Originally posted by rebellovesrobots

Thank you for your service, AOL dial-up.

here's libreoffice, its similar enough to the microsoft suite to be useful to me.

its a free open source software. i downloaded this as soon as the AI shit rolled around and i stopped using MS suite & google docs because i was fucking tired of everything being online, but now if MS is gonna start charging for shit that should be free, only the more reason to use other programs. i know microsoft can be a little hard to escape but this is at least a start

notepad ++ it's free, it's slim, it has tabs, notepad but better in literally every way, you can customize it with tons of plugins, it's pretty much the standard in any IT company I've ever been at

absolutely going to add a thumbs up for Notepad++ - it does everything the old regular notepad does and far more, including tabs, while still being significantly more lightweight than the "updated" notepad that Microsoft put into Windows 11.

seriously the W11 notepad uses like 40-something megabytes of memory while running idle for some reason???

They added a paywall to notepad because people use it instead of word. 100%

Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation

(Review 2)

this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime

JasperDasper started out just curious why everything had suddenly become about trans people and questioning some of the sources used in a book. He came out of it, 4 years later, with a 5 hour long video that connects all transphobia to less than 60 people. (I'm not joking. literally every single transphobic rhetoric and bill passed is because of these 50 or so people.)

If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.