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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Shouldn’t be too bad. It’ll take a while, but you grab an example you have now in word, tweak it until it works in libreoffice and you’re done. The biggest issue I’ve had was constant transitions between the two. If you just move to one it’s a rough start moving, but once you’re there you just edit as always. Word isn’t even that great at keeping it’s own formatting, so it won’t be anything new except for learning a new program. it might get difficult once you get to links and embedding, I haven’t tried that in libreoffice so I can’t speak to whether it’s harder or not.

    Beyond that, you should be pdf-ing any finalized documents anyway.


  • You can set up a pretty robust backup system for pretty cheap if you already have the drives, and the knowledge to set it up yourself. I have two always on devices, an NAS that is my central location for important files, which syncs to a backup device with two hard drives that are synced at different intervals. If a drive fails, it gets replaced, and I haven’t lost the core of my backups, I might lose some incremental backups, but it’s more important to me that I have 3 copies available on different drives. 2 are in one location, the third in a separate location and my syncs are each an interation behind, so if there’s a huge screw up, it’ll take three sync cycles before the main copies are lost (not including the incremental backups I also keep).

    This setup allows you to replace drives as they fail so you can constantly update with technologies and don’t need to worry about what’s the best medium.





  • From the article, I wish them the best but this line of thinking is not the Linux way:

    The first app I installed on Ubuntu (on both my machines) was Chrome browser. While Chromium, the open source version of the browser, is available in Ubuntu’s App Center (its app store), the official Google version is not.

    If you’re wanting to give Linux a try, you gotta be willing to let go of the Windows way. Chrome is not better than chromium because Google. Don’t complain that a specific app is hard to get running if you aren’t willing to try the alternatives, especially if there’s literally a Linux version maintained by the same developer




  • Sounds like this is a no brainer to me. I’m a step parent to a brilliant kid who’s father is a complete narcissist, and I’ll tell you this, if a parent tells you to dislike the other parent, don’t trust them without evidence. Make your own decision, and listen to the parent that let’s you make it. A caveat is that a better parent probably won’t tell you all of the bad things they’ve had to deal with, and it’s important to remember that everyone is human and makes mistakes.

    It’s ok to have a relationship with both parents, and it sounds like you know which parent to trust. That doesn’t mean you need to cut your mom out of your life, you just get to have a different kind of relationship with her. I’m a fan of honesty, if either parent does something you don’t like, tell them so and ask them to stop. If they won’t, you’ve got a real good answer as to who you want to spend your time with.