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[–] markstos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And most adhesive bandages aren't part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MFW Americans call sterile stretchy scab stickers "Bandaids"

[–] sharkwellington@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

But seriously why do British people come up with such… whimsical words for everything?

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

And now I need to design a keyboard and name it the hoighty toighty tippy typer.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Then stop, you weirdo.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someday, my friends, presentations made and saved in Markdown will be king, and we can forget about opening slow programs to edit them.


Yes, somehow the world will be a better place when everything is a plaintext document. At least that's how I imagine it.


Incidentally, there was a cool python program for presenting pdfs I used years ago. I wonder if it or similar are still in vogue somewhere.