There was a period where I would fast every thursday into friday, 24 hours, but I allowed myself water. No real issues. Less impactful than a single beer or smoking some pot.

That being said I have huge respect for those keeping Ramadan.

I think the need is to get the users configuration working in its current state; It doesn’t sound like they’ve got a second machine to burn a boot USB with.

Okay. If you can get into Pop, you are good. Fixing the resolution is straightforwards.

Yeah, this is exactly what I was thinking, that “surely this must already be a thing”?

But yeah. I can’t think of something. I mean, its like, you’re already downloading the data. Just write it down somewhere else.

A log of pages loaded?

Keep going I’m almost there…

Bruh if you had a live stream of this I would subscribe to your only fans.

Its gotta be the sox.

Me with the OLED and the original:

My sources are almost all covering it exclusively.

Passing versions back and forth with comments and track changes. Basic details around formatting. Again, I don’t blame LO, I blame MS, but its simply more straightfoward to work in native office.

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I will consider this. I don’t have a problem paying for software. So this seems potentially viable. It also seems potentially un/under tested for my use case. I really can-not have the situation where things dont basically “just work” with regards to document collaboration.

Yeah. I use LibreOffice for everything but my professional writing. I can’t use it for that. It simply doesn’t play nice in a manner I can rely on for professional collaboration when everyone else is using either native microsoft office or office on apple.

If I lived in a world where everyone was on libreoffice, it probably would be fine. And I don’t blame LO for the issue, I think MS specifically makes their product hard to cooperate with. But that doesn’t resolve the issue of passing drafts back and forth with collaborators.

So I start the VM when I need it, use the app I need, shut it back down. The VM has no internet access, only a designated VLAN with no outbound, and any documents going to or from I use a thumb drive. Excessive, yeah, but its how things work for me.

This was my thinking, but office suite, and the documents would get saved to the NAS. How do you manage it as a VM? Are you using proxmox or similar? Do you use a setup script of somekind? What version of microsoft? Keys?

No… but we do need to be able to access all features of document composition. I’ve never used the free web version. We’re pretty hung up on doing things locally, on our compute, without having to have access to the broader internet.

I use libux btw

Proxmox?

And yes. Its like a full time job to homelab. Or a part time job. Its just hard, and sometimes things just don’t work.

I guess one answer is to pick your battles. You can’t win them all. But things are objectively better than they were in the past.

This is great and I appreciate it being posted.

I really want to figure out how to get into at least some linux development, purely for my own greedy purposes of wanting to have a working machine.

It depends HEAVILY on your chipset. I have a costco HP i bought as a backup that works seamlessly. Literally seamless at all times. Its a commodity piece of hardware. Millions of these things made.

My bleeding edge, new machine, cuts out, audio stutters, sleep issues; you name it: looking at you mediatek.