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But like, using LaTeX as a replacement for microsoft word is NOT really useful advice for the vast majority of people who use Word. I don't need ANY of the special things LaTeX does, and I've been using Word all my life to do the basic stuff I need it for.

I get where people here are coming from, but the whole point of this thread is talking about proprietary software which is better for the average use case than open source stuff, and I think the point still stands that MSOffice products absolutely fit that bill. Yes, open source or free alternatives exist, but they aren't nearly as good, feature-full, and easy to learn and use as the open source alternatives.

The fact that we're here arguing whether LaTeX is a viable alternative to Word and Power Point kinda proves that MSOffice is the best for this IMO, because LaTeX isn't exactly easy to pick up and use and is really intended for industries that need extremely complex formatting on their presentations and papers.

This guys reply to me was literally "git isn't too technical, mathematicians use this extremely complicated program for generating highly technical documents all the time so obviously grandma could too!"

I agree 100% with you, I tried to use LaTeX ONE time in college and nearly chucked my computer out the window, and I'm a software developer. I was using it for a math class and couldn't get my head around any of it.

It certainly isn't a good replacement for MSWord or PowerPoint for the VAST majority of people who don't need to put mathematical notation into their presentations and just need words on a screen

No, but Republicans want you to think that it is.

There's a lot of irrational fear mongering around crime in California that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

I've said it many times: I think that copyright for all published art should extend for exactly one year after it's publication then become public domain. For almost ALL media, the first year is the time in which it make over 90% of its money. If you haven't turned a profit, or at least broken even, by then then you aren't going to.

After tjay I don't see why you should be entitles to royalties from every sale, especially with our modern system of mass distribution.

Adobe Acrobat. I have tried at least 5 other PDF readers and editors for windows, and none of them are remotely close. Either they don't have any document editing at all and are just PDF readers, or their editing capabilities are VERY clunky, not feature rich, or just don't work.

I haven't ever found another program that let's me directly edit text in a PDF that already exists.

I don't need to edit PDFs much but when I do it's usually quite important, and Adobe is by far the easiest and quickest to do it in.

I hate that that's the case, because I really don't like Adobe as a company and would rather not have to use their software, but there it is.

If you're using git to track document changes then you're almost certainly in the tech industry and are quite familiar with the inner workings of your computer.

For 90% of people using computers right now, asking them to use git to do version management on their day to day work flow would be like asking me to fly a rocket ship to work.

I agree with the OP here, for what it does office is leaps and bounds ahead of any of the other software I've used to try to replace it and I always end up landing back on it.

I would argue that if there's a product that nobody knows exist that's not necessarily because we need to allow constant intrusive ads, and more indicative that people don't actually need the product.

I want to say that in any given day, 60% of the ads I see are from big, well known companies who don't need me to see them to know they exist. Shit like Liberty Mutual (I swear I see more of their ads than anyone else and THEY ARE ALREADY MY INSURANCE PROVIDER), Coke, Pepsi, etc. 39.9% of the remaining 40% are advertisements for shit that I just don't care about. I don't care about the newest tech toys. I don't care about the newest car mods, or random shit I can put on my desk, or stupid extra kitchen gadgets. Fully 40% of the ads I see are trying to convince me that I should buy a product that I straight up don't need because the ad looked cool. Why should those ads be allowed to exist? Why should I be constantly bombarded with ads for services that I either already know plenty about or for things that are trying to manufacture a reason for their existence?

Only about 0.5% of the ads I see are actually for things I did know know about and that seem useful to me, or like something I would like. Probably even less than that, I'm drunk rn and estimating.

Right before the API changes I got a 1 week ban from reddit for "report abuse."

I reported a post on r/Ukraine that SHOWED A BEHEADING. When I reported that shit it was a full on, uncensored beheading video.

Apparently that's "report abuse" for some fucking reason. But the antisemites who sent me blatant racism? Not enough to bet them banned.

And it was the cop whose rights were violated, not the guy who they were shooting at for no reason.

Basically the only times I click on ads is when I'm searching for something and the search engine I'm using has paid ads for the thing I'm searching for at the top.

Beyond that I can't think of any times I've ever clicked on an ad intentionally.

Until the dude making all of these claims presents actual proof I don't believe a word of it. So far all he has is hearsay, he can't identify the people who told him things, the few people who he did identify haven't come forward to my knowledge, and all of the documents he claims to have are top secret and not releasable to the public.

When you're making a claim as big as "aliens are here and the government has their ships and some bodies from them and is also covering it up," you need to provide more evidence than "I know because multiple people have told me but I'm not allowed to say who, also ive never seen them, and I have documents to prove it but you can't see them because the government says so."

The problem is that social media companies have completely capitulated to fascists, with absolutely zero attempt to put up a fight.

Everyone knows, and I mean literally everyone, that if the rules were enforces fairly on social media then something like 60% of conservatives would have to be banned. They regularly say things that are openly racist, sexist, and incite violence on the reg.

But social media companies only care about money, and to make money they want as many people as possible to show up. So while they know these cesspools exist on their platforms where people say the most heinous shit imagineable, they tolerate it because it makes them money and avoids the big fascist rage party if they fairly enforced their rules.