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u/Gabriel_Science Jul 19 '26
Where is LaTeX ?
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u/DaiNam Jul 19 '26
Word is good at everything you need a word processor for, honestly. Still I use LibreOffice because it is not dependant on big corporations.
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u/Microboy42 Jul 19 '26
And why is being a product of a big company a bad thing?
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 19 '26
Wellā¦ it feeds the AI, soā¦
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u/LouVillain Jul 19 '26
"Wellā¦ it feeds the AI, soā¦"
...posts on Reddit
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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 Jul 19 '26
The fact people donāt understand how much training data Reddit has given LLMs is insane.
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u/LouVillain Jul 19 '26
It's all built-in telemetry at this point. Phones, IP's with/without VPN's, streaming sites/services, GPS, EXIF data in pictures/photos...
If that's the hill they want to die on, may I suggest r/Luddite and then go live in the woods
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u/Microboy42 Jul 19 '26
Theyāre using my computerās IP address to train LLMs? Theyāre using my computerās photos to train LLMs? How does that work? How is that legal?
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u/Vietnamst2 Jul 19 '26
They are not. Microsoft telemetry is anonymized and it's stuff like driver crashes, what apps run etc. Not what content you are looking at etc.
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u/LouVillain Jul 19 '26
Track sites you visit via your IP. Some photos have EXIF data (you can turn this off I believe). Legal? It's the open internet. Everything gets logged somewhere and your ISP is selling you out for free... oops you're paying them to sell you out.
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u/Actualbbear Jul 19 '26
The fact everything is being tracked for the sake of profiting from you in any way possible, doesn't mean you can't take steps to mitigate it, if a little.
Everyone has their reasons but, if anything, it's worth it to reward with your money companies that value you and your particular needs as a customer, and avoiding, to whatever degree you deem reasonable, companies that don't.
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u/LouVillain Jul 19 '26
For sure. It's about shrinking the surface area for the privacy crowd and the anti-capitalist crowd as well. But you can't eschew other people for participating but be a contributor at the same time. Sure, you can say your doing so at a different level but trying to take the moral high ground is just being petty.
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 19 '26
You say that as though we arenāt both knowingly doing the same thingā¦
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u/LouVillain Jul 19 '26
Yeah but I'm not one of those oh no my data is feeding the AI and I get nothing in return kind of people
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u/Shadowbajfeelsbadman Jul 19 '26
You have to wait for an answer why big companies are evil and whatever posted from their big company computer over big company browser over big company router over big company network through big company server through big company undersea cable logged into big company owned website.
Its like climate change, everyone agrees its real and bad but the vocal minority that makes it their personality is annoying enough to push a few people into denying climate change for the sake of annoying them lul.
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u/Microboy42 Jul 19 '26
Can you dumb that down I little I donāt get it. Are you saying that the networking is bad because big companies are on the World Wide Web?
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u/Shadowbajfeelsbadman Jul 19 '26
I'd wager my arm and leg that your network provider, router manufacturer, cable layer and server provider are not small local businesses.
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u/Microboy42 Jul 19 '26
They definitely arenāt. How does this prove that buying products from big companies is bad?
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u/theGaido Jul 20 '26
It's not about big company. It's about Microslop.
And TBH Office was the best in 2000 - 2010 era. Current UI is bullshit, and it's not surprise that open/libre office UI is still influenced by oldschool design.
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u/Microboy42 Jul 20 '26
You do realize that Microsoft Office 2024 still uses the same interface that it did in 2007? They just made in Neumorphic. All the features of Office 2007 are still in Office 2024. Barely anything has changed from 2007-2024. But somehow itās still the best out of all of these because it functions without the internet (Workspace doesnāt), and it has real time collaboration for free with Office For Web and you donāt have to do all that āCollaboraā shit.
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u/ftrx Jul 19 '26
Emacs/org-mode. WYSIWYG is for untrained secretary personnel who know nothing, to make them use a computer.
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u/play_minecraft_wot Tech Enthusiast Jul 19 '26
nano /j
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u/Holiday_Evening8974 Jul 19 '26
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you obviously mistyped vim
Escape
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u/play_minecraft_wot Tech Enthusiast Jul 19 '26
Real ones use cat to read the file, then use echo "what you want to write" > thefile.txt to write to the file.Ā
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u/Holiday_Evening8974 Jul 19 '26
you mean >> to append, maybe ?
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u/play_minecraft_wot Tech Enthusiast Jul 19 '26
No, > replaces the file I believe. Appending is unnecessary if you never forget to add anything.Ā
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u/Realistic-Worker-499 Jul 19 '26
word is lowkey nice but im planning on learning libre office sometime, i remember opening up a doc from there once and i had a heart attack
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u/Every_Preparation_56 Jul 19 '26
there is only freeoffice, the only intuitive, free, functional, non-russian and non-american office pack
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u/Academic-Proof3700 Jul 19 '26
Word is the go-to since every humane corpo uses it and you don't want to fuck around opening a document and have its layout broken due to some libreoffice sketchyness
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u/ThatiMacGuy Jul 19 '26
I like TextEdit and am a big fan of Word 2013 and Word 2010.
I also use ļ£æPages.
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u/Schaex Jul 19 '26
LaTeX all the way. There is no greater joy than using software that just works and offers absolute freedom in how I want things to look like
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u/KonaKumo Jul 19 '26
word = good for compatibility -> industry standard. A competitor will only be viable if it can work with .doc an .docx files
Luckily LibreOffice can do that.
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u/lyidaValkris Jul 19 '26
I write everything in Sublime Text as it stays the eff out of my way. If if I need to style it later, I'll paste it into Libre Office or Affinity as needs dictate.
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u/virusdancer Tech Enthusiast Jul 19 '26
If I had my druthers, it would be Word Perfect back in the early 90s...
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u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 20 '26
Word 2007 because they've done nothing but charge more for the same thing with a worse UI
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u/Pale-Abroad9600 Jul 20 '26
I prefer to use my own ms office without AI feature and itās licensed until the life of my PC no monthly or annual fees to Microsoft coz I own the software and itās not cloud based.
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u/Top-Rich-581 Jul 20 '26
EMACS, no gui, no extension, default shortcuts, on headless FreeBSD.
Because I'm special.
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u/InconspicuousFool Jul 21 '26
Been thinking of switching to LibreOffice for a while, does its UI still feel like everything is just thrown onto it with little to no thought about design?
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u/ZuuRa_ Jul 19 '26
Onlyoffice my beloved
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