Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office.

Last time I used MS Office was 10 months ago, and it had a bunch of annoying “features” related to sharing, etc. But PowerPoint has always had some great authoring tools. Sometimes if I was writing an article in LaTeX, I’d still do the figures in PowerPoint.

LibreOffice is a solid substitute, though.

I’ve been using Gimp for simple things, and it’s been OK once I realized that whatever I want to do, I should look it up first instead of just trying to figure it out through trial and error.

I wouldn’t do version control that way, but I’ve used Word to keep track of what I’m working on during integration tasks. It’s nice because you can drop in code, error messages, and screen captures. E.g.: the tool looks like this: (image) but gives an error like this: (error message) and I think the problem is in file.py around lines XYZ: (code snippet) when I run the command (command used), and I think the answer is in (a couple links I found).

They’re both part of the nanobility.

Waifus don’t count to normies.

Why are they all Cathode Ray Tubes? The father should be a flat-screen and the kid should be a phone screen.

In this image you could just put cardboard over all the ads to have an ad-free experience.

When you defend, print out your slides; at least enough for your committee and you. Then if all else fails, you can present off the paper copies. (also, it gives the committee members somewhere to write notes and to easily look back to previous slides.)

Why so fancy? Sites like this are famous with millions of views: https://web.archive.org/web/20041229194455/http://www.ikissyou.org/indeks2.html

Take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

AI has a strong boom/bust cycle. We’re currently in the middle of a “boom.” It’s possible that this is an “eternal September” scenario where deep networks and LLMs are predominant forever, or…

Don’t think there’s anything on lemmy yet.

!fosai@lemmy.world – has a good overview/introduction

!localllama@sh.itjust.works

!localllm@lemmy.world

!localai@lemmy.world

!localllama@kbin.social

Some of those are inactive, though.

Not OP, but FWIW I didn’t realize until reading your comment that the “awesome-selfhosted software” under Resources was actually an FAQ/List. I thought it was a repo of maybe just a couple relevant apps.

I know that doesn’t make a lot of sense now that I think about it, but I think it’s easy to miss.

Sounds like the title of an isekai.

reddits true size lies at around 5 million or less. Less than 5 times Lemmy’s size.

Lemmy doesn’t have 1.5 million active users; that’s how many active users the Fediverse as a whole has; most of those are Mastodon users. Lemmy has around 32K active users. So if your 5 million number is right, Reddit is around 156 times larger than us.

I’m not the person you asked, but I’ve heard an argument that goes like this: Evil Company will “embrace” something, then “extend” it in a way that only works with Evil Company’s product, then “extinguish” that thing by making Evil Company’s approach incompatible with it. A discussion is provided here: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

In Ireland.

most of all I just fear change

Most of the time we’re not using Linux directly, we’re using a web browser, a text editor, a media player, etc

Next time you’re getting rid of a system, see if you can put Linux on it and just use it for Web browsing or something. That way it’s low-stakes.

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What if they byte?