GrindingGears @ GrindingGears @lemmy.ca

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I'd vote for the Bloc Quebecois before I'd vote for PP, and I live in Alberta. I mean it too.

Can hardly wait for our days with Trump wanna be Jr.

Buddy is going to figure out the hard way day 1 that there's more to leading a country than hurling insults at others. But then will just carry on doing so, while everything else melts around him.

Hopefully a good couple months of watching what's going on down south will smarten every one up, but I have zero faith and a whole lot of doubt that it will.

Seems a lot snappier for sure!

Nothing screams, "I'm a piece of shit", like basically putting on blast you are a piece of shit. I, too, never fully agreed with DEI as a whole. But I understand and appreciate the context and the point, and the necessity. It's nothing to be mocked.

I also don't look at the video game industry for inspiration though. Somehow the video game industry has a more rape-y and toxic culture than even the grimiest hockey dressing room. All that incel rage, I suppose.

You might be able to find the APK somewhere for pandemic. Might not work for the modern android builds, that's likely what it is. That game was hard a f___.

I was a Bluesky fan, until it was announced they took money from Bain Capital last week. They'll quickly be forced into monetization, and enshitification, thanks to their new corporate overlords. Who just happen to be one of the greasiest PE firms in existence.

Don't put your blinders on folks.

Apple has been dead since Jobs took his last breath. He was pretty morally bankrupt too, but at least the products were innovative. Apple hasn't done shit since, except milk a very milked out cow to death.

Praise be. By his hand. May the Lord open.

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I use Dynamics365 as my accounting software to keep track of my own personal stuff, which is tied in pretty tightly with excel, I wouldn't be able to export anything without it. Actually I'm not even sure I'd be able to use it at all really. I also use Word more often than one would think, just for general around the house things. My investments too, like I use excel exports to do analysis on tables of data, stuff like regression and 50 day/200 day plotting, and general chart analysis. Probably could maybe get away with that on the free stuff, I'm not sure.

You don't need pro to do any of this. The normal Office Home license is sufficient. And for personal use, it would be a real son of a gun if you accidentally downloaded them off the office website and then went to https://massgrave.dev/ and by grave mistake typed in a few of those commands

You probably don't for personal budgeting and tracking of items for tax purposes. Any run of the mill spreadsheet will work just fine for that purpose.

I'm a chartered accountant though, like think of me as a free agent if you will, I'm not tethered to anything or anyone. I do professional work or give professional advice in exchange for currencies of various origins. My work as such, is a bit more complicated, and I need Excel. Sometimes I have to shared access to files for instance, or I need to share a file with someone, who won't have libre because they are using Excel locked behind a corporate environment they don't control. Libre Calc does have some unique functions that I'd argue Excel doesn't have, but on the flip side Excel has more advanced functions, and xlookup, which I pretty much use every day. Google Sheets isn't even in this conversation, and I personally have a hard dislike for Google Workspace apps in every form.

It would be nice if there was an actual alternative, and I think Libre would probably be the closest viable one. The gap is narrowing. Microsoft Office is atrocious in price, but thankfully easily hackable though, although in a professional environment you have to be more careful with this, than you personally would care to be. It's also a memory pig for absolutely no reason, and so full of historical bugs they haven't cared to fix for 30+ years. Plus some new ones that are infuriating. And you could set Microsoft Word on fire with no complaints from me.

Yes. I'm a self employed professional. I mean I have different computers, I have my laptop for instance which is for work only. But it's still my laptop.

But also have a gun culture where someone walks into a primary school cafeteria full of defenceless toddlers and fires off 300 rounds from an automatic, yet only hits like 10 kids. No these types of "Americans" are fucking animals, and are dumb as shit.

This ain't walmart. Remember that. Also they are like 0 for 6, or whatever it's at now.

Wait, are you meaning to tell me there's a population outside of Edmonton or Calgary? Strange. I mean we've been hearing noises in the night and stuff like some mysterious lights off in the distance, but we just ignore it.

Now that you mention it, I thought I saw some bush people spraypainting COVID is a Hoax on some corn bails out in the country once, but I told myself I must just be hallucinating and it was really just Jason Kenney in disguise.

He's above the law, re: the boating accident.

The wealthy get away with way too much shit in Canada too. Don't get me wrong, we don't want to be the USA, please kindly go fuck yourself for anyone thinking that, but that aside we aren't a problem free country either.

That new UX for outlook is infuriating though. I had to switch back to old outlook.

I'm an accountant. My life would be plenty hard without Excel. Google or LibreOffice are nowhere near sufficient. As much as I hate to admit that, because I'm definitely no fan of Microsoft, but for me there's also no alternative.

I'm also old enough to wish that LotusNotes and Lotus123 won the race. LotusNotes especially, it was the shit.

I would personally advise them not to, but Sega was never known as an astute business decision maker.

I always had a soft spot for Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land. Also Tiny Tunes: Babs Big Break. The Final Fantasy Legends games are good too, I particularly liked the second one. The Pokemon games are clutch too. These are all original Gameboy games.

I also think they are a bad idea, just for the general scale issue if not anything else. If person X from GeneralScammyHack country wants to steal my plate to sell on the darknet, they have to get on a plane, find my house in suburbia, break into my garage and even then find a proprietary screwdriver or hit the snap on truck before they come. Point is, they can't hack it. Same with my license, like they need to come take my wallet or I need to lose it. Basically all I have to worry about is Methany peeling my plate off at the 7-11 and committing some super low level impropriety, maybe a local murder or two. I'm not going to find Jason Bourne using my plate in New Jersey or anything like that, and if I do, it's just odds and quite an involved level of forgery.

It's a numbers game for me. I think it really does depend where you live, and what you are downloading. 30+ years for me for the record, but I'm generally pretty low on the arrrrrr scale. Basically I'm guilty for like suburban house wife levels of pirating, downloading albums not yet released, the odd movie and maybe one to two PC games a year. Actually I'm a pretty big book pirate too, and I guess I do have IPTV, but my point is it's all for super-micro levels of personal consumption, I'm not wholesale uploading, I'm not resharing it, nor am I dealing in anything weird or gross. So wasting your time on me isn't going to be very fruitful, zero impact to the greater world and economy. Hence I don't waste much time with VPNs and all of that, I just don't think there's much reason to. Plus I don't fully trust that the NSA or whatever bureaucrat-org doesn't have a way to front run your traffic out of the ISP even before it hits the VPN.