Libre office does the job for me! Auto save on cloud sucks. At least you can turn it off! For now.
Auto save on cloud sucks
Why?
Because I do not want Microsoft to have access to all my documents.
This
As if windows does not send telemetry
Telemetry ≠ Uploading whole documents Which does not mean I defend Windows telemetry but it’s quite different
because your phone/laptop doesn’t have a global wi-fi connection, and you might want to open a document pause for dramatic effect outside of your home or work!
Not to be used to train AI. We promise.
LLM’s out here running wild. How Rude.Maybe I should switch to Linux again.
They’d break SO MANY international and data security laws if they tried breaking into people’s OneDrive, it’d be hilarious to see the number of lawsuits they’d lose by default.
they’re probably already doing that to a smaller degree, and slightly protecting themselves with an obscure clause in their TOS. besides, you only lose lawsuits if you get caught - and churning things through AI is a great way to erase any fingerprints that identifies stolen data
this has been goin on for like a year now. i have an offline profile with no onedrive on my machine, and tried the latest office. theres a slider saying autosave, but i was unable to use it. felt kinda weird that there is no autosave feature anymore. turns out autosave has been a cloud save option, and poor excel was not able to savemy private data to the onedrive datafarm. also the new excel is super slow compared to like the 2016 version, which indicates that theres more bloat under the hood.
im using a cracked version, i also dont have cloud for ms, no problem there.
I’d rather use old ass word perfect at this point
I’d rather chisel text onto stone tablets than that bs.
Just use libreoffice
To anyone thinking “LibreOffice still has issues”, here’s the LibreOffice donation page to help them fix it up and be rid of MS Office forever.
I still use Wordpad to write all my gay dinosaur erotica, am I safe?
Chuck Tingle, is that you?
Last time I checked there was Copilot integration in NotePad. So I wouldn’t assume WordPad is safe from anything
Mr Tingle, its an honor, and you should be at the moment, but please consider a more proper way of writing literature such as LaTeX or Vim
“or” ?
It depends how gay is it? And do dinosaurs mate in packs?
Scrivener ftw
For now… Next update they’ll add Copilot to it for reasons.
Cool It finally gets Google docs core functionality after only 20 years. How innovative.
Actually it had auto save for more than a decade. It’s just that now they removed the ability to autosave locally, it must be to onedrive.
It didn’t remove anything, they’re just changing the default save location. You can revert it if you want, it’s all in the article…
You haven’t been able to autosave locally for many years already. Changing the default save location is just for when you press save.
This is extremely minor. I don’t understand the fuss.
Google Docs has been a thing for 20 years? Wow I feel old
this is their patch for the whole disk data loss debacle
and also “let us train copilot on your college essays”.
Joke’s on them, because those were all written by Chat GPT 😂
Received an email this morning. Copilot is now powered by GPT5.
still valuable to microsoft!
I’ll just use LibreOffice, but… a lot of people just don’t care. Which does also impact us.
No, I don’t think they will. LibreOffice
Laughs in LaTeX?
I’ve been writing all my college papers in LaTeX and it’s been great. They look so professional, and it’s easier to work on a collection of text files than one monolithic document.
I swear typesetting your papers is worth half a grade point at least. Then once you find Zotero and realize it will automagically handle your citations and you have auto biblios and cites working in LyX…life changing, absolutely.
I’ve never learned latex but it seems like a huge learning curve. Never even proficiently learned vim yet
These days you can just use AI to make the outline for you and go from there. Should be easier than ever
Google doc for me. It is free and it is good enough.
That’s interesting, since Google Docs has always automatically saved files to the cloud.
Tbf, if they are in K-12 as a student or teacher, they’d probably have to use google docs anyways.
I’m waiting for them to edit the comment and add an /s tag.
Thank you to the skilled developers who bailed on OpenOffice when the shit stain company Oracle bought Sun, and formed LibreOffice.
I can only hope there will always be digital freedom fighters on the side of good.
I’ve donated to LibreOffice, and you should too, if you use their suite.
I love LibreOffice, but I wish there was an Android app. I’ve even considered learning more app development to try and help, but it’s such a daunting task.
Check out the Collabra Office android app. It probably covers your needs.
This here. Not fully featured but a decent reader and editor which we hope will improve with time. Good effort on the devs!
LibreOffice & Open Office Document Reader | ODF https://f-droid.org/packages/at.tomtasche.reader/
There’s a web port AFAIK, web dev has a lower entry level
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Idiots will still not know where anything is saved. Catering to the technologically illiterate has made society way more illiterate.
