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- Comment on Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite 4 weeks ago:
Why is the ability to convert files relevant for the relevance of formatting text?
If my professor wants a double-spaced document with Times New Roman in 12 point font and 1 inch margins, that’s very easy to do with a plain text file as input (They can load a template with all their defaults in their WYSIWYG editor and paste my text in). If I, as a user, want to convert a formatted document back to plain text to read/edit it (which I prefer), this is unreliable, and can lead to malformed output, especially with formats like docx that contain images.
- Comment on Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite 4 weeks ago:
I disagree, if only for the reason that you can’t easily and more importantly reliably convert document formats to plain text. On the other hand, there are plenty of good tools to convert plain text to printable formats (like pr from OpenBSD).
- Comment on Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite 4 weeks ago:
As a student I would love if this resulted in more software portability in education spaces. As it stands, have the classes I take only want Microsoft proprietary formats (docx pptx etc), which results in me having to use a giant nasty WYSIWYG editor that supports those formats like LibreOffice instead my preferred tooling (heirloom-doctools, mandoc, or even better, plain text). At least some classes support PDFs, but I’ve yet to see a class that takes plain text submissions.
- Comment on Do you still use your Steam Deck much? 5 weeks ago:
I plug mine into a hub with hdmi and ethernet to use it for desktop gaming, and then use it as a handheld whenever I need to go on a trip. The performance is definitely… unusable in many games on the 1440p display I have it hooked up to, but I don’t mind running games at a lower resolution or with FSR.
- Comment on Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council 5 weeks ago:
Did “Twitch” decide this, or did “Some exec at Amazon, who owns Twitch” decide this?