* Posts by Svampa

3 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2019

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

Svampa

No, but... Android. Net effect

You can trust that google is getting as much data from you as it can, from where it can, let it be searches or tools for developers. They know you better than yourself. Period.

That is not going to change. That is like tobacco companies. What can they do to be concerned about public health? Sell less product. What can google do to be less privacy invader? Collect less data, so making its advertising less effective.

Can you set your Android for not using google at all?

1-No, 99.99999% of people can't, unless they have tech savvy friend (very savvy) or pay a technician

2-What they would get without google would disappointing for many people

Can you stop sending emails to any contact that uses gmail? No

That is like Whatsapp, there are other alternatives, but I only have a couple of contacts that use signal or telegram. No. I'm not going to stop texting all the other contacts that use whatsapp

Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

Svampa

Re: OMG!

Why not

CERN - "Oh, wait! It was a bug in *Ms Excel*. Our bad..."

I've never seen a numeric error in LO Calc. Bugs are related to interface, crashes, hangs, macros etc, but not internal calculation.

Nevertheless, don't worry, they don't use spreadsheets for processing results, they have specialized programs. Spreadsheets are for financial or admin tasks.

Svampa

Re: The Open University provides 0365 and doesn't accept open document format

Why don't you export to PDF? I can't understand people who sends .docx or .doc documents. Why send a modifiable document.

By the way I got rid in my company of Ms Office time ago. We only have one copy (legal copy) of Ms Office that it is seldom used. I really seldom need to send modifiable documents outside.