Ok, Toph is just one of the best characters in fiction, she’s fantastic! And yeah, that totally counts.

Celebrating your 20th anniversary is a good indicator of the right relationship.

I just think banning them outright is bad for needing to contact parents, especially for kids like me who had after school activities often.

Ok, well that’s completely ridiculous.

Look, 25 years ago nobody had cell phones in school. Kids had just as many after school activities, this wasn’t a problem. It was sometimes inconvenient, but not a problem. It’s also worth remembering, many rooms in every high school have phones, you’ll be able to use one if you need to.

I get wanting to have your phone throughout the day, I do. But on the other hand… no.

but people here in Lemmy (same on Reddit years ago) completely lose their shit with that idea

I’ve practically never seen anyone over 19 who was opposed to this idea. It’s obviously the right move. Phones don’t belong in school.

If you want to get all fussy about the “danger” of being without a phone, they can be allowed to keep it in their lockers until the last bell rings. There’s literally no down side to this and a whole lot of up sides.

I’m glad that age has given me the comfort to tell people when I just don’t know, and therefore, don’t have an opinion on some things.

Yeah it certainly seems to me that as people get older they tend to have fewer shits to give in general. What’s funny about it, is that while that sounds like a bad thing, it’s often a pretty good thing. It means people are more confident, confident enough to show humility, and to say what they actually think.

If people were never extraordinarily wrong about things, we’d have nothing to argue about on the Internet. What a blessing!

I guess the question is how often do you realize that you’re actually on the wrong side of that argument, it definitely happens. And then what do you do next? Dig your heels in, double down and keep arguing? Or acknowledge the realization, make a concession or even apology?

Evidently, it can be hard to be a decent person (hard for all of us), when anonymity means there are no personal consequences to being a dick.

Oh no, I can see exactly why you’d want cloud storage in a business… But why as part of your office suite? If nothing else, it seems foolish to tie your storage solution to your office suite. It means your locking yourself into an ecosystem and reducing your options in the future.

Adding all these unrelated features is like saying “check it out! This car has a toaster oven!”. I mean, cool. And sure other cars don’t, so that’s something I guess, but why?

Why would you want multifactor authentication for your word documents? Hell, why do you need authentication? If you’re logged into the machine I think you get to use the word processor. But hey, if all this stuff really belongs in an office suite, why not throw in an aquarium screensaver, a cobal compiler and a drive formatter, that would really round the package out.

Yeah that’s fair, I’ve seen how Office business integrates with the OS and a bunch of network services, so I’m not surprised by that. Well, for those corporate environments I expect MS will continue to be the norm. But for small businesses and home use, Libra is really fantastic.

And honestly, for personal use I could do without all that email and calendar integration, good riddance.

Edit: Also storage? MFA? MDM? Why would you want that in an office suite? like maybe MDM is useful, but it doesn’t belong in the office suite. And the rest of the acronyms I didn’t even recognize… So I’m guessing they also don’t really belong.

Sometimes I find myself annoyed by Lemmy users. We love to tout foss alternatives, even when they don’t work as well, or aren’t nearly as polished.

Libre office is a different story, it has everything you’ll need, it’s really complete, it does everything you want and it can read any format you throw at it and save its output in any format you need. It launches faster than Microsoft office, it’s more stable, I really have absolutely no complaints, everyone should be using it.