I use Calc, and it does just fine for my use case. But I know people in finance whose work relies on the powerful advanced features excel has and LO just doesn’t yet.

Funny enough, I haven’t touched a word processor or slide deck program in years.

I’m far from a spreadsheet super user, but Excel really is in a class by itself. The rest of the office suite, however, is easily replaced by open source.

Surely, someone should’ve seen Barb and my acquaintances and give them [first**name**][lastname]@server.com email addresses.

On a similar topic to your story, my mother worked at a high school when I was young, and in her second marriage her last name was Dick. Only took a couple weeks for her to go back to going by her maiden name at the school.

I knew two D. Adcocks. Their email address must be fun.

Its your life man, feel free to sell yourself short at will.

I am genuinely confused at this statement. How am I selling myself short and what is “at will” meant to mean?

Go back 10-15 years (and ignore everything we’ve learned about Elon Musk.) Tesla’s were objectively cool.

But now they’re high priced, and software locked, track everything you do and everywhere you go, will trap you inside if caught on fire, require costly body work if in a fender bender which also takes forever, have replaced buttons with screens and door handles with software, and depreciate like a lead balloon.

No, dumbass, we’re not against EVs, we’re against your version of EVs. If Honda ever puts out an Accord EV with Android Auto / Car Play (and priced appropriately), the EV wars are over. That’s all we want.

Because much of the stated reason for EVs is the money you’ll save on fuel and maintenance costs, so spending extra money on something you’ll use once per year doesn’t fit the money saving narrative.

Ultimately, what I and the other commenter is saying is a once a year “need” really isn’t a need at all. To further my example, if I lived in the snow or traveled there regularly, then AWD is likely a reasonable expense, but if very rarely used it would make more sense to rent/borrow. Same goes for a truck (for hauling), or gasoline car for the range.

I drive an EV now and my next car will likely be an ICE AWD vehicle. But I’m also aware that it’s not the most economically sound decision and I’d be buying it for fun. Under no circumstances would I be justifying it by the longer range (which I very seldom need) or to travel to the snow.

Not to mention the need at some point to replace the battery, which can cost thousands.

I don’t mention that and the depreciation bullet point to disparage EV adoption. It’s a good thing we are moving away from ICE to EV. But it’s a little like two steps forward one step back, and most people don’t talk about the one step back parts.

5. They depreciate faster than room temperature milk.

Now, that depreciation may be (or probably is) offset by the decreased fuel and maintenance costs, but I see this point too often ignored.

“Consider”, yes. But buy based on every need, no.

I go skiing once per year. Should I buy a vehicle with all-wheel drive just to satisfy that one need? Of course not.

Keyboard setup would be a system level setting, no?

I consider that a website problem, not a me problem. I choose what I do on the internet, the internet doesn’t dictate the software I use.

We need a POC on a bill, but Teddy is pretty cool too. My third favorite Republican.

I actually think it’s a pretty big miss that we didn’t have a $250 bill planned for the country’s 250th anniversary. Inflation makes a $250 bill reasonable.

Of course Trump on the bill is an abomination, but a $250 Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglass or Paul Revere or Sam Adams would be pretty dope.

Edit: upon further thought, Revere should be on a silver coin.

I’d agree that buying an Intel Mac Pro three years ago and losing support is shitty, but on the other hand anyone buying Intel in the past six years certainly should’ve known their days were numbered.

I’d imagine Intel Mac minis are approaching the price of a Raspberry Pi.

I’ll lift a comment I posted elsewhere on the topic of the name.

From a 9to5mac article on the topic:

Breaking with tradition, Apple didn’t name macOS 27 after a national park, lake, or other natural landmark. Instead, this year’s release is named after San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge.

Typical of 9to5mac “reporting.” The Golden Gate is a natural landmark, it’s the strait between San Francisco and Marin which the famous bridge spans. Nowhere in the OS release even says the word bridge.

Fun fact. While it might seem safe to assume the “gold” in Golden Gate refers to the gold discovery about 100 miles upriver that started the California gold rush, it was in fact named the Golden Gate prior to the gold discovery. John C. Fremont (my favorite early Californian) named it such because of the color of the hillsides when he first arrived.

For that reason, I wished they gave it a “Snow Leopard”-esque name. I’d have liked to see Lake Tahoe.

I appreciate the anti-gatekeeping sentiment here, but I can’t reconcile that with the judgment I think we’d have for someone wearing a Che Guevara shirt without knowing who he was.