Notices by Canageek (canageek@cybre.space), page 17

@Isoleucine ...i also use IRC?

@LogicalDash Not sure if you are talking about the game or mathematical concept ;)

@gemlog Yeah, I don't think that is deliberate either, since they can't get their OWN versions to be compatible. I think it is a 'we did this X years ago and are wanting to go back in time and murder whomever made these choices' scenario.

@gemlog Yeah, my experience has been that LibreOffice doesn't play nice, but I should give it a try again. However I know Powerpoint won't: Mac and Windows versions don't even play nice.

@gemlog The difference is heterogeneous environment. If the entire office uses LibreOffice, fine. Whereas we will have one person on Office2010, three on Office2016, Two on Office365, and one on a cracked version of Office2007 (Chinese edition).

@Leucrotta Yes, but I don't see any of this as argument against having an alert system?

@gemlog If the formatting is simple it would be fine, but journal templates tend to be complicated, plus you want lots of tables and figures. Plus there are lots of situations where formatting can change meaning in chemistry. I use LaTeX for my writing, but when I work with other people?

@Leucrotta I mean, if both the federal and state governments have systems, at least there are two agencies that have to not care, instead of just one?

But yes, I would like to see a list of automatic uses that automatically go out via the civil service, rather then everything needing elected officials approval.

@gemlog The issue is not that they aren't good, its compatibility. Powerpoint/Libreoffice aren't very good, and Office/Librea are only OK. I couldn't write a paper with someone using office,you know? The formatting gets screwed up and all that jazz.

@pagrus @sascha Is that also true of Mercurial?

Also: At least you'd have a changelog. (I'm surprised there isn't a log of the time you push the commits? I was assuming the local version was easy to fake, but wow)

@MightyPork It isn't so much the 'made in China' bit, its 'that particular company has a bad reputation even within China'

@gemlog I was already thinking of putting Mint or Kubuntu on it. If it wasn't for Word, Powerpoint and Excel I'd put *nix on my main one.

@MightyPork I like the T series due to the durability. But I'm wondering about non-thinkpads as one of my Chinese friends has said they've got a reputation for treating their workers badly in China.

@sascha Is that also true of mercurial (Which is what I use?)

Even if the dates are faked, I've got a character by character change log for every paper, showing every edit I made. So if I'm accused of stealing a paragraph, you've got all your drafts. Not PERFECT, but better then nothing?

Ok, my laptop is just unusable slow these days. Like, half an hour to get my email slow.
It PROBABLY just needs a wipe and reinstall, but its a 6 year old laptop (and the model is 8 years told), so I'm thinking its time for a new one.

I've had great luck with Thinkpads, so thinking a T480 might be a good idea, but they don't have the great keyboards anymore, and the screen is apparently not great. Anyone want to suggest a similar alternative? 14-15", sturdy. Hoping for a touchpoint.

@MightyPork @pagrus *reads more* Yeah. You can only have five people able to view/edit a private repo, whereas academics get unlimited.

@MightyPork @pagrus Number of contributors it looks like?

@MightyPork @pagrus A lot of scientific software uses that model. Free for personal/academic use. $ALLTHEMONEY for companies to use it.

@pagrus @MightyPork AH, now the free account are limited to give users: Academics and students can have unlimited collaborators on their private accounts, as long as they are also academics or students.