That’s insane!
A coworker recently sent me a Word document with edits and comments they had added. When I downloaded & opened it (in Word on Windows!) it told me that it had the edits/comments but it wouldn’t let me see them unless I log in to my Microsoft account and then view it online in the web version of Word. What the actual fuck?
Fuck that. I responded to my coworker and asked them to just send me the edits via email in plain text. I’m not winning popularity contests at work, but what the fuck Microsoft?
If you’re nervous about the switch consider dual-booting. Then you’re not fully committed to the switch & you can have your old Windows system back whenever you want it.
Main steps are:
Some useful links:
What’s a “gang input”?
I use Bats! for a HIIT timer & Loops Habit Tracker to keep myself honest. Both are available on F-Droid.
These are my main core apps. Not fully divested from closed ecosystems (YouTube & Google Maps are in there with alternative private frontends). But close enough for me.
“Sure, it is not perfect. But, sometimes it is incredibly helpful. No matter what you do with it, unfortunately, it is not an open-source solution.”
This article needed a better ai to write it .
I use Linux at the office. I’m the only employee at my company who does.
I haven’t had many issues collaborating with others using libreoffice while they use MS office. I do keep a Windows VM running for those somewhat rare instances where I need Windows for something though. I also needed to invest quite some time to figure out Linux alternatives for everything (how to use company VPN, how to get MS Teams working, how to connect to network drives, etc).
But so far so good. Been 100% Linux at work for maybe ~1.5 years?
Very good suggestion. Alternativeto.net is a great resource that I return to often. Eased the transition greatly when I originally left the “mainstream apps”.
Awesome! Thanks!
Agreed
Well, there’s Stash. Here’s a video demoing the main features.
Once you get over laughing you’ll realize that if a person is very serious about organizing their video, this is actually a really great option.
This is fantastic! Gnome is such a great project! Well done!
This will sound silly, but I didn’t realize that governments support open source like this. But it’s such a good idea! It’s similar to governments funding a park or a road any other public resource. Open source projects fit very nicely there!
Personally, I’ve used many trackers over the years. I currently use Loop Habit tracker but only for recording the information day-to-day. I periodically export my data in .csv format and merge it with my “long term storage” in a big spreadsheet which contains >10 years of data. I like doing it this way because I like to do statistics on it, plot it, etc. and that’s very easy in .csv format on a computer (I’m a nerd).
Because my “long term storage” is just a simple .csv I don’t need to worry about compatibility between apps. Also, if I lose my phone it’s not a big deal because I’d lose, at the most, a few months.
Here are a couple of ideas:
https://www.protondb.com/ is an excellent resource. Before you commit to Linux, look up your favorite games there to double check that they’ll work.
My personal experience is basically all games work on Linux. To the point I don’t even look games up on protondb before I buy. The exceptions seem to be multiplayer FPS games which use anti-cheat (but I don’t play those kinds of games).
What’s the “Bandcamp situation”?
…and we can be sure Amazon finds ways to monetize user data as well (they see your book purchases, downloads, reading habits, etc)
There have been ads on Kindle for a very long time. You can optionally pay an extra $15-$20 to remove the ads though.
Update for anyone who might be experiencing this issue:
I finally found a workaround “hacky” solution. I exported all of my notes to a backup file on desktop, sent it to my phone, put my phone in airplane mode, imported the backup, deleted all of the duplicate notes which resulted (because the phone was partway synced), turned off airplane mode, synced, then switched to desktop and synced.
In the syncing process a lot of notes were unnecessarily deleted and replaced with exact copies. So it wasn’t elegant, but it got the job done. Everything seems to be working now (I think)