Gyms closed for another 2 weeks.
Really getting quite sick of this.
@matigo I like LibreOffice on the whole but the experience just isn't as polished. I don't do too much complex stuff in spreadsheets (because no one I send them to would understand).
Also the Base report designer always crashes, and saves are horribly unreliable. That's been my experience for 10 years now, from the OpenOffice days to today.
@matigo A preview feature? *But real writers don’t need previews!**
/@hazardwarning @variablepulserate
@matigo There are 2 main things that keep me from adopting Linux as my primary OS: the command key set of shortcuts (which makes things so much more interesting for keyboard shortcuts, compared to only using the control key) and Lightroom (and more occasionally other parts of the suite).
That aside, pretty much every other soo I use has a Linux version or alternative (eg I’d need to find a replacement for Hazel).
The default mapping for diacritics in MacOS is also impressive compared to the compose key setup on many distros.
And Google Sheets is still too slow to be a 100% replacement for Excel. It’s superior in many ways (the finance functions are critical to my accounting workflow) but it just can’t work at the speed I want.
@matigo Hmm, I don't really have too much of an opinion on expectations during my university years.
I was in the top 3 in my cohort for undergrad because only a handful of people actually cared about their grade — most just wanted to pass. So there were definitely no expectations imposed on me by classmates. For my master's, the cohort was so varied in age/background/culture that people seemed to avoid passing judgement or imposing expectations, especially as we didn't do much group work.
I was lucky to mostly have great teachers who cared as much as I did. (Good for me because I often pestered them about things.) The few times I suggested something wasn't my priority, though, they accepted it without question, so no expectations there.
Also, that call I went into the office for this afternoon: sat around for 2 hours, waiting for the call to happen, being half-productive (such is the cost of being in an open-plan office) and then buggered off for a long walk. There's nothing like feeling that your time isn't being respected.
I report directly to the international CEO of this (admittedly small) company, who is based in the UK, so I didn't really interpret my being asked to a conference to speak to UK senior management (which would have involved at least one of the board of directors) as a "let's give the HK office some cheer during virus season".
It would be hard to deny that I miss being in university. Some nights, like tonight, are spent listening to music and reading research papers (almost in their entirety) just to learn about things.
@variablepulserate heh, thanks. There'll be no messing around today: in, straight into the call, then back out, and too bad to anyone who doesn't like it.
"Please come into the [now overcrowded and poorly ventilated] office this afternoon so we can have a call with the UK senior management."
Or we could all learn to set up a video conference and avoid the risks entirely…