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Cancelled immediately after getting the email. I bought a pair of Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 each for myself and my wife within the hour
Worse than CoPilot is the new Notepad. Can close the program without saving the file, open it again and it is still there! WTF?
My work laptop as 64 gigs of RAM and the latest processor. It is admittedly the most high-spec work laptop I have ever used. Unfortunately it has Windows 11, which means it runs slower than a crappy Windows XP laptop from 2005.
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>I feel like Microsoft's whole thing with Windows 11 has been "just force the users to do what we want them to do, we know better than they do" My biggest gripe about Win11 is they stole from us the ability to move the task bar. It can ONLY be pinned to the bottom of the screen now. For the longest time, I was a top of the screen taskbar user. From what I've read, they have no plans to implement or change this "featu…
This seems extremely niche. Maybe even petty? Why do you care where the taskbar is? Remember that every change breaks someone's workflow : https://xkcd.com/1172/
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Coke Zero still exists? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Zero_Sugar
it's now coca cola zero sugar.
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It even has usable features, like inserting the current date and time (my cat showed me that one!)
First I've ever noticed this. I was little surprised it now has infinite tabs, did that come in with win11? I also noticed today that it has autocorrect, never noticed that before! I generally just use it as a clipboard for ascii text so it might be it's been like this forever.
this was one of my favorite uses as well, especially when copying something from Word. copying to Notepad before copying to a terminal has saved me from so much grief of debugging why something is acting other than expected
A lot of people use Microsofts products out of old habit and because they are simply not aware of any alternatives. I have helped alot of people try LibreOffice, which offers everything they need from their office suit. Most people also like that LibreOffice looks like what Word and Excel looked like before Microsoft changed up the menu system.
>A lot of people use Microsofts products out of old habit and because they are simply not aware of any alternatives. This is an incomplete take. People use MS Office because everyone else uses it. In practice, that means if you try an alternative, then there's no assurance that your documents will render or function the same way on an MS Office installation. I tried going all LibreOffice when I was a grad student. I…
The crazy part to me is that, with a family subscription, the new AI privileges are only available to the primary account holder and not the rest of my family. That’s nuts. > For Microsoft 365 Family subscribers, Copilot will be available to the subscription owner and cannot be shared with others. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/01/1...
Heh. Things like that drive my wife absolutely crazy. I get to tease her about Microsoft wanting my OK if she tries to do something out of bounds.
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The death of the high school essay will be when people realize best learning is done on the job and we get rid of highschools altogether.
We had child labor and it was horrible, if you only learn to work, and only learn through work then it leaves you vulnerable to exploitation by others. And an employer is highly motivated by capital to exploit you as much as possible.
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The death of the high school essay will be when people realize best learning is done on the job and we get rid of highschools altogether.
We had child labor and it was horrible, if you only learn to work, and only learn through work then it leaves you vulnerable to exploitation by others. And an employer is highly motivated by capital to exploit you as much as possible.
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> So much this, when you see Zuck or even Jensen Huang saying "software engineers won't be needed anymore" and being excited about it you get pissed off as a software engineer lol. The real story nobody is saying out loud is that CEOs are much more replaceable by AI than are software engineers.
CEO is the one job role that AI can’t take because AI lacks accountability. Who is the person using the AI that will get blamed by the board if they screw up? That’s the CEO, even if you decide to give them a different title.