What is a sissy hypno mode?

I am IT staff and I’ve worked for government in the past.

No matter how easy you make the swap over, no matter how much money it offers to save, there’s gonna be somebody who has sign off level executive authority who will refuse to change anything, because it means changing something, and they won’t like it.

Making a company-wide transition from Microsoft to a free version that does exactly the same is not a simple change.

If you make the change, you’re going to see a huge upswing in the number of support calls. You’re going to see a huge upswing in the number of complaints. You’re going to see downturns in efficiency and productivity as people make the changes, not to mention the fact that administering libreoffice from an organizational standpoint is a completely different beast from administering office.

I’m not saying that it can’t be done, by any stretch of the imagination.

I’m saying that the human element is the largest factor in whether or not it would be done, and unless you are already the city administrator or a big to-do inside of the fish pond you find yourself in, you likely do not have the human capital needed to make the transition, regardless of every other benefit.

If you want to get this done, I would suggest preemptively installing libre office on every single computer in the entire organization and then slowly telling people to use it as the opportunity arises so that three to five years from now there will be enough people who have used it that the transition would not be a huge ordeal.

Short of that you need to have an executive mandate from on high come in and say, we are not using Microsoft Office anymore, we will use LibreOffice, here are your training hours, go.

They don’t jail you, they take every penny you’ve ever had or will have for the rest of your life.

It’s only fair, you becoming destitute for liking a post is far better than the risk that they didn’t get their $24.95 from you. /s

It’ll save you nearly $50 a month. So even if the customer service is exactly the same, you get to keep another $600 each year.

I switched to my local provider from Xfinity about three months ago, and my internet speeds are twice as fast for the same money.

It just clicked in my head that the reason why all of this is happening is they’re punishing us for electing Obama.

The current turd in chief is acting this way to show us how they truly believe Obama is going to act when he’s president.

Overlook the fact that he’s already been president and is now no longer eligible to be president again. That sort of logic is not at play here. This is a deep and instinctual manifestation of racism with no valid target to execute their racism on.

They truly believe in their heart of hearts that they are not racist, that they are doing the right thing, that they are teaching us and showing us the error of our ways.

The insanity comes from the cognitive dissonance of knowing they know what they’re doing is wrong. They know what they’re doing is horrible. They know what they’re doing is fucked, but they can’t stop doing it because we haven’t learned our lesson because Obama was president.

Like, I think electing President Obama was one of the best things America has done in the last 50 years.

But I also think it was probably the wrong decision because obviously 40 to 60 percent of us were just not ready for the idea of having a black president, so much so that, what, like, 17 years later, people are still really, really fucking upset that a black man was elected President of the United States.

And the worst thing is they can’t cognitively process this information because it’s not clicking in their head. In their minds they are not bad people becauae only bad people are racists.

Because there is no connection between the idea that an action can be racist and that a person can be racist, while in most other categories being a good and decent person, they can’t actually move beyond this thing. They’re fucking stuck and playing on a repeat. They’re broken in a way that can’t be fixed.

It’s really sad and America is going to suffer for a very long time because its own people cannot understand that they can be racist while being otherwise good people, and that racism does not have to include screaming the n word or murdering people of other colors. It can be something as simple as feeling uncomfortable around another person because of the color of their skin.

That one singular tiny little grain of sand is what’s bringing down the Colossus of America.

Yep, I was literally coming in to say that Skype was trashed the instant Microsoft bought it.

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Moving the goalposts, 5-yard penalty.

Moving the goalposts, five-yard penalty.

The thing is, you’re the person making the claim that they’ve fallen for propaganda, and therefore you do actually bear the burden of proof for your claims.

I believe you are correct, but I disagree with your idea that it’s “not your job to educate” someone when you’re telling somebody that the information they have is false without offering the true information to replace it with.

Yeah, and?

Do you honestly believe there’s a single person on lemmy with enough gravitas to be worth being tracked by the elite?

When “hundredths fractions of security” fails to get a laugh, I know I’m in the wrong group of people.

Surely you understand how a stupid response to a silly statement like it is one of the sayings of all time can be appropriate in humorous situations, right?

I understand that you did not find it funny, but I hope that you can understand that it was my intention to be funny, and therefore a serious response is disproportionate.

I didn’t say it’s secure, I just said it’s security.

You can’t say that a solution is no security at all when it requires time and intelligence to bypass.

It is at least 0.01 security.

Also money, which are just political points in tangible/fungible format

Long story short, people that use it get really used to using it.

My bad, I meant to say shift T and then shift S.

I wouldn’t necessarily trust that. I have used Xfinity for a long time and my IP address often went months without changing.

If I want to scream into the void, I can do that anywhere and anytime, and I do not need a web server to do it.

To quote Ariel, I want to be where the people are.