I recommend trying out OnlyOffice. It's free and it's scarily similar to MS Office, to the point where there's no learning curve and it's impressive how they haven't gotten sued yet. Plus, it's got a Windows version so you can try it out without committing to Linux
I'm not a fan of LibreOffice, even with the GUI tweaks to make it look like MS Office, so I've been actively finding Office alternatives for a long time now. OnlyOffice is by far the best one I've found
If you're curious, then I would recommend you play around with Linux before something breaks. It's a horrible experience to have to scramble to figure out what to do when you're tight on time - better to learn the lingo first, so that when something does break, you can switch with no learning curve.
Plus, you might end up really liking Linux anyways. That's kinda what happened to me 2 years ago, I'm not honestly sure why I haven't tried Linux sooner
Left Reddit after the API debacle a few years back. Still lurk occasionally for niche things, but overall pretty satisfied with Lemmy as a replacement. It's a lot more human, I feel. Similar to old Reddit, before it went to shit.
There's a lot of leftist infighting around here - I would personally recommend you not get too involved. The big one seems to be lemmy.world vs. lemmy.ml
The problem that you're describing is that people aren't being socialized properly. The solution to that problem isn't to give people a chatbot, it's to socialize them properly.
It is going to happen, and it has already happened, but that's not really a future that we should strive for. IMO too much damage has already been done and there needs to be laws put into place to severely regulate AI companies
The answer, even with other OS's, it's typically yes you should shut it down. I always use sleep, but if I know that I don't have anything important open, I try to shut down
I've got some unexplained phenomena that happen from time to time at my lab (workplace). Valves closing for no reason, oddly specific equipment failures, that kind of thing. I don't believe it's ghosts, but also I genuinely can't think of any reason for why those kinds of things could happen. I just say that it's ghosts anyways because it's fun.
In any case, my belief is that out of all supernatural phenomena to possibly believe in, ghosts are the least horrible thing to believe in, so anyone who believes in ghosts gets a pass from me
Nothing serious, but he's well known for being impossible to work with. He has gotten into multiple arguments because he refuses to follow kernel development rules. When called out on it, he makes a big stink about it. Obviously his code doesn't get merged. Then he does the exact same thing again 1 month later.
He has gotten into multiple arguments with Linus Torvalds over his refusal to simply follow the kernel development rules. During those arguments he has made cheap shots at completely unrelated people, which then drags those people into the argument.
It's gotten to the point where apparently a significant portion of the kernel developers feel like he was negatively impacting the kernel, and Linus eventually removed his code from the kernel.
He's what you might call a Linux lolcow. And now he's doing even more lolcow things by... Getting weirdly attached to his LLM-sona
There's not much fanservice in Dungeon Meshi. I would say it's exactly like how you would expect it to turn out if you just played DnD and then hired someone to animate it. Complete with the player stupidity and boss cheesing.
The series does take time to build up - it starts off feeling like a generic gimmick anime, but the story and lore gets deeper the more you watch. And the gimmick (eating monsters) ends up becoming a lot deeper than you would expect. (I'll talk about it more below.) The storytelling is, in hindsight, extremely efficient, but the writers just never draw attention to the info that you're supposed to remember. So I think it's one of those series where you really have to rewatch afterward in order to pick up all the lore tidbits that the characters just toss around.
Speaking of lore, I would say that the worldbuilding is one of the most extremely detailed that I've seen in any media, where it touches on really mature topics like implicit (and explicit) racism, tribal tensions, political feuds, cultural differences. And every little thing must have an explanation. And there's actually different races of humans in this world, each with their own nation and culture. I think it all ties back in to the core theme of the series, which is that eating is so fundamental to life that it influences human culture. And, inversely, that because eating is the one universal constant across all cultures, it is the one thing that can unite people. Over the series, you stop seeing "eating monsters" as a gimmick and it starts becoming more like a thesis. Like, "yeah, of course it would be a show about eating. What else could be so fundamental to discussing the human experience?"
Touching on the typical icks with anime (oversexualization, often with minors, harem, OP main characters, etc.): the series actually avoids all of the typical anime pitfalls. There's no sexualization. Characters don't talk or hint about sex at all. No revealing clothing, and all characters dress appropriately for their job/environment. There is one single scene where one character tries teaching another character about sex (giving the "birds and the bees" talk), but it's not sexual in nature and IMO it is really meant to highlight a common implicit bias in this world (the character receiving the talk is actually a grown adult, but due to his race, gets infantilized frequently). Speaking of grown adults, every character in the show appears, acts, and is a fully grown adult. And as for power scaling, the main characters don't have any OP skills and never learn any OP skills. They're just a standard party of adventurers, and it's made clear that the only reason they're successful is because of the party's deep understanding of monster biology and dungeon ecology and their willingness to use creative solutions to difficult problems (aka: cheesing every boss).
As a complete side note, I think it has one of the best and most accurate representations of autism that I've seen. I'll leave it vague, but there are several characters that are strongly autism-coded, and the writers really went above and beyond to show how autism is interpreted differently by others when the person in question is a male or female.
Overall, I'd say I highly recommend the anime. It instantly became one of the best animes that I've watched, and it's an anime that can be enjoyed casually, or analyzed for lore to hell and back, or analyzed for its literary merit. (If it wasn't clear, I'm part of the 3rd group. I really enjoyed how coherent its thematic messaging is and how skilfully it tells its story)
Other than locking the janitor in the bathroom, feels like a funny and harmless senior prank
OnlyOffice. Good compatibility with MS Office, and UI is basically equivalent
What I meant is colloquially, of course. I use a rotary cutter myself, but if I need someone to pass it to me, I just call it a pizza cutter. Less confusion and people just understand what you're referring to. So my question is, do people actually call it a rotary cutter in common usage
(I'm asking in a serious context, by the way. I feel like I can't be the only person who just calls it "the pizza cutter tool")
To be pedantic, some MAPK's are activated by mitogens. We're conveniently ignoring that fact because what's more funny is that some MAPK's are not
Hmm... Interesting question. Not a lot of time, on average. Even at home, there's always some sort of management or planning to do. Always need to think about what comes next. But the busyness comes in waves. Occasionally I get a week with really nothing to do. And then, inversely, there are weeks where everything is happening all at once and it starts to feel like I can't keep up and things are starting to slip. I'm currently in one of those weeks, but I'm sure it'll pass. Just need to get through it. That's the life of a researcher for you. There's definitely a level of masochism required for this sort of lifestyle