Work use-cases can be tricky. Sometimes there's that one particular thing you have to do for work, like you actually need to do surgery on .pdfs that you can't really do without Acrobat Pro, or you actually need some of the weird advanced features in Excel to do with charts and such, or you need exact visual fidelity on the roundtrips between Word and LibreOffice Writer.

That last I believe can be made a lot better if you arrange to get your hands on the Windows fonts and put them in where LibreOffice can see them. Or I guess put some of the fonts you find in Linux into Windows? Anyway, a lot of the trouble with Word on Windows and LibreOffice on Linux documents not looking quite the same is if they don't have the right font and just grab some other one that's available to use instead. That can affect not just how the letters look, but how much space they end up taking up, which will mess up layout. Have the right font and everything will be a lot closer to identical.

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Wonder if we'll be buying Chinese chips in five years.

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I see a lot to like about this, but every time the cargo bounces around or out, I'm mentally screaming "JUST . . . TIE . . . IT . . . DOWN!!!"

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Game seems more timely than ever . . .

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I like the idea of being able to switch between old and new graphics at will, and it gives me a pleasant feeling like they respect both, you know? The "traditional mode" and "story mode" seem good too.

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OK, this is kind of an incredible idea, but I don't understand why I'd want to experience it.

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Definitely looking cool.

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That's kind of how I feel too. Plus I feel like I sort of missed my chance, it's almost too late . . . I will never get the chance to experience the cryptic text-based pseudographics and mythic hard core lore of the earlier game . . .

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@ToddL The problem with that is, AI can't really do much work. I mean, it can make lousy videos and slop articles on the internet, so that does replace some jobs. But the whole "agent" thing just doesn't work. It's probably a lot less good at most actual work than the old non-AI "expert systems" approach . . . which wasn't very good either. Any CEO that jumps on the "I'll just replace workers with AI!" bandwagon is simply going to find that the stuff that needs to get done to keep the lights on at the company . . . isn't getting done.

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What makes it more bizarre is apparently nobody except NVidia is actually making any money off the stuff--everyone's actually losing money hand over fist, the big outfits in the tens of billions. Seems like the tech companies and the tech investors were just desperate for a Next Big Thing and AI was the only one on offer, so . . . but it's a bubble. The crash is gonna be brutal.

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