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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And most adhesive bandages aren't part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

MFW Americans call sterile stretchy scab stickers "Bandaids"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

But seriously why do British people come up with such… whimsical words for everything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And now I need to design a keyboard and name it the hoighty toighty tippy typer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Then stop, you weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.