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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Haven't used word in over 20 years and have no intention of ever using it again.

OpenOffice baby!

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[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

most of them accept pdfs so if thats the case for you just write the assignment in typst or latex and compile to pdf

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

This is the way.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we're blessed not to hear about him from now?

We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.

Also, LibreOffice saves in .docx format, if you want to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic.

[–] blurb@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had no idea. With all of the things I have to follow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis some things are just going to fall through the cracks. "Minor public figure holds reprehensible views" won't generally hit my radar. "Major public figure did something reprehensible" may not hit my radar depending on how busy or drunk I am in a given week, which will leave me wondering why people hate them years later.

I'm not saying this as a criticism of you. You brought it up which is super valuable. There's just so much shit to keep up with that I always appreciate context because I have other things going on and rarely have any idea what reprehensible thing a particular person has said or done.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey no sweat 🙂 I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you're at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I've been using free software (both free as in freedom and free as in beer) off and on since I discovered slackware in the 90s, but I'll be the first to admit I'm not plugged into the scene. I'm not plugged into most scenes except possibly rock and Americana music, and I know all the gross shit that happened there. Rock music especially. And that may actually be why I tend to avoid getting plugged in.

But I went through the whole report. I'm sad to find out someone with such lofty ideals in one area is so scummy. A lot of that just sounds like typical neckbeard idiocy dialed up to maximum. And if he were just any neckbeard or incel on the street everyone could just dismiss him. But he's a prominent figure that represents a movement spouting gross and harmful shit. It has nothing to do with the validity of the movement, nor does it remove the value of free software, but him being a keynote speaker everywhere and being so involved makes things feel dirty.

I don't know. I didn't take my medication today so I'm scattered. I just hate when people doing important or influential work are gross people, especially if they have harmful attitudes towards minors.

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Wow, he's quite passionate. I just kept scrolling through the quotes and it never ends

[–] jcr@jlai.lu 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

To our collective social woe, disinformation succeeds because so many people care deeply about injustice but do not take the time to study the facts before passing along or acting on disinformation.

Something many of us should learn from, even more appropriate on lemmy.

Does using the computer just turn people into this?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, LibreOffice saves in docx. Which is fine as long as you don't care what it looks like when they open it.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

At least for school assignments this is easily fixed by just opening it yourself in the school library and adjusting format. It's usually pretty minor.

Honestly most of my professors accepted papers saved as pdfs which was helpful too

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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do you remember when radicals were trying to cancel RMS because of him merely defending some accused person.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago

The whole feud was very sad to unfold.

Ok, he is not perfect, but we need him, now more than ever. Even if only as a symbol.

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[–] pheggs@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

just rename the file and submit it as a .docx, it's their fault

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Nick Offerman after getting Jumanji’ed

[–] matmarspace@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago

It's the right thing to complain about that kind of stuff and to do it officially.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 day ago

Me when the school system is Google Classroom

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Can't OpenOffice export to .docx?

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I mean it completely fucked my resume when I exported it but I was being fancy with grayscale

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[–] Toes@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use RTF because it works on most systems out of the box.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I write my papers in markdown. Simple to write, easy to paste into Discord or Lemmy, and you can use pandoc to instantly turn it into any format you like.

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