Notices by Joel Pomales (joelpomales@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft all of them except Antivirus if one uses #Linux.

Missing: a good password manager.

Unfortunately, the one thing I'm not to keen about @libreoffice version control is that is not as visual as others (Google Drive, Microsoft O365) nor is it very intuitive. You have to go save the doc, turn on versions and every time you want to save a version tell LO to do so.

I mean, once you turn it on it does save automatically but, again, visually is not that intuitive. This would be the thing that will make me work in LO for ever.

@nixCraft written, probably, in COBOL. That code probably has been running happy for 30 years. 😂

@nixCraft 🤭

@nixCraft and that's why I like to buy refurbs on eBay. These are computers that run well, and for my use case they are perfect. I have three such laptops.

I'm tempted to get a @frameworkcomputer or a @system76 laptop one of these days. I may get it refurbished, though. But the fact that these computers may end up in a landfill because #Microsoft stops supporting its POS operating system rubs me the wrong way. 😒

@nixCraft I was told they needed to go back to Dell. I had employees stop me on the hallways and ask me if they could purchase their laptops from the company. Others enquired about donating them to a school or other organizations.

Nope. They all had to go back.

I want to remain optimistic and I want to think that most, if not all, were refurbished, or responsibly recycled. I mean, these are older laptops that could run Mint, for example, without a flaw. 2/

@nixCraft the following is a true story. It may be lengthy.

About five years ago I worked at a company that divested itself from another. This meant new computers, new infrastructure, the works.

One of the things I was asked to do (I managed the Service Desk) was to coordinate the collection and replacement of all of the laptops deployed in the company with brand new Dells. The average age of these laptops was about 3 years, give or take. Some were less than a year old. 1/

@itsfoss aight. This blew my mind. 🤯

Did not know that @libreoffice could do this.

I'll have to try this.