Hawke @ Hawke @lemmy.world

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Not sure why the scare quotes around IDF.

Nah. It’s got a big fat [citation needed] from me.

10% of people? Sure I’d believe that 10 % of people have transferred data using fax technology at least once in the past year or something. But 10% of households, and you can’t count email to-fax gateways?

No way.

All good. I used to make a strong distinction between “video games” and “computer games” and at the time it was true but now the line has blurred to the point that the distinction is in interface style and the scale between reliability and versatility.

Nah. They might do it from work or maybe by email gateway.

Hell it’s only even possible for the 27% of homes that still have a landline. There’s just no way.

There’s not a lot of video games that don’t have software.

You’d have to back to what, Pong? I see Monaco GP from 1979 listed as one of the last TTL-based games from Sega, but not sure about other companies.

Seems crazy to me. I can’t imagine that 1 in 10 household even have fax machines. All the stuff you mention is business and medical stuff. Nobody faxes in their medical requests from home.

People can't "still" be doing something that they were NOT doing before!

An individual cannot but a group of people can.

“Children are still fascinated by sticks” is as true as always, even though the individual children have mostly grown up, grown old, and died.

Helps if you spell February correctly.

I just tried that actually.

Not at all impressed with its integrated OnlyOffice. I want an alternative to MS office not a clone.

Find me a replacement for Google Docs and I’m in.

You’re the one who brought up the origin of the term, why would you do that if you’re wanting to refer to the contemporary meaning?

prioritising public health over money

You must live in a different USA than I do.

Not really needed, you can click on the “memos” to see the corresponding artwork.

unless you explicitly mention that it's a DIY replica.

I’m sure the OP will be careful to let himself know that he’s made a DIY replica.

literally obeying the law in this case.

Yeah, no. That’s not how the law works. This is purely internal Google policy and licking trumps asshole.

Sometimes it makes a network connection work temporarily.

I find them okay, but I am much more concerned with consistent fonts than with a variety of decorative fonts.

The default fonts feel very old-fashioned though.

Moving this to a top-level comment.

Overleaf is fantastic, as long as you are okay with non-WYSIWYG document editing and learning some LaTeX.

Typst is also worth looking at, as a similar concept. It uses a very different language than LaTeX, but feels more in touch with modern sensibilities.

I’m not a huge fan of Google as a company, but Google Docs seems to be the first and only one that actually put some new thought into how to organize their toolbar, so that’s my go-to.

Edit: thinking a little further, my other go-tos are Overleaf or Typst. Those do require that you be okay with a non-wysiwyg editor of course, but they are excellent.

As long as you’re okay with an interface that slavishly clones the terrible MS-Word ribbon bar.