Wally
nixCraft ๐งRE: https://mstdn.games/@Radgryd/115572829069249014
Somebody send this clip to Microsoft and let them know how customer see and feel about their products ๐คฃ
Andrew
Bob Tregilus@nixCraft I'm sure many are thinking it, but she should simply uninstall Office and install Libreoffice. Problem solved. Why do people put up with that kind of nanny software BS?
FoolishOwl@elaterite @nixCraft She said she writes longhand and only types it into Word as a final step.
She's not the only person who feels that connection between mind and hand she describes.
From what I've heard from other professional writers, publishers will only accept submissions in the form of Microsoft Word documents. I don't know why. I read a writer say this, who has written books on the fine details of Linux and Unix tools, so it's certainly not someone unaware of alternatives.
@foolishowl I don't get it? LibreOffice exports in a variety of formats including .doc and .docx. Fully functional documents with correction tracking &c.
ShadSterling@foolishowl @elaterite @nixCraft I hope Copilot honors the license agreement between the writers and the publishers, but I doubt many publishers have checked what copilot does with the content of the files they open
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krig@elaterite @nixCraft They put up with it because that is all they know. I am 100% certain that she has never heard of Libreoffice and is completely unaware that such a thing exists. She bought a computer and probably got Windows pre-installed, likely thinks that Windows and PC are synonymous and has no idea that there are alternatives for her computer. As such, she needed a word processor and the one proposed by her computer is Word and so that's the word processor. The question of putting up with Word doesn't even come up. And I think this is entirely reasonable and the way it should be. What is unreasonable is that we as a society let Microsoft first get into this position and second abuse that position to cement themselves as the default. The EU is doing some work here to force the monopolies to present the choice that is available but so far mostly only regarding web browsers.
@krig Good to know about the EU. Back in OpenOffice days, I took a banner I had created to the local university library to print it. It was in an OO format. They said they couldn't print it. I suggested they install OO. They said they were unable to do that as it would violate the academic MS agreement or contract whatever. So I had to export it in PDF and take it back to get it printed.
@elaterite @nixCraft Wow. That agreement seems exactly like the kind of thing that the EU would prohibit. But I honestly donโt know if thatโs the case. Microsoft is definitely dominant in the edu space here as well.
Funky Bob@nixCraft I honestly don't think they care.
It's only productive users that are being pissed off by it, and the choice of using MS/Office is typically made by managers, and other sorts who eat up the hype...
CaptainMalu@FunkyBob @nixCraft ... Schools... And which student wouldn't love to get her/his homework written by someone else for "free"!?
And schools get the licences for free so students learn this software and schools argument with it's business standard and business argument with the people knew it.
I hate Microsoft and AI.
I'm so lucky to be in a position where I don't have to use them.
Nixen@CaptainMalu @FunkyBob @nixCraft what's even more f**d up is that when students get used to it, they won't be able to function without it. They are basically trying to bring up a generation dependent on llms to do almost everything for them, so that they can guarantee it sells in the future. That's why it's free now :)
Alex M. Dunne (he/him)@nixCraft "Shall I re-write this for you?"
LFpete
Jill โ
The Fury ๐ง๐ปโ๏ธ๐ฅ
@nixCraft "but she engaged with it! It means users love it! Put more AI in things!"
- Some tech bro, probably
Cavyherd
@iveyline
Carolleisa@nixCraft Yesssss thatโs how I react
@nixCraft now I want web servers that detect AI crawlers to send this video as the response to every request from an AI crawler
Rasmus Lindegaard@nixCraft she needs to hear about libre office
Alexander Goeres ๐ฏ@nixCraft ๐ง well: don't use word! if you use word you earned what you get.
Nicole ParsonsMicrosoft, Google and many other tech companies have become reliant on investment by the fossil fuel industry.
It's an industry determined to retain its primacy via international state surveillance platforms.
Product development is entirely devoted to embedding spyware in everything.
Vehicles. Phones. Software. Household appliances. Drones. Nuclear
Trump just sold nuclear technology to the funders of 9/11.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-saudi-deals-expected-defense-nuclear-energy-ai-senior-us-administration-2025-11-18/
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Frans Super ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ FKNZS๐ป@nixCraft I am so fully with her on this issue. AI is being dumped on you like dairy farming dung but that's just so beyond irritation that I'm likely to flip out.
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I_give_u_worms@nixCraft please let this pop the bubble so we can have the technology and culture expelled like a malugnant cyst
@nixCraft This! And Colbert's remark then: "Have you thought about showing your computer your screenwriting Oscar?" ๐
Emma Thompson On Getting Paid To Be Funny, And Feeling โIntense Irritationโ Over A.I.
Mirko Schenk@nixCraft As if Microsoft would care about what the customers think. Their sh*t sells anyway.
Joseph Dickson@nixCraft absolute agreement and because this clip is uploaded to Mastodon I can actually download it and save it for future generations. ๐ซ