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Phil

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

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Martin Holland

That means, this sheet is more powerful than the one I built on #GoogleDocs. That's all thanks to #DataTables and the very helpful community there.

I'm quite certain, that there are still mistakes with the languages and the country of origin, so if you spot one, please tell me. @Flipboard has a helpful sheet with all accounts, they federated, but it doesn't contain languages and no country for about half of them.

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Martin Holland

My always up-to-date table of now 942 verified media accounts in the #Fediverse (which is not on #GoogleDocs anymore) is beginning to be helpful:
➡️ fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview

I added a custom search builder (above the table at the left) that gives powerful options to filter the whole database.
There are now also the first bridged media accounts from #Bluesky und accounts from other software in the #Fediverse (like from @index): Search by Software.

Next is styling the page a bit 😅

All verified accounts by media organizations available from the FediverseMedia in the Fediverse
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Josh Wells

EDIT: Problem kinda solved by deleting all browser data, but still weird because I've never heard of Canva and run several privacy extensions simultaneously in Firefox. Any further comments welcome, but problem is at least resolved if still unexplained.

Help needed #Google #GoogleDocs #GoogleDrive

Background: I often make Google documents to share with students to edit, set to public, no login required.

Problem: Today it seems that something called "Canva Integrations" is required for somebody to access a newly made public/edit Google Doc link. This is pervasive across several Google logins, including my work-based enterprise access.

Older Google Docs, including as recent as last week do not seem affected.

Is this Google's new business model? Something else?

#HigherEd#HigherEducation#EdTech
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Simon

Ich suche eine Alternative zu Google Docs, die folgenden drei Kriterien genügt:

* Hosting in der EU
* Möglichkeit, Texte per Link zum Bearbeiten mit unangemeldeten Personen zu teilen
* Android-App, die meine Augen nicht beleidigt

Muss nicht gratis sein (Testphase wäre praktisch). Muss außer Text und ein bisschen Formatierung (fett, kursiv, so was) nicht viel können (Tabellen, Gleichungen, Code sind nicht wichtig).

Ich dachte an iA Writer, aber die haben (aus verständlichen Gründen) keine Android-App mehr.

Ich teste gerade OnlyOffice. Das ist okay, aber besticht durch eine 90er-Jahre-Optik und Fonts, die irgendwie alle pixelig aussehen. Es funktioniert, aber macht keinen Spaß. (Außerdem lädt mein Testdokument gerade nicht.)

Hat wer noch eine Idee?

#GoogleDocs#Alternative#EuropeanAlternative
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doctorambient

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.

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