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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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I'm not sure I'm cool with calling people 'idiots' in this scenario. We don't blame the victims of con men when they're stolen from, and this is the same thing, just on a bigger scale.
That said, here is the obligatory linking to LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/
It's free and a better choice.
And for anyone who says in excel I can create a spreadsheet sheet that does this amazing company defining process, I'll counter that with you can make a calculator in Minecraft. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
We need to quit focusing on stuff like this. If somebody calls you a fucking idiot so fucking what?
And we do blame the victims constantly. The people that blame the victims do nothing but fucking win.
And some of us ARE idiots, no need to throw us under the bus, it’s still wrong to take advantage of stupid people
i read it as sarcasm, i would write it like that, especially if i was one of them
I read it as someone kinda being a dick, but it's the Internet. Meaning isn't always well-conveyed electronically. That's why we have the sarcasm tag.
Had you gone as far as the article you would have seen the disclaimer that makes it clear it's sarcasm.
I did.
The title of the article is 'Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month', which makes it pretty clear that the editorializing of the title here on Lemmy was intended to be a bit dickish, at least to me.
If I am wrong, cool, but it's not because I didn't look at the article.
They mean that when it was originally posted on the db0 Lemmy piracy community, there was a disclaimer to say it was sarcasm
Well, maybe they should have clicked through to the article.
/s