So you are not using office, you are using a web application that gives you a “window” into microshit 365. Then of course you wouldn’t be able to do anything with LibreOffice but I guarantee you your IT is just one exploit away from an expensive nightmare. I would quit such a job right away if I had an option not to starve.

Whatever you tell yourself to sleep at night.

if I have to explain to you what the point of a technical device that you can self-administrate would be, then chances are you are not a software developer.

Yes? And what would prevent the sharing here?

document compatibility issues

Those can be avoided for all documents and presentations that are not written by multiple people at the same time. In practice, such use cases exist, though - but in order to enable my own full productivity I have managed to cut those ties.

in an IT position I wouldn’t be able to replicate issues a user is facing

Having to support users of Nadella-Assholesoft (NA) is a whole different issue. No one can reasonably expect to have any job relief because they hate NA when they sign up for an IT support position for NA.

The benefits of Linux for me (no ads, no telemetry, familiarity of the terminal and config files, open source, privacy, sticking it to big tech, etc.) just don’t translate into things that would make me more productive at work.

You are obviously prioritizing what’s important to you. That’s pretty normal. However, anyone who wants to and can switch, your switch, fighting the uphill battle to get Linux more widespread. Especially now that the divided states of southern northern america have gone off the deep end and turned full-scale fascism. Any silicon valley oligarch product you manage to cut from your life will protect the lives of innocents in america and elsewhere in the world (palestine, for one).

Convenience is no longer a good option when it comes with fascism and support of genocidal regimes.

There are collaborative tools in Office that are used by the sorts of people who don’t know what LibreOffice is.

I know. But I do not see how those would keep the knowledgeable people from working in LibreOffice and saving their documents in OOXML.

There’s also certain internal policies that tend to classify information in ways that work with Office.

If an organization relies on “classifying information in ways that work with Office”, the IT security probably has no idea what they are doing.

you literally asked “how” people could avoid nadella-asshole-microshit software

-> technical device - for productive employees that’s an actual option, but you may have to prove to the organization that they benefit from enabling your full potential

only in jobs were you’d be looking for a way out. The only things you can’t do in LibreOffice is be 100% layout identical with the same document opened in Nadella-asshole-soft office (but still you get reasonably close), use macros (and people who create documents with non-VBA macros deserve to be slapped anyways) or use VBA (that’s the real downside, especially in spreadsheet calculations). LibreOffice Basic isn’t really practical to use, sadly.

well 'scuse you, but you said you were a software developer. any SW dev worth their money can at the very least get a self-administrated technical device not to be hooked up to the intranet, because corporate IT sucks donkeyballs.

? How? -> LibreOffice

Oh this is so good…

To human perception a 0.1 seconds isn’t much different than 0.03 seconds

You are making the mistake of thinking about reaction times. What matters much more in shooters is that our brain adjusts for the ping. That affects:

• aiming with a lead of a few pixels. And in a fast moving environment, with skilled players, aiming for a lead of 30ms is absolutely a few pixels that can be targeted intentionally
• the time between triggering a shot (nerve signal to the trigger finger) and the last chance that the target has to dodge / change direction -> in such games, players are rarely running in a straight line, and more often running preemptive zigzag / evasive maneuvers even when not getting shot at. 30ms more ping means that on every shot taken, you lose 30ms from the window in which your target still moves in the direction you thought it was moving. Even if the target only changes direction only once per second, that’s 3% lost from the time window in which you can predict where to shoot. Actually more, because you have reaction time after a direction change, before you can even consider aiming.
• furthermore, when a player with low ping gets hit by non-instant-kill ammo, they will dodge within their reaction time. Assuming the attacker chain-fires, they lose 30ms of ammo missing the target before they can adjust aim or stop firing

Yes, that little of a difference absolutely matters, proven by the observation that it went both ways. I could become the clear winner, or my opponent, based on who had the lower ping, whereas in equal ping settings the games were much more balanced. It’s easy to tell when you regularly play against the same people.

That’s how fast paced shooters work. Don’t think about the crap that people sell as “shooters” nowadays which is adjusted to playstation controllers or similar BS.

Think quake, unreal tournament, quake arena, openarena.

As an amateur, in a fast paced shooter, vs. an equally skilled player, it went from a fair match with equal pings to one player dominating the other with 100 vs. 70 ping.

My first thought ^^

Not in Europe - for now. Will be different of course if fascist America murders us all over here. Or Putler. Doesn’t make much of a difference in the end…

Then again, in a world that needs developers badly everywhere, a developer that stays in a job where management forces them to maintain crappy software, is an idiot (or plain greedy). /also a developer

I couldn’t bear the cringe anymore when the

Show sucks from season 2 onwards. Ridiculous and unbelievable drama of unstable personalities