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Factors:
1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.
2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people need the fancy features advanced text editors introduce.
3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.
4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.
5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.
6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but is still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after three years of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)
6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.
TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.
#plaintext #emacs #txt #notepad #bloat #bloatware #saas #googledocs #msword #microsoftword #rant
RE: https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6uy06mot0
IpseityIpseityA family instance.
I swear that I will never again write a scientific paper in either #MSWord or #GoogleDocs. Ever.
I don't care that my collaborators in a medical school can't handle #TeXLaTeX or #Markdown. The costs of final typesetting and conversion are just Too Fucking High.
It's costing me more than a week of my life just to do menial shit that is fully automatic with my normal workflow. smh
I know that my normal tool chain lacks some collaboration tools, but I just don't care anymore.
Did you know that the history of Interlisp crossed with the history of modern word processors and MS Word?
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@steveroyle Just add a note apologising to the reader and use a conversion tool. Don’t even open the file. Just send it to the publisher. Then use the time saved to take a walk. Life is too short to waste it on #MsWord.
How to Protect Word Documents in C#: A Step-by-Step Guide.
https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/protect-word-documents-in-c-sharp?utm_source=alvinashcraft&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alvinashcraft_blog_edmfeb25
#csharp #dotnet #howto #msword #syncfusion
How to Protect Word Documents ...
Syncfusion · How to Protect Word Documents in C#: Step-by-Step Guide | Syncfusion BlogsThis blog explains how to protect a Word document using the .NET Word Library in C# with code examples.
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Remember, #Office365 has everything that you enter into it also go into their #AI called #CoPilot .This might not bother you, but if the subject of AI scraping your documents is important to you, then try to find an older offline copy of #MSWord . But then one problem would be to have a copy of Word on every device you use.
You can also use #LibreOffice (which I am told is very similar to Word) or #GoogleDocs (a Cloud program that probably shares your data to Google's AI), which is very similar to Word.
Free #Accessibility Workshop:
Make your Documents accessible to people who are #blind
January 28 2025, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Eastern via #Zoom
Register at:
https://nfb.org/form/accessibility-boutique-reg
#A11Y #PDF #MSWord #GoogleDocs #NFB
nfb.orgAccessibility Boutique Registration | National Federation of the Blind
Addio alla ricerca dei sinonimi integrata in #Word. Peccato, l'ho sempre trovata super utile 
#Microsoft #MSWord #MicrosoftWord #Thesaurus
https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/microsoft-rimuove-il-thesaurus-da-word-siete-sconvolti-quanto-noi-2025-01-23
Tom's Hardware · Microsoft rimuove il thesaurus da Word: siete sconvolti quanto noi?
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@sven @kaffeeringe OK, bin nicht der erweiterte Familienkreis, aber bei mir hängt es an dem Veröffentlichungssystem des #BeckVerlag die eine Mischung aus eigenem Programm und Makros in #MSWord die regelmäßige Aktualisierung der Kommentierungen in der Fachdatenbank auf dem Desktop steuern. Das ist sozusagen das #SAP Problem der Beck-Autorenschaft....:)
Another new blog post for you: "2025 Photo Calendars (part two)"
https://www.wolfnowl.com/2024/12/2025-photo-calendars-part-two/
Another new blog post for you: "2025 Photo Calendars (part two)"
https://www.wolfnowl.com/2024/12/2025-photo-calendars-part-two/
Update. As you can see, I welcome #AI training on my (nonfiction) publications.
But I hate the idea of AI training on my unpublished drafts. Among other things it could make my future publications look plagiarized or AI-assisted. If you share that aversion, and if you use #MSWord (even if rarely and reluctantly like me), I urge you to turn off the setting that gives #Microsoft permission to train its AI tools on your docs.
https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021
Thx to @clawrenc for the alert.
ILLUMINATION · MS Word is Using You to Train AI - ILLUMINATION - Medium
"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.
If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.
I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:
On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"
https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021
ILLUMINATION · MS Word is Using You to Train AI - ILLUMINATION - Medium
Another new blog post for you: "2025 Photo Calendars (part one)"
https://www.wolfnowl.com/2024/11/2025-photo-calendars-part-one/
NB: We've updated this post to include creating output with #CaptureOnePro
