Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.
"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".
You're welcome. Please boost for others.
This is not a cry for help, I'm aware LibreOffice and other alternatives exist and suggesting them to me does not help anyone fix this
Edit: this was a foolishly optimistic thing to bother saying
@hyc @ghost_shit @timixretroplays my clients are in critical infrastructure so they have other dependencies on these tools too. So it'd require dozens of companies jumping ship to tools not optimised for real time collaboration at scale at once, which would be a disaster.
I love FOSS but it is quite literally impossible for some of us to avoid office/other proprietary suites
@machinesbleedtoo @hyc @ghost_shit @timixretroplays Yikes, that is a nasty network lock on effect.
And I feel it myself, I strongly avoid having a Google account but have to use one for doc collaboration with fellow cycling advocates.
Just like Samba deveopers (pretty much) have to use GitLab.com to submit patches, and most of the rest of the world has to use GitHub.
This is going to remain very difficult to avoid :-(
Tim 🎮
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Howard Chu @ Symas
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