If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.
OnlyOffice Desktop Editors…
Simpler interface but lacking more advanced features of MS Office or Libre. It has the features 90% of users actually use though.
Nearly perfect DOCX formatting compatibility. The only thing I have ever noticed when collaborating with Word users is the bullet symbols on list items may be different on my end.
Step 1. Don’t.
Common courtesy is to not even link to paywalled articles… The publisher has already made it clear they are not interested in public awareness of their content.
I’m a technical writer (aircraft maintenance and flight operations manuals, mostly) and eliminating ambiguity is key to clear, effective communication.
Leaving out that comma takes a sentence with only one possible interpretation and gives it several options instead.
Maybe 3.5k and a pizza party.
Copy the file and paste it into anywhere you can enter text… you get the path to the file as text.
I see one sponsor link, no other ads.
Choose your browser extensions, choose your browsing experience.
And the outlets don’t make the connection that their readers are telling them to stop shoveling AI-generated garbage at them?
It’s hard to feel sympathy for people giving money to companies like Ubisoft, Epic and EA. It’s not like them being assholes that constantly screw over their customers is a new thing.
Brave essentially has done this all along.
I am Spez’s raging bile duct.
I do exactly this with a SteamDeck and USB-C docking station… with the added bonus that I can pull it out of the dock and take it with me to use as a hand-held when I travel.
New computers are the ones more likely to fail.
You are unlikely to find a new non-smart TV… the TV manufacturers get kickbacks from the streaming services for bundling their apps.
If you did find one, it would be more expensive than the dumb TV because you don’t have a bunch of streaming services subsidizing the price of the TV for you.
A computer monitor may work for you, or just buy a smart TV and never connect it to a network. You should be able to set it to automatically start up on the last-used input so you never see the built-in UI.
I use traditional packages and Flatpaks… with “user apps” being preferred as Flatpak. This is potentially safer as the OS itself can’t be affected by installing or removing these applications, and also can mitigate dependency hell as apps that require different versions of the same dependency can coexist peacefully, with each one using its own bundled version of that dependency.
I also have a couple of appimages that aren’t available as a Flatpack, and I’ll simply find an alternative to anything that is only distributed as a Snap due to the performance issues, mount clutter, and proprietary nature of the Snap distribution back-end.
A Linux computer does what you tell it to do when you tell it to do it, and that’s all it does…
Like every computer should do.
But this hasn’t been true of Windows computers in 20 years.
Here’s an idea… stop giving your money to companies that don’t want you as a customer.
When I set mine to Mute, Netflix still kept launching. So I set it to Show Recent Apps and long-press to Mute. That solved it.
X1 for ultra portability.
Otherwise, T14 or T15.