Hi, I'm Brittany. INFJ | Aquarius | she/her. I used to write poetry, now I just reblog writing refereneces and quotes, sometimes social justice stuff that matters to me. Nerdy stuff over on my side-blog @renegade-skywalker. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
I had to say goodbye to my best friend and baby on Wednesday 🌈💔He was always so sweet, even through everything with his heart disease this past year, but in the end his heart was just too big. Finn really went through all nine of his lives and I’m glad I was there with him through it all to cuddle and take care of him in any way I could. Rest easy, my love 💖
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn’t make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you’re being snobbish or condescending when you’re just trying to be specific
Being slow in life is fine. Taking longer to figure life out than others is not a bad thing. Lots of super successful people were late bloomers, who knows what amazing things you could accomplish once you heal more.
When Margaret Atwood said, “there is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won’t let it.” and then Franz Kafka wrote, “And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid.”
when sappho wrote: “i want to say something but shame prevents me.”
The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again
Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.
THIS
“Why is pirating going back up?!”
This. This is why. People don’t mind paying a high price for software if it’s only the once, or every 4-5 years.
But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don’t?
That’s why people are pirating software.
It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).
However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available.
Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.
Or just download libre office or one of the MANY open source word clones
OpenOffice is completely free, legal, virtually identical and all of their files are compatible with MS office. You can even save in MS office formats.
I would recommend LibreOffice to OpenOffice– OpenOffice was last updated in 2011 (over 12 years ago from the time I made this)– and while it still works, there are newer and more supported forks of it out there.
LibreOffice is updated super regularly and has support on a ton of devices (I can use it on a Chromebook if I’m so inclined).
There’s also Apache OpenOffice, another fork of OpenOffice that gets updated, less often than LibreOffice, but still exists. However, it can’t export into any Microsoft format post 2007, which LibreOffice can.
I have a Microsoft subscription through my university so I generally use that these days, but when I’m on a computer that doesn’t support that, I use the LibreOffice suite.
By the way, LibreOffice Calc won’t forcibly turn all your numbers to dates in your CSVs, which alone makes it a superior piece of software to Excel
one thing i need to start living by is “become the thing that you want” if i want friends who throw themed parties maybe i should start throwing those parties. if i want someone who writes me love letters maybe i should start writing letters for the people i love. if i want to hang out at museums and pretty cafes maybe i should invite my friends to these places. and maybe even then i won’t find the kind of people i want to be around. but then i would have become the exact person i want to be around. and maybe that’s good enough.
