• besselj@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    All the cool kids are using military-grade, open-source productivity tools now

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      6 months ago

      Fun fact about military-grade.

      It means jack shit. It’s a marketing buzz word, and should be illegal to use in commercial sense.

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        6 months ago

        It generally means the cheapest option with the simplest possible operation that does the job well enough.

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            6 months ago

            Same thing. It has to be barely thick enough to stop a predefined caliber weapon. And made of the cheapest possible material that still makes the armored vehicle mobile. Equipping armies is kind of expensive.

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              That’s compleat bullshit at least with the US army they overspend by millions and are constantly one upping every army on earth and either way a military tank is better than a civilian grade sedan.

              https://youtu.be/hFn5Mi3JlMM

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                6 months ago

                they overspend by millions

                Because everyone needs their cut.

                either way a military tank is better than a civilian grade sedan.

                Because they’re two different vehicles, not two different classes of product. If you compare military grade phones to civilian phones, the civilian would be better, and probably cheaper due to not having the buzzwords attached. And I bet a tank made by a private firm for non-government entities would in fact be better and cheaper than a military tank.

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      6 months ago

      No, LibreOffice is way better nowadays.

      And that is mainly thanks to MS Office having gotten way worse than before.

      There is a long standing problem where LibreOffice becomes very slow when adding images. That hasn’t been fixed, last I checked.
      But thanks to MS Office now being slow all the time and also taking up way too much RAM, meaning that opening 4-5 Word+Excel documents on 8GB RAM means you are constantly using the page file (my exp. with Office 2015 back then), LibreOffice’s problem is not a big deal any more.

      Your experience might not match what I am saying, because I am comparing MS Office on Windows vs LibreOffice on Linux.

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      6 months ago

      Does it do any of the Microsoft 365 features like versioning, collaboration / multi-editing and such? This has been a game changer for many corporate environments that used to rely on file servers and usb drives. I feel LibreOffice might be stuck in a previous decade of office software without this.

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    6 months ago

    isn’t openoffice the better one or is the jury still out on that one?

    i dunno, I just wordpad everything

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      LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice but OpenOffice is basically abandoned with every few updates or improvements over a good handful of years now. LibreOffice is generally seen as the successor and I wouldn’t be surprised is OpenOffice just gets archived.

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      I think you have it backwards. LibreOffice is the better one. OpenOffice has not seen any real updates since 2015. ( The apache foundation that is technicality still maintaining openoffice themselves say that OpenOffice has too many open security issues)