the only reason it sucks is because our hard water

Same. I probably get more calcium from a glass of water than from a glass of milk lol.

except for the very occasional

I, too, was disregarding the very occasional “courtesy flush” lol.

Every house and apartment I’ve lived in since 2003 has had low-flow fixtures. Never needed more than one flush.

Counterpoint: Good?

The fediverse has no global identity system. Just like how temporary email addresses protect YOU from spam, disallowing them protects volunteer-run services like Mastodon, Piefed, Lemmy et al from spam (and trolls, etc).

I do not approve any registration applications from throwaway email providers. Also, volunteer-run services are much less likely to use your email address for nefarious purposes. Data breaches are another thing, but TBH, most of the spam I get is from spammers just spraying out to anything that’s formatted like an email address. Not sure about Mastodon, but Lemmy and Piefed do not reveal your email address to anyone (admin can only see it during singup and in the database). At least in Lemmy, the passwords are hashed, but the standard advice to use a unique password per service applies so that in the event of a data breach, the email+password combo will only compromise that single service.

I guess the moral of the story is to save the tinfoil hats for BigTech™ and show the Fediverse people, who are trying to do better, that you’re here with good intentions. As an admin, I’ve seen more spam, trolls, and n’eer-do-wells signup with throwaway emails than people who are here because they want to be here, and to a severe enough degree that I will no longer accept registrations using such services.

Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI

No. lol

Then you really should list all of the secondary functions you plan to add to it, make sure they understand what those are, and agree to each of them: full disclosure.

If you do something on it that could get them in trouble, it’s their ass on the line, not yours.

Are you friends okay with you doing that? I would not be, especially if my so-called friend didn’t disclose the secondary operations of the device that’s in my home, on my internet connection, under my name.

“Our spyware is not able to accommodate your platform.”

The horror stories I’ve read about what you give the software access to do (assuming there’s truth to them; I’ve never run it myself).

Edit: I’m realizing now your screenshot is probably for a web course.

Yeah, I saw the steps for VLC and they’re similar. I tend to prefer CLI, so that’s what I did / wrote up.

That’s definitely weird. At least it seems like it’s just a UI glitch on that end and hasn’t empowered everyone who interacts with mod abilities lol.

Maybe check with the voyager community? Seems like a bug or something is out of sync. I’m not familiar enough with it to offer much more than that, unfortunately.

This one? https://lemmy.ca/c/timetravellerguide

I loaded it, and I’m only seeing you as a mod (no one else in the comments has the badge).

Are you using the default interface or another app? Maybe clear cache/cookies and see if that fixes it?

TL;DR: Probably not illegal, but I doubt the post office would accept it.

Answering this off-the-cuff with no research, but probably not illegal per se (more of a dick move).

A slice of cheese, wrapped or not, definitely would not make it through the sorting equipment intact, would likely melt in the trucks, and would absolutely stink up the place for the postal workers.

Edit: That said, there are classes of items that are prohibited in the mail, and this may fall under one of those. Like I said, I’m answering w/o any research whatsoever and focusing more on the logistics of it.

Yeah, I don’t think the lack of a free ethernet port is their biggest obstacle here.

I do that already and have for years…? .doc and .docx work just fine.

Edit: The only issue I’ve had is one place requiring a specific font of all things. Was able to just install a free version of that, and was all set.

My understanding from the articles I read is that the whole platform ran on PHP 5.5, and porting from a version that old to current is no small task.

If they do, hopefully they flock to a single instance which is easily blockable

A deadly blow?

I hope so.

Will a copycat spring up?

History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.

Where are the users going in the meantime?

Hopefully outside.

Does any of this really matter?

Only if they bring their bullshit to the fediverse.

I know managers who swore by MS Project (2007 I think?), and I didn’t totally hate it myself. Haven’t really looked for an alternative, but also, haven’t needed to for the most part.

I wonder if it’s just that project management has changed since then, and everything is all Jira/Kanban boards now? I think most of our projects have been laid out in Trello-like software and Git issues/tasks for probably the last 8 or 9 years.

I think Windows 2000 was the last Windows version I actually liked. It went downhill from there until 8 when I finally jumped ship for good. If I recall, Office 2003 was pretty close to Office 2000, just not as “flat”. I’m just more familiar with 2003 since I had it on my own PC and only used Office 2000 in the labs at school (so I could be mistaken).

Gradient support on shapes was massively improved (more than 2 points on custom gradients), 3D bevels and rotation support was added

Can’t say that’s a feature I’ve ever really needed in an office suite, so am unable to confirm or deny LibreOffice can’t do it.

better effects on photos were introduced and you can remove backgrounds

That’s kind of outside the scope of a word processor / office suite. I just use GIMP and import it into the document.

In office 2019, you can also import and export Drawing objects to SVG

LibreOffice Draw (part of the suite) can create, edit, import, and export SVGs. LibreOffice writer can import and use them.

It sounds like you’re just complaining that other office suites don’t have a bunch of out-of-scope, unnecessary features bolted on. Definitely not worthy of condemning them over that.