Yes, this is still a crucial job role for most organizations.

4-ch.net (not to be confused with 4chan) is a 90s BBS that is still online and occasionally active. It’s neat to see posts from the 90s still on the front page.

Cloud infrastructure is great for this. You don’t need your own data center when you can just rent space on a farm. As a bonus, it’s less work for the IT team who no longer have to deal with server hardware upkeep.

Condos! Best of both worlds. Especially in a dense city, a standalone house isn’t really feasible when you can fit 8+ families into the same lot.

Meh fuck the commercial real estate market. Turn all the buildings into micro apartments or tear them down and install fields of solar panels.

Why the fuck would any office worker whose job is 100% on a computer need to be in an office? I don’t understand why companies want to pay for all of that electricity and real estate just to make people sit in cubicles.

I can’t imagine a scenario where a person who needs to work on a computer will not benefit by typing quickly and accurately.

I’m pretty sure most jobs involve typing on a computer in some capacity

It depends highly on what you will be programming.

Did you read the article? Mass surveillance had nothing to do with this.

Counterpoint: Those who produce and collect CP deserve to be in jail

Honestly it might be worthwhile to just get a month of Microsoft 365 and use the web client. You can upload all of the files to OneDrive and open them in the web version of Word to do what you need. Nothing beats native compatibility in a project of this scope.

Just use Edge on sites that don’t support Firefox, if you must use them. Same as how we used IE for government sites back in the day.

Who tf still uses Reddit? It’s all bots and power tripping mods nowadays. Lemmy is a million times better imo.

Namecheap domains include a dynamic DNS application for free and it works well. Be aware that it only runs on Windows.

Shadowbanning? Do you have more info on this?

Format your document? Format your expectations. Fuck you, that will be $35/mo. -Microsoft, probably

365 admin here. Use whatever distro you want and just use the web versions of Office apps. They’ve been greatly improved and are nearly identical to their desktop counterparts. Especially if you’re leaning heavily into OneDrive/Sharepoint.

Who tf needs a printer these days? I print maybe 5 pages a year and the library does it for a quarter.

I just double my HDDs and put them in RAID1. Not foolproof against data loss, but I wouldn’t be heartbroken if I lost my Plex library. For important docs I add a cloud backup.