Yeah, I’m well aware. But how much of my time would it take to get a bunch of windows software running smoothly on Linux?
I do appreciate the offer of personal help, that’s an extremely generous offer to an internet stranger. Sincerely, thank you!
Superconducting magnets… superconductors are one of those areas where science gets weird.
I’m glad that age has given me the comfort to tell people when I just don’t know, and therefore, don’t have an opinion on some things.
Yeah it certainly seems to me that as people get older they tend to have fewer shits to give in general. What’s funny about it, is that while that sounds like a bad thing, it’s often a pretty good thing. It means people are more confident, confident enough to show humility, and to say what they actually think.
If people were never extraordinarily wrong about things, we’d have nothing to argue about on the Internet. What a blessing!
I guess the question is how often do you realize that you’re actually on the wrong side of that argument, it definitely happens. And then what do you do next? Dig your heels in, double down and keep arguing? Or acknowledge the realization, make a concession or even apology?
Evidently, it can be hard to be a decent person (hard for all of us), when anonymity means there are no personal consequences to being a dick.
I’m a bit depressed that I finally need to upgrade my last windows 7 machine. It looks like it’s 10 for me now :-(
I think this is my favorite comment of the day.
I agree with the second paragraph completely. Although I’m not sure about the accuracy or relevancy of the first paragraph.
Oh no, I can see exactly why you’d want cloud storage in a business… But why as part of your office suite? If nothing else, it seems foolish to tie your storage solution to your office suite. It means your locking yourself into an ecosystem and reducing your options in the future.
Adding all these unrelated features is like saying “check it out! This car has a toaster oven!”. I mean, cool. And sure other cars don’t, so that’s something I guess, but why?
Why would you want multifactor authentication for your word documents? Hell, why do you need authentication? If you’re logged into the machine I think you get to use the word processor. But hey, if all this stuff really belongs in an office suite, why not throw in an aquarium screensaver, a cobal compiler and a drive formatter, that would really round the package out.
Yeah that’s fair, I’ve seen how Office business integrates with the OS and a bunch of network services, so I’m not surprised by that. Well, for those corporate environments I expect MS will continue to be the norm. But for small businesses and home use, Libra is really fantastic.
And honestly, for personal use I could do without all that email and calendar integration, good riddance.
Edit: Also storage? MFA? MDM? Why would you want that in an office suite? like maybe MDM is useful, but it doesn’t belong in the office suite. And the rest of the acronyms I didn’t even recognize… So I’m guessing they also don’t really belong.
Yeah it does. I’ll be honest, I don’t use spreadsheets much so I don’t have personal experience with it, but yeah it does support that.
I was curious, so I followed up on this. Here’s what a quick Google search turned up:
To open an XLSM file in LibreOffice Calc, you can generally open it directly. However, you might need to save it in a different format (like ODS) to ensure compatibility, especially if you’re dealing with macros. LibreOffice Basic is not directly compatible with Excel VBA macros, so you may need to rewrite the macros to use LibreOffice Basic.
In other words, you may need to save your Excel documents as open document files, but after that their macros should work just as they did. Either way, macros are supported and in fact there are a few different scripting languages you can use.
Sometimes I find myself annoyed by Lemmy users. We love to tout foss alternatives, even when they don’t work as well, or aren’t nearly as polished.
Libre office is a different story, it has everything you’ll need, it’s really complete, it does everything you want and it can read any format you throw at it and save its output in any format you need. It launches faster than Microsoft office, it’s more stable, I really have absolutely no complaints, everyone should be using it.
Hey, thanks for the reply. Yeah I ran memtest at some point, but I’ve also used the memory in a different machine and had no trouble with it.
I’ve done several bios updates hoping for some fix, but no beans.
It does feel like a hardware defect, but the unfortunate bit is that the machine ran great for over a year, then suddenly started giving me trouble at some point, so I’m probably outside of any warranty period. That’s basically the only reason I haven’t RMA’d it already.
Installing mint is a pretty good idea, I could try that. But yeah, a new AM4 mobo is probably my best bet, I can’t tell you how frustrating it is though…
Thanks for the ideas, I appreciate it!
Frequent crashing/freezing, especially at idle. Once the processor is under heavier load it’s fine, it’ll keep going smooth for hours. but at lower energy states the CPU is super unstable. It often takes me about a half hour just to get the thing up and running steady, very frustrating. Sometimes it likes to crash right as it’s changing load levels/c-State, so just as it finishes loading files for a game just as the first 3d frame is rendered. Or vice versa, it’ll crash about 15 seconds after the computer returns to mostly idle when you exit an application.
I’ve tried a bunch of things, disabling c-states, manually setting dram timings, manually increasing power to various parts, enabling/disabling just about every relevant feature I can find. And of course looking for help online. I’m actually pretty sure the problem is in the motherboard, as one of the “fixes” I tried was going from a Ryzen 3600 to a 3800X, and the problem was the same.
I’ve looked around and it’s an issue I have seen other people having, though it’s not very common. But there’s no consensus in the root of the problem. It does seem to be that it’s some interaction between the motherboard and cpu. It could plausibly be the power supply, but I think that’s pretty unlikely. The ram is fine.
Well personally, I’ve been having a bear of a time trying to get my Ryzen machine to run correctly. I’m starting to think there just aren’t good options
I just looked up jfa-go, I’m not at all opposed to trying things if they’ll work.
It seems like jfa-go is a user account management system, which is indeed super useful. But it doesn’t handle the remote content part. I’m still not going to create a VPN to share content.
I guess cancer isn’t all that bad. We all have to make sacrifices.
That depends, is there anything that isn’t a roguelike?
I’m pretty sure all applications are technically “roguelike” now. Hades (roguelike), FTL (roguelike), Dirt Rally (roguelike), card games (all roguelike), MS office 365 (roguelike), Android accessibility config pane (roguelike).
There was only one matrix film, that’s why it was called The Matrix
Yeah, that’s pretty dumb.
Were I a nefarious scheming hacker, I wouldn’t pay shit for that.
Ok, so I’ve definitely heard this before, so he’s really hot then?
I guess I see it, he has perhaps a model-like facial structure. But he’s always so off-putting when he speaks, I just can’t think of him as attractive.
Perhaps my perception is muddled by the characters he plays.