Boots should be leather

Posted on South China Morning Post. Pretty obvious bias. If a Singaporean outlet would say the same thing, I would believe it, but I wouldn’t trust a Chinese journal (or an American).

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/south-china-morning-post/

While I agree with the point made, calling it a study makes it sound like it was done by an independent party. This study was conducted by the article publisher. Saying “a study by The Breach” or “Analysis by The Breach” would have been more accurate.

I just find it a bit ironic that a newspaper calling out the bias of an another newspaper don’t even take the time to label their title correctly…

Automatic formatting. Try to have an automatic table of content with and automatic index of tables in draw, it’s not available. When I write a lab report, I don’t want to check every page to make sure the title 3 is still on page 4.

Formatting software are good at manual formatting. Word processors are good at convenience. Once you know your way around, you can be fairly good at formatting with them, and you get the advantages of having some automatic features.

I’m a bit like you! I’m studying to become a High School science teacher, so I’m not in a technical program. My computer serves mostly as a typing machine. I switched 2 years ago and it wasn’t all smooth, but I’ll share some of the things I encountered and what I did.

First problem I had, cloud sync. I used to be a a big OneDrive user and I wanted to sync everything with my drive as I used to be. There isn’t a very good program for syncing OneDrive. I bought a licence to InSync and it made it work flawlessly. Seriously good software! (nowadays I host my own Nextcloud server, but don’t start with that, it’s a lot of job for not a whole lot).

Second problem was getting used to LibreOffice. Compared to Office, LO isn’t formated around pages, every text you write is considered “one big text” and then it calculates where to put its page breaks and everything. What does it change? Not a whole lot, but technically speaking, it’s not as good as a formatting tool as Word is. Doesn’t really matter if you aren’t a formatting freak like I am, but it took me a some time to get use to it. To get better with it, I recommend you to practice styles on it (text style and page style).

Third problem, collaboration. I didn’t find a very good solution to it. What I do is I ask all my colleagues to write their parts online (Google Docs, MS Office Online,…) then once everything is done and perfectly written, I download it and open it in LO and do the final formatting. So I’m always the one doing the formatting. It’s important than when you give it back to your teachers, give it in a .PDF format. (Btw, unrelated, but look into Zotero, it’s a life saver)

And a general tip and trick I could give you is to keep close a Windows/Mac machine (not with you at all times, but just something you access fairly easily if you plan in advance). There were a few times a professor mandated that we submitted the work in MS office format, and I didn’t want to risk it not being right, so I did it in LO and polished it in Office. That and I was asked to use a very specific, Windows only software, so having it was very useful.

If you have other questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

Mind explaining why you think she’s a conspiracy theory nutter? Not asking in a bad way, I’ve just never heard that about her before

This article seems to say that this AWD is linked to the SA accident of earlier this week, which isn’t linked at all. This article is weirdly written and clearly not made by someone who knows things about planes…

Je prends l’idée de Kurzgesagt et je l’ai essayé un peu, sérieux ça fait du bien. (anecdotique, je sais)

À la fin de chaque jour, prends 2-3 minutes pour expliciter 10 choses dont tu es reconnaissant. Ça peut être aussi simple que “le café que je me suis fait ce matin est particulièrement bon”.

Au début ces difficiles, t’as l’impression que t’écris de la shnoute, mais ce que ça apporte c’est en aval. C’est-à-dire, ça te “force” à voir des gestes/des choses qui t’amène ce sentiment de reconnaissance.

O’Toole wasn’t perfect, but at least I felt that, if he won, I wouldn’t be ashamed of my country. I could genuinely have told myself: “well, let’s see how this goes!”

Dang, never thought I’d say that I missed a Conservative, but I indeed do miss O’Toole…

Okay, straight up, wtf? It needs to become illegal right away, this is waaaaaaaaay too sketchy…

Bonne année aux francos!

Happy new years to all of you! 🥳

J’allais envoyer le lien de la publication ici, c’est un maudit “shit show” les commentaires.

Y’a tellement d’argument valide qui pourrait être utilisé pour parler de la loi, mais la majorité a vu “Québec” et ils ont juste décidé que “ahah, French suck, Québec bad”…

If you go study in another province, whatever your original province is, you’ll pay more. So this is a valid complaint, but it is also valid to Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, BC,…

This government (CAQ) has done many xenophobic thing. Restricting access to services in foreign languages to accommodate new immigrants is probably the best example of that. But this university thing, I don’t think it is. Most of the time, if you go and follow and Bachelor’s degree in another country, then you have to learn the language of that country because not every class is given in English only (of course there’s exceptions, but most of the time it’s like that). And you have to pay a hefty premium to go and educate yourself abroad.

This situation is way different, studying at university of Toronto is 16 000$ if you are from Ontario and 17 000$ if you are from another province. So it was often cheaper for people to go and study in Québec. This fee raise doesn’t have anything to do with xenophobia or anything, this is merely bring the prices to the “market value”. Yes there’s a bit of language protectionism, but it’s not all that inconvenient, and as someone already said, just trying to learn French is probably sufficient to get around it.

In short, I agree that there is xenophobic things that happens in Québec. I agree this provincial government doesn’t have a great track record on that front. But this change isn’t motivated by xenophobia, but other reasons. Up to you to decide if they’re valid or not in your opinion.

Something that people should keep in mind is that the fees were lower for those “out-of-province” students in Québec than in their own province.

This fee raise basically brings it on par with what they would pay in their on province. One of the reasoning behind this law is that Québec shouldn’t be subsidizing other provinces way too expensive university system.

If you are living in Québec, university fees are quite cheap, and this doesn’t change.

The French vs English aspect is widely talked about, but not a whole lot is mentioned about the actual price hike.

That’s sounds like the “Justin-flation” from Pierre Poilievre from the Conservatives in Canada…

America (including Canada) is getting in a dumb conservative hell…

Ubuntu Mate all the way here. Very pleasant and smooth experience. Not the flashiest but the thing works and it works well!

Ah yes, those damn teachers (and nurses if you live in a place with public health care) that sold their souls for money… /s

You do you, but I just hate MacOS way of tilling. When I’m tilling windows I’m generally multi-tasking and I need my dock to look at a third window from time to time. Having it in full screen renders this impossible and the animation for switching is sooooooooo slooooooow😅

Me, casually running Mate and enjoying on stable and customizable it is. I’ll let you guys fight while I enjoy my polished experience!

I would love Wayland support tho…