This is also true for other people.

The biggest issue is security updates and a current internet browser.

Of course I can use a 30 year old computer that still works with the software it can run.

LibreOffice is okay for some stuff, but shows its limitations pretty quickly once you use it for more serious tasks.

• Writer is the best of the suite and has deleted comments for me several times without ability to recover.
• The spreadsheet is a toy compared to Excel spreadsheets used in pretty much any business.
• The presentation software produces ugly results by default.

The only things LibreOffice has going for it, is the price and that the UI doesn’t change. LibreOffice has no good mobile apps.

Better alternatives to Microsoft Office are Google Docs etc. and Apple’s iWork suite. Both have good compatibility with Microsoft’s files and run great on mobile.

Google has ease of use, easy sharing and collaboration. Apple’s iWork has great usability and features and produces beautiful results by default. The suite comes free with every Apple device. Google Docs is free to use as well.

That’s of course ignoring the workhorse called Outlook. You can kind of approach its features with a handful of other applications, but won’t reach the same functionality.

LibreOffice has one unique application in its suite: Base local database. Microsoft Access and FileMaker used to very popular, but faded into the background over the last decade.

15 years is actually reasonable.

I have a ten year old laptop with an i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD. It still does most things, I bought it for initially just fine. Granted this was one of the best laptops you could buy at the time.

Apple stopped supporting it with a current version of macOS a couple of years ago sadly. It’s still possible to patch newer versions to install and run on the old machine, but it’s a bit of a hassle.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting. These are excuses, not reasons. There used to be waterproof phones with headphone jacks. Phones have become bigger since the headphone jack disappeared as well. So space isn’t really the reason.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

There’s still enough space for a headphone jack in current phones. They are omitted as a cost cutting measure.

Latency is still worse than wired. For gaming its somewhat okay nowadays, for making music its not.

When learning a new human language, it’s good practice to also learn sentences and practice speaking and writing, not just rote vocabulary memorization.

When learning a new human language, it’s good practice to also learn sentences and practice speaking and writing, not just rote vocabulary memorization.

Fantastic post!

Elite champagne socialists looking down on the actual desires of the poor and working class.

I agree with you.

Yes, banks are used for crimes on a massive scale. Usually that’s not available to small time people.

Crypto can be used for criminal activity with a low barrier to entry. There are several use cases where things maybe should not be illegal in the first place. Like buying drugs for example.

Helping men is possible in many ways that are totally independent of women. Better education from child level on how to process, express, and handle emotions. More spaces for boys and men to bond and do things as a group away from screens. Non commercial third spaces have almost vanished and are needed direly.

making women less biased against dating men that they “don’t need”?

Sounds like a typical incel meme. Almost all (hetero) women want a man as a partner. Even if they don’t necessarily need one to have a career, children, a bank account, live their own lives, and so on. The desire to share their life with a man is certainly there and strong. Maybe not in the basement you retreated to. The outside world is packed full of women looking for a suitable man as a partner.

Sexuality, procreation, and pair bonding are hardwired instincts in humans and still there.

Spend some time in places where actual real women are and listen to them to get a reality check.

There are so many mid 30s to early 40s women desperately looking for a husband to have a family with. That’s when those who thought they didn’t need a man, realize their deeper desire.

It’s a bit more complicated than feminists bad. What happened is that they were successful in many ways for example education is now dominated by women and girls have better grades and achieve higher than boys. Boys have fallen by the wayside. Boys only institutions that catered to their needs have shrunk, ceased to exist, or been replaced by mixed. Men’s issues like higher mental health issues, more homeless, more incarceration, more suicide, loneliness, addiction, etc. don’t get much attention. That’s not the feminists’ fault. Blaming men and patriarchy for every ill in society is of course an easy scapegoat and makes men feel guilty.

The far right caters to this feeling, telling men that they are okay, important, and accepted. They explicitly try to deepen the gap, not bridge it.

A better future and society is possible when we overcome the division.

Moral purity testing on the left has reached exhausting and reality defying levels.

Start with designing a physical card or board game. Play test it until it’s fun.

For artwork practice drawing on paper.

For writing write stories and dialogue.

Make or choose some music.

Use the above to make a video.

No programming required.

JPEG2000 can do exactly what you want for decades.

FreeBSD of course.

I read posts just like yours ten years ago.