I get what you mean, for it to be comparable I think we’d need a “should there be legislation to protect kids on the Internet” referendum and then this is the implementation and everyone hates it…

We very much did have a referendum on brexit though

We didn’t have a referendum on this though, and if we had done I don’t think it would have passed

That’s cool!

Ouch.

Is your username a reference to this song by the way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY

Yep, I got an absolute novel length comment from some far left .ml person as one of my first interactions on Lemmy.

And people who have no time install gentoo? Pull the other one :D

Checking in

Interesting, I think it’s different for structural engineering because you’re doing calculations in accordance with a code of practice and the spreadsheet needs to be adapted to tweak the inputs and outputs of a standard formula and apply it slightly differently for different bridges / structural arrangements. I’ve written loads of spreadsheets that have been used and adapted by other people in my company, I honestly don’t think they are that difficult to understand (or people wouldn’t have been able to build on them and adapt them).

I can see that lab software is quite different, especially if you have very well defined procedures and you are repeating exactly the same test again and again with the same inputs and outputs.

In structural engineering (bridge design etc), we use quite complicated spreadsheets for calculations; a database wouldn’t be the right tool for that job. We use excel because everyone knows how to use it and it’s easy to print to PDF and see the inputs and outputs and any graphical summaries you have added. Using a spreadsheet makes it easy to check and easy to adapt/change when you want to do a slightly different calculation next time.

I’ve tried building spreadsheets of similar complexity in libreoffice and it’s true they are very slow in comparison and more prone to crashing.

Libreoffice works well for some tasks and I enjoy using it at home but honestly if I tried to use it at work it would cut my productivity significantly. I’m probably using it more intensively than most people though.

Was not expecting that! What a dark character arc :D

What do you use nowadays?

HP are pretty awful when it comes to shenanigans with ink cartridges and all that, but HPLIP is great and deserves some credit.

I’m also mostly interested in slightly older games like Rome Remastered, I probably won’t be playing many brand new titles.

Might try and get Age of Mythology working as well as I have so much nostalgia for it!

What kind of games are you into?

Apologies if you’re asking for something different but I recently discovered https://annas-archive.org/ which is great for books.

Did you not switch to Nextcloud a while back?

Yeah and you also need execute permissions to read what’s in a directory, so 666 for the whole system means you basically lose access to 99% of files

In situations like this can’t you get superuser privileges back using grub?

It used to be quite a fun place, back before 2016… then it got flooded with extreme right wing people who didn’t stick to their containment boards.

Boards like /g/ (technology) had some good information.

It would be interesting to see post count excluding bots, to see if actual user post numbers are increasing