Cheri has movedSure, you can renew MS Office 365 for $130/yr. You can also install LibreOffice for free, donate $30 to the nice volunteers developing it, and still have $100 extra left over for groceries.
piku 
minor!
the magpie@cheribaker but then I don't get all the AI features...oh. right. Another reason to switch.
Bill@cheribaker I just did choco install libreoffice-fresh on my reimaged Windows box. It felt weird. Nice but weird.
Mark T. Tomczak@cheribaker Nice! I can buy half a carton of eggs with that!
Grant@cheribaker
The trouble is once I have started using O365 getting untangled from it. I have opted for just paying $29 for the cloud storage till I can get all my files sorted out. 🫤
@PeteGozz
The trouble is once I have started using O365 getting untangled from it. I have opted for just paying $29 for the cloud storage till I can get all my files sorted out. 🫤
@PeteGozz
Eva Chanda@cheribaker
That's my plan, as soon as I can transfer all my #OneDrive files to #Internxt cloud storage, which is #OpenSource and #decentralized. I'm already using #LibreOffice. #Microsoft doesn't make it easy to download or transfer your data, that's for damn sure.
That's my plan, as soon as I can transfer all my #OneDrive files to #Internxt cloud storage, which is #OpenSource and #decentralized. I'm already using #LibreOffice. #Microsoft doesn't make it easy to download or transfer your data, that's for damn sure.
Georgiana Brummell@echanda @cheribaker I just save everything to my computer, my thumb drive, and my external drives. That way, it stays with me and I can access it any time, from anywhere, and on any device.
@dandylover1 @cheribaker
That's so lowkey brilliant! Uses waaay less electricity and water than those damn server farms, and airgapped for security. I have a home NAS, but I always think "But what if my house burns down?" So I fell for the claim that the cloud is the safest... and "so convenient, store everything in the cloud, free up space on your devices!" Sigh, low-tech is soometimes the best. Cuneiform clay tablets, here I come!
That's so lowkey brilliant! Uses waaay less electricity and water than those damn server farms, and airgapped for security. I have a home NAS, but I always think "But what if my house burns down?" So I fell for the claim that the cloud is the safest... and "so convenient, store everything in the cloud, free up space on your devices!" Sigh, low-tech is soometimes the best. Cuneiform clay tablets, here I come!
b3lt3r@cheribaker even better - you can spin up an AIO (all-in-one) instance of Nextcloud which has open office collaboration so you get office and cloud collaboration with it. For (effectively) free
Brad Enslen @cheribaker But, but who is going to pay for Clippy in his retirement home?
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@cheribaker We tried giving our kids various of the free Office clones. *All* of them said, after a while, "please can I have the real Office." Something to do with wanting reliable file interchange with school.
@TimWardCam @cheribaker the closest free clone is softmaker's "free office", but it's not open source.
Fabien Trégan@cheribaker btw, I use markdown :D
@ftregan @cheribaker is there any way to write markdown then see the results, locally?
I need something like that so I can make markdown notes and then check them when needed and then press edit button and edit when needed.
I need something like that so I can make markdown notes and then check them when needed and then press edit button and edit when needed.
@patricus @cheribaker Codium (or MS Visual Studio Code for the unforked "metric" collecting version) does that, you can split view and scroll is synchronized. There are probably better (lighter) options, but I'm happy with text editor + local gitlab so I never really searched a better option..
@patricus @cheribaker
Screenshot of Codium with the last markdown I used. Preview on right. The gry mark on the left of second paragraph in preview show the one where text cursor is in the left pane. You can no click in previous to edit the work directly in text view though.
Screenshot of Codium with the last markdown I used. Preview on right. The gry mark on the left of second paragraph in preview show the one where text cursor is in the left pane. You can no click in previous to edit the work directly in text view though.
Reiner Zufall 
@cheribaker Looking at the down times it's more like Office 345 ;)
BardMoss the Bodhi Linux Guy@cheribaker Libreoffice does not solve all the issues of moving from M$Office. Other packages like SoftMaker Office (free version available, paid version about 1/2 the price of M$) or OnlyOffice may be better landing zones.