• ATDA@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Fun story, it’s called office 365 as when you see the price you’ll turn 365 degrees and walk away.

    Ok that doesn’t really work but God I love that stupid joke.

    Anyway I haven’t used office personally for ages and never seem to run into real compatibility issues with the meager personal/business overlap in my situation.

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      2 hours ago

      It made me chuckle a little imaging that you do a full 365 degree spin Infront of Microsoft and then walk away (in an awkward way), instead of 180 degrees to walk the opposite direction haha

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    3 hours ago

    Preaching to the choir here but LibreOffice has been excellent since my MSOffice license expired. Unless you’re working in an enterprise setting with MS-specific macros or online collaboration, there’s no reason to be paying for basic document editing software in 2025.

    There are also self-hosted and open-sourced collaborative editing suites available that I haven’t tried yet, but there are plenty of options

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    10 hours ago

    worlds most over glorified over priced office website that runs like a slug

  • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com
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    14 hours ago

    I use ms office 2007 it runs perfectly in wine and still has the cool version of wordart

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    I’ve had nothing but issues administrating Office 365. A price hike like this is incentivizing me to push other products like Google workspace.

    Nice parts are definitely user email tools and some of the audit tools, but I keep finding myself in scenarios where I get error 500s on the server side when I pop open dev tools and it’s like I don’t want to tell my users that they’re SOL but they sort of are if I can’t resolve some error on Microsoft’s o365 servers. Microsoft likes to ask what I did to fix the case if I fix it before they do and I just laugh and not rely to those. They can pay me extra for that or hire me if they want that info.

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    10 hours ago

    I guess I should be happy I applied a work discount, which extended my subscription until Oktober 2026 or something.

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      13 hours ago

      So glad I never had to deal with cable, or internet companies.

      Just $25/month with Visible and I have unlimited data with tethering.

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    12 hours ago

    I’ve been using one drive for my phone photos backup, joplin notes store and keepass. It seemed like the most economical solution cus other vendors don’t really offer 1TB, it’s usually something stupid like jumping from 200GB or 2TB. Don’t know if I should invest in a NAS or something, but I just don’t wanna deal with the hardware and networking if I have to open some ports at home , unless I can use cloudflare as well

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        10 hours ago

        Don’t even need home server, regular PC with a disk will do. Just fireup syncthing on both devices and voila. Can set syncthing to start on pc

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          7 hours ago

          Yep, absolutely.

          Although when doing so, that would make your regular PC a server. Doesn’t stop it continuing to be a regular PC as well.

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        10 hours ago

        Ya but wouldn’t I need to open up ports or host a VPN ? Otherwise my phone won’t backup unless I’m at home

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          7 hours ago

          You need a way to connect to your home server from the internet, yes. You can do it easily using cloudflare tunnels or using one of the many vpn systems for your phone.

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Oh shit maybe we’ll see someone companies switch to an alternative instead of paying microshit more money

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        14 hours ago

        Nextcloud is decent but it depends on what you want. Personally, I’d never use it again due to performance reasons but it’s a decent platform for cloud editing and stuff.

        I switched to Syncthing for file management across my devices. With it, I can sync my Joplin notes. It’s all I need in life. It was also easier to set up than a Nextcloud instance.