Engywook

I deleted my Amazon account around 2007, when I discovered how they treat their workers. Never looked back. Fuck Amazon.

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted

Because people here can’t get their heads out of their asses, that’s why. As simple as that. Who cares, I have “votes” disabled on my end anyway.

By the way, nobody needs a “legitimate reason” to choose a given software instead of a different one and even less needs to justify their choice to strangers on the internet.

For some reason it slows down a lot, to the point of being unusable, with many slides full of equations and also crashed on me a couple of times, so no. And I’m pretty sure my OS and hardware are fine. PowerPoint also may suffer a bit but it’s still usable (although it takes many seconds to save a file, in this scenario).

None of these support equations in presentations adequately, for instance, something which is crucial for my job. And LaTeX and beamer are extremely time consuming for presentations (even if LaTeX is perfectly fine for long text/articles).

With due respect, no. Office suites on Linux aren’t on par with MS Office yet (and the latter sucks a lot, but not for the lack of features). MS Office and Origin Pro are the actual reasons I keep a Windows VM laying around (on Arch, btw).

Are these just keyboard warriors trying to sound tough to strangers online?

Plenty of those on Lemmy. Even more than on Reddit, I’d say.

No worries, I’m hiding the entire YouTube from my internet.

They just want to see the world burn

Hey, no, that’s me.

Only if you don’t value your time.

There’s nothing free in this world. You’re paying with your attention and at least metadata, independently on how many blockers you may use.

Thank you, Mr. Obvious. Now you can go back to YT as well.

There’s a “block” button somewhere in Lemmy’s interface, under my profile. Just use it and go back swallowing crappy YT videos.

I prefer to read books. Thanks. By the way, the fact that you need adblocker an sponsorblock to enjoy a few videos speaks volumes.

I literally never watch a YouTube videos, as they are just a waste of time. For a given video on a given topic, the same amount of information can be obtained by a decently written blog or article that can be read in a 1/10 of the time it takes to watch q video filled by nonsense blabbering and sponsored segments for revenues. In some extreme cases, if the topic seems really, really , REALLay interesting, I may ask an LLM to summarize the video for me. People should stop linking YouTube videos altogether.

Wonderful for when playing FPS on a console with a pad.

You can somewhat exclude websites from results if you self host SearXNG, but only by modifying configuration files… Which is a bit annoying.

Love how some people pretend to be special or unique here. And most likely just for fake karma points.

YouTube is totally blocked for my son at home and on his phone and I myself avoid it as the plague as well. If he wants to learn stuff, I’m eager to buy him all the books he wants. The moderate amount of useful resources on YT is 100% available elsewhere, on less addictive platforms or media.

Don’t care. Just don’t use them, as a I do.

Again, good for you.