In the wake of the dual strike I would like to remind everyone that “hollywood elites” is an antisemitic dogwhistle and if you are referring to company executives call them executives
“i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it” good news! it’s amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike
Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.
the issue with the dishes and getting rid of leftovers in the fridge and so on is that Well you dont want to do it because it sucks and is gross. so you can avoid it for a while. but watch out! because now its worse
we need to go back to hating tumblr. no more hellsite (affectionate). don’t even think of giving these clowns your money. if i see you with a checkmark next to your name i’m opening fire
The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again
Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.
THIS
“Why is pirating going back up?!”
This. This is why. People don’t mind paying a high price for software if it’s only the once, or every 4-5 years.
But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don’t?
That’s why people are pirating software.
It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).
However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available.
Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.
Or just download libre office or one of the MANY open source word clones
OpenOffice is completely free, legal, virtually identical and all of their files are compatible with MS office. You can even save in MS office formats.
I would recommend LibreOffice to OpenOffice– OpenOffice was last updated in 2011 (over 12 years ago from the time I made this)– and while it still works, there are newer and more supported forks of it out there.
LibreOffice is updated super regularly and has support on a ton of devices (I can use it on a Chromebook if I’m so inclined).
There’s also Apache OpenOffice, another fork of OpenOffice that gets updated, less often than LibreOffice, but still exists. However, it can’t export into any Microsoft format post 2007, which LibreOffice can.
I have a Microsoft subscription through my university so I generally use that these days, but when I’m on a computer that doesn’t support that, I use the LibreOffice suite.
By the way, LibreOffice Calc won’t forcibly turn all your numbers to dates in your CSVs, which alone makes it a superior piece of software to Excel
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