I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.
The thing is, is they’re always going to have a dedicated fanbase of parents who want to buy shit for their kids to keep them occupied for several hours a day so that they don’t have to participate in their children’s lives in any meaningful way.
I am IT staff and I’ve worked for government in the past.
No matter how easy you make the swap over, no matter how much money it offers to save, there’s gonna be somebody who has sign off level executive authority who will refuse to change anything, because it means changing something, and they won’t like it.
Making a company-wide transition from Microsoft to a free version that does exactly the same is not a simple change.
If you make the change, you’re going to see a huge upswing in the number of support calls. You’re going to see a huge upswing in the number of complaints. You’re going to see downturns in efficiency and productivity as people make the changes, not to mention the fact that administering libreoffice from an organizational standpoint is a completely different beast from administering office.
I’m not saying that it can’t be done, by any stretch of the imagination.
I’m saying that the human element is the largest factor in whether or not it would be done, and unless you are already the city administrator or a big to-do inside of the fish pond you find yourself in, you likely do not have the human capital needed to make the transition, regardless of every other benefit.
If you want to get this done, I would suggest preemptively installing libre office on every single computer in the entire organization and then slowly telling people to use it as the opportunity arises so that three to five years from now there will be enough people who have used it that the transition would not be a huge ordeal.
Short of that you need to have an executive mandate from on high come in and say, we are not using Microsoft Office anymore, we will use LibreOffice, here are your training hours, go.
They don’t jail you, they take every penny you’ve ever had or will have for the rest of your life.
It’s only fair, you becoming destitute for liking a post is far better than the risk that they didn’t get their $24.95 from you. /s
It’ll save you nearly $50 a month. So even if the customer service is exactly the same, you get to keep another $600 each year.
I switched to my local provider from Xfinity about three months ago, and my internet speeds are twice as fast for the same money.
When “hundredths fractions of security” fails to get a laugh, I know I’m in the wrong group of people.
Surely you understand how a stupid response to a silly statement like it is one of the sayings of all time can be appropriate in humorous situations, right?
I understand that you did not find it funny, but I hope that you can understand that it was my intention to be funny, and therefore a serious response is disproportionate.
I didn’t say it’s secure, I just said it’s security.
You can’t say that a solution is no security at all when it requires time and intelligence to bypass.
It is at least 0.01 security.
I wouldn’t necessarily trust that. I have used Xfinity for a long time and my IP address often went months without changing.
If I want to scream into the void, I can do that anywhere and anytime, and I do not need a web server to do it.
To quote Ariel, I want to be where the people are.
Just so that I get this out while it’s fresh on my mind, what’s wrong with the internet right now is cyberfeudalism.
The internet is essentially an infinite world, so no matter how much the large companies gobble up, we’ll always be able to go somewhere else.
That being said, it gets really fucking exhausting to move over and over again to different apps and different locations just so to talk to people without some greedy, megalithic corporation there, snooping on everything you say and ingesting your words to feed some abomination intelligence simulation or to figure out the best way to sell you a new pair of fucking socks.
All of that being said, I’m just saying it fucking sucks to continuously be a refugee, and what sucks about apps and companies and programs that end up selling out for a dollar is that if you don’t emmigrate to a new platform, you become nothing.
Alabama is the 49th dumbest state in the country.
If it weren’t for Huntsville, Alabama would be a land of wild ape men
I don’t know if it is due to some sort of baggage from using the Mozilla Sync service or what, but librewolf without Mozilla Sync is faster for use than Mozilla Firefox is for some reason.
I only swapped over a few days ago, but the speed up was big enough for it to be apparent to me.
I use readable names.
I’m using one system for testing purposes, so it’s called testingPC.
Any containers are named for the container purposes, like my pihole is named pihole.
My system is so boring that any person were to pick it up after I got hit by a bus would be able to figure out everything.
My boss makes over $250,000 a year and he also said that there’s no fucking way he would pay those outlandish prices for an NVIDIA GPU.
That’s how high the watermark is for me.
I would like to visit it like a museum, but I would never live here. There’s only 8 square feet out of 12,000 that isn’t infected with visual plague
For me it was the glass coffin guitar holder
I bet these are the ones that have adjustable color temps in the control box, but you’d spend your first month of living there just climbing ladders to swap them over.
And there are way too many ceiling lights in this house. It looks like a hospital waiting room.
I have heard that there is a modification you can do to put a resistor into the fan to lower the speed of the fan and quiet the server down. But I don’t know if that works on your specific brand and you would need to research the specifics yourself before making a hardware modification to a server you’re not 100% comfortable with accidentally destroying.
I can see that my reply was not taken very well, but I still stand behind it, even if it’s offensive to people, because I was raised by a parent that bought me toys in order to keep me occupied to prevent themselves from having to put any effort in to raising me
I carry a bit of a grudge about that, and that’s why my response was offensively toned, Because I know that if it happened to me, then it’s going to happen to other people.
If you were a better parent than my parents were, then my rant doesn’t apply to you, and good for you, and I’m happy that your children have such a good parent to raise them.