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Comment Re: Ahahahahahaha (Score 1) 21

Allowing a customer to service their own stuff while still being responsible for the maintenance contract is a potential nightmare.

No, it is not. You write the contract so that if the customer fucks it up it's their problem, and if you have to undo things that they did when you get there, they have to pay for it.

Comment Re:Saw an ad after paying for ad free (Score 1) 60

I would pay, even though I fucking hate Bezos, to watch Fallout without ads.

But since that's not an option, I will not pay. Whether I watch the series is irrelevant... to Amazon, anyway, since they will not derive any revenue from the activity either way.

Fuck them, and fuck anyone who gives them money to be shown ads, fucking class traitors. They are literally paying for the enshittification of society.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 256

I will do that. I use gnumeric all the time for small CSVs because of the quick startup, but I haven't tried it on large files recently. Last time I did, it didn't acquit itself well, but I will give it another go. When I'm doing this it's really always CSVs, and I'm just trying to massage some data slightly before I import it somewhere. I finally resorted to just writing perl, but it was to do things that would have been faster to do in a spreadsheet if it didn't crater.

Comment Re: seen this movie before (Score 1) 256

Can we please drop this "windows is spyware" crap?

Why do you imagine that it is crap? Every expert disagrees with you.

No government is buying Windows Home or leaving telemetry on.

Aww you're so cute. Dumb, but cute.

You think you can be sure you've disabled all of that functionality.

Even if they didn't, GDPR.

Those are certainly all letters, but they don't prevent international espionage.

And calling the US untrustworthy because you don't like a President needs to go as well.

Some of us are just smart enough to call a fascist a fascist, and just dumb enough to do it, too. But you're dumb enough to deep throat the boot.

It is a foolish conceit that serves you poorly.

I will continue to resist this regime as long as I am able, because failure to do so is how to be destroyed by it.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 256

For all the crybragging of the faithful, the open Office suites work just fine.

I'm not faithful to any software, and I use LO for almost everything. But sometimes I try to load a big CSV into Calc for massaging and it crashes. Then I load the same file into Excel and it's fine, and not even slow. They clearly need to do fundamental work on Calc. Writer is already superior to Word in this regard, so this is not a blanket complaint about LO.

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