Or, as in the case of Microsoft Publisher, announce that it will be going away on a certain date with no recourse.
Before 10/26 I have to re-work my desk position manual and a deposit sheet which use Publisher and which MS Word is _not_ suited for. Probably will do them in LyX or LaTeX.
I use the pdf view of Literate Programming projects uploaded to my Kindle Scribe in a similar fashion --- at need I've augmented this by switching to my MacBook for coding and using my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 as a second pdf view (which never fails to cause comment from my spouse).
Guaranteed deployment, and the lack of an IDE which works for both programmers and artists were definitely the two advantages Flash had.
I'd really like to find a replacement which clicks for me the way it did --- started out w/ its predecessor, Futurewave Smartsketch (used it on PenPoint, Mac and Windows, and for Windows, continued using through a succession of pen tablets, most notably my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 which I despair of replacing --- transflective displays went out of vogue).
I just want to take a moment to note that I am _very_ grateful for the flexibility of this configuration and that it affords the power/option to disable scrolling with a stylus (effectively dumbing it down to an 11th touch input) and allowing it to function as I've come to expect since the days of PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing to select text and so forth.
The last time my ThinkPad 755C was in the way and shuffled around as part of re-arranging, it still booted up.
The only other device I've owned which might have that sort of longevity is my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 (which I quite miss for its transflective display).
Really wish the Lenovo Yogabook 9i was in the ThinkPad line and that it had a Wacom EMR stylus....
I believe that a lot of the problems with LLMs would be greatly ameliorated if every generated image had embedded in the metadata the prompt and by default, the user credentials (which could be turned off for folks who want privacy).
Are Scholastic book orders no longer a thing for children?
When my father retired from the service, he moved to the second poorest county in Virginia in terms of tax base, and the library at that time was a carrel of used paperbacks in the courthouse of the old library --- for each Scholastic book order, my teacher would open the box, remove a couple of books for other students, then hand me the box (she would also remove the promotional poster for the classroom, even though it was always my order which qualified for it).
Things got better when I got to high school, since that library was somewhat better stocked (in particular, a cousin of Andre Norton's lived in the county, received books from her, and then donated them to the library, which I will eternally be grateful of).
Fortunately, since then, the county has managed to build and stock an actual library building.
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ― Anne Herbert
Before 10/26 I have to re-work my desk position manual and a deposit sheet which use Publisher and which MS Word is _not_ suited for. Probably will do them in LyX or LaTeX.
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