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A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.
And most adhesive bandages aren't part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
MFW Americans call sterile stretchy scab stickers "Bandaids"
But seriously why do British people come up with such… whimsical words for everything?
And now I need to design a keyboard and name it the hoighty toighty tippy typer.
I just call them bandages.
Then stop, you weirdo.
Someday, my friends, presentations made and saved in Markdown will be king, and we can forget about opening slow programs to edit them.
Yes, somehow the world will be a better place when everything is a plaintext document. At least that's how I imagine it.
Incidentally, there was a cool python program for presenting pdfs I used years ago. I wonder if it or similar are still in vogue somewhere.
I do all my presentations in markdown. Maintain them in git.
Share the web page to share the presentation.
PowerPoint sucks. So slow to make a presentation. So slow to change for a different audience.