• Carter
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    1 year ago

    Are people regularly opening Microsoft Office documents? I don’t think I’ve touched one since I was at school, which I finished in 2012.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, but I understand what you mean. So many business and schools have switched entirely to Google Docs and similar.

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      1 year ago

      I joined the cybersecurity club at my school and they used word or pdf for submissions. I spent a good 15 minutes trying to get code blocks and proper formating working on either but it didn’t work. I gave up and just tool a scrolling screenshot of my blog and added a link in the docx file.

      (And yes, I tried pandoc. My blog uses quarto, a static site generator based on pandoc markdown, and it uses pandoc. I tried to generate word and pdf using it and they looked awful.)

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      1 year ago

      People use their computers for different reasons.

      Just because you don’t open office documents, doesn’t mean nobody else does.

      Try to see things from other perspectives than your own. It’s part of being an adult.