Post 2280605 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
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(DIR) Post #2280605 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2018-12-25T17:13:22Z
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joke: .docx files are acceptable broke: .odt files are preferred because they're an open standard and can be viewed with a FLOSS program with 100% Compatibility woke: .odt files aren't good enough because they exclude users who cannot (or don't want to) run libreoffice. plaintext should be usedbespoke: only ASCII characters should be used to maintain compatibility with legacy systems artichoke: if we move back to pencils and paper, no restrictions can ever applynew coke: communication is classist
(DIR) Post #2280643 by CornishRepublicanArmy@witches.live
2018-12-25T17:14:35Z
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@lynnesbian as usual, I have no idea what half of this means but I love and support you and know this is probably extremely funny like everything you post
(DIR) Post #2280695 by anarchosaurus@social.fsck.club
2018-12-25T17:14:46.198161Z
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@lynnesbian that was a rollercoaster. I was with you until ascii. Plaintext is the superior format.
(DIR) Post #2280696 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2018-12-25T17:16:40Z
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@anarchosaurus but there's no formatting support ;-;
(DIR) Post #2280739 by diodelass@cybre.space
2018-12-25T17:18:00Z
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@lynnesbian proposal: .zip containing a PDF and its LaTeX source code in a UTF-8 plaintext file.
(DIR) Post #2280752 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2018-12-25T17:18:17Z
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@CornishRepublicanArmy i can explain it for you if you'd like, my sugarschnookums
(DIR) Post #2280754 by SwooshyCueb@chitter.xyz
2018-12-25T17:18:24Z
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@lynnesbian WordPerfect Text is the One True Format
(DIR) Post #2280765 by CornishRepublicanArmy@witches.live
2018-12-25T17:18:46Z
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@lynnesbian yes please! you know the only thing I love as much as you is learning
(DIR) Post #2280960 by ajroach42@retro.social
2018-12-25T17:25:51Z
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@lynnesbian consider: RTF
(DIR) Post #2280990 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2018-12-25T17:26:54Z
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@CornishRepublicanArmy sure thing, my love ❤️❤️❤️- docx is the format used by microsoft word. it's closed source and owned by microsoft, so spreading its usage is generally frowned upon by FLOSS nerds like myself- odt is an open alternative to docx. it does pretty much everything docx does, and it's an open standard, so anyone's allowed to implement and use it. this is a huge improvement over docx in terms of freedom, in both the libre (free like free speech) and gratis (free like free beer) sense- plaintext files is just, well, plain old text. no images, no formatting, no charts, just text. it's supported by every computer on earth.- ASCII is an outdated way of encoding text. there are only 127 ASCII characters, and only around 90 of them are printable, with the rest being invisible "control characters" that tell the computer to insert a new line, or beep, et cetera. using ASCII limits you to using only the latin alphabet, arabic numerals, and some punctuation. it's mostly fallen out of use, but some outdated systems might not support unicode (effectively ASCII's replacement), so using ASCII guarantees full compatibility.love you! ❤️
(DIR) Post #2281040 by CornishRepublicanArmy@witches.live
2018-12-25T17:28:37Z
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@lynnesbian thank you so much! I knew some of the file types like docx of course but the explanation was great! I love you and you're so damn smart ❤️
(DIR) Post #2281059 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2018-12-25T17:29:12Z
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@CornishRepublicanArmy :blobkissheart:
(DIR) Post #2281250 by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2018-12-25T17:34:49Z
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@lynnesbian
(DIR) Post #2300264 by jchelp@aus.social
2018-12-26T01:21:57Z
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@lynnesbian Not to break the meme, but MS Office can open ODT these days.