionality for.
Just wanted to say that Libre Office is phenomenal.