Don’t you follow and obey Orange Jesus?

Glad to read that it’s not just me.

It’s just normal asshole main-character behavior. See ripples of that behavior across society these days.

Yeah, should have been “Trust us…or not. Doesn’t matter, we’ll do what we want regardless.”

By the way, LibreOffice also supports OOXML, so… do with that what you want.

Yes, from the article:

LibreOffice currently handles ODF files perfectly and handles OOXML files better than Windows 365 and other software handle ODF files. Poor handling of ODF files “forces” users towards OOXML files, thus pushing them towards lock-in and protecting a business worth around $30 billion (because lock-in functions like a pair of handcuffs).

Reminds me a bit of this older “breakthrough” https://petapixel.com/2021/11/01/new-5d-disc-storage-can-store-500tb-of-data-for-13-billion-years/

The bots, they don’t like when you do that.

Copilot steals from all the code on github.

People pretending the US is still a country of laws. Cute, but depressing too.

As do the courts quite often.

I don’t know that he’s dumb, but that makes him even worse.

I see the shit that people send out, obvious LLM crap, and wonder how poor they must write to consider the LLM output worth something. And then wonder if the people consuming this LLM crap are OK with baseline mediocrity at best. And that’s not even getting into the ethical issues of using it.

I am NOT a power user of my phone. That said, I’ve liked YAM Launcher for a while. It is minimalist and does everything I want in a launcher.

I’ve had a 7t for I don’t know how many years. I always hate phone shopping. I hope that there is something like fairphone available when this thing dies. I just want to have a replaceable battery. I’d probably still have a phone from a decade ago if I could replace the battery.

And I was suggesting that the middle class already pays a wealth tax as most of their wealth is in their home. I agree with OPs sentiment, but have it start above $5 million and have it pretty steeply progressive.

You’re probably right. I last read part of it for a class about 35 years ago, and I no longer trust my memory anyways.

I don’t remember it being that big of a book.

If you are in my state, it’s taxed via property tax.

I enjoy both ways, but I can’t grasp how people think they are the same.

According to this page, that is just not true.

When you read, your brain is working hard behind the scenes. It recognizes the shapes of letters, matches them to speech sounds, connects those sounds to meaning, then links those meanings across words, sentences and even whole books. The text uses visual structure such as punctuation marks, paragraph breaks or bolded words to guide understanding. You can go at your own speed.

Listening, on the other hand, requires your brain to work at the pace of the speaker. Because spoken language is fleeting, listeners must rely on cognitive processes, including memory to hold onto what they just heard.