It really did read like an AI output. I wouldn't be surprised if it was punched up by AI.

Ah the old Google "open but not open" strategy.

And I don't even think about it. Only Office is, unlike Libre Office, not opinionated with respect to the UI and is therefore so similar to MS Office that I can switch between both apps and not miss a beat.

Although Only Office has the advantage of implementing a bunch of QOL improvements that MS Office still has not implemented after all these years. One example that comes to mind is that the default image resize maintains aspect ratio, while in MSOffice you still need to hold SHIFT while resizing.

You know we should start migrating (or porting) our complicated spreadsheets from VB to python. This is a wise move for future proofing.

But I'm also very busy, and a little lazy, so I procrastinate and never do it. Some VMs now are so good that I just open these big visual basic spreadsheets in a windows VM, further delaying the necessary task.

Do you guys have a Windows virtual machine that you can tunnel into?

Don't take this the wrong way, but this is an answer to a question OP didn't ask. They were asking for a descriptive answer to the driving limit, not a normative opinion of what you think the limit should be.

Also your conclusion doesn't follow from the premise. (I could be wrong; but it really doesn't matter anyway considering the first paragraph of my response)

Underrated? It's the single most recommended distro for beginners.

They were probably familiar with the name "Google", makes it seem official and supported.

Unfortunately, OS Flex is the worst of both worlds; bad Linux distro and no Android runtime and libraries.

My work laptop with W11 already has the fans spinning very fast most of the time. When you turn it off you have this uneasy silence in the room.

After work, changing over to a Thinkpad with Fedora, it is silent, even getting it to play Rome 2.

No joke. I don't even know what Mesa driver version I have. I just don't need to know it's all in kernel.

I didn't know about this. Looks good.

Correct. Just use Signal. Problem solved.

https://fydeos.io/

But then how are you supposed to surveil citizens?

We can have those niche communities, but the problem is reaching out to the average user (who isn't in to tech) to join.

If, for example, some non-tech podcast decided to have a Lemmy community instead of a subreddit, then there would be a proportion people who join for that. But I imagine the numbers would be very low considering most shows also have other socials so many people would join the discord server instead. Also in this hypothetical, nothing stops someone from creating an unofficial subreddit which would likely become the popular one.

Tell me about it, it was very confusing.

That's the beauty of the fediverse, your preference doesn't restrict others freedom. There are non-tech, non-Linux, non-political non-defaultSubreddit etc communities that currently only have a following on Reddit largely because the community is not "in the know" about Lemmy.

I still think it would be a better world if the majority of people used Lemmy instead of Reddit, Signal instead of Whatsapp, Mastodon instead of X etc, despite all the dipshittery that follows when the majority joins.

I can't remember exactly. There are two app stores and Discover is one of them. If I was you I would boot into a live or virtual environment and check it out. I think it's explained in the welcome screen.

Sorry I can't remember.

Aren't they making a CopilotOS?

I suspect it's the recommendation from someone who hasn't used the product.