It is an option. However the ability to have comments on the text is really important.

And I don’t want to have through GitHub PR process to get that comments capabilities.

Markdown is fine. I’ll take a look at protondocs, pricing is not really an issue - but since this is public money I very much prefer to spend it on actual experiments.

Don’t know about collabora, I had tried it a few years ago and found it very slow and finicky. Moreover maintaining the whole nextcloud setup would be something I’d gladly avoid.

I tried the hedgedoc demo.

As far as I can see it supports latex and has some change revision mechanism. Unfortunately no bib file support, but I guess that’s ok.

However, I can not find a way to add comments to the rendered text. Is that possible on the self hosted version?

That would be a deal breaker, most of what I need is actually reading documents written by other people and ask for clarifications or improvements.

NTFS? Why would someone want to use NTFS?

If you install from repositores you are forced to use the latest version. You can use older versions through appimages. In general, there’s no real reason to use older versions unless you need to reproduce something specific which was done in the past doing it in the same way.

I run arch on a 2007 laptop. It was a cheap laptop at the time. Still runs very fine. Unless you want to keep the laptop running for the next 40 years I wouldn’t worry too much.

For sure I wouldn’t use Google to ping Google.

It is quite normal to ask for an email address at registration even when using password based authentication.

Wait, what is the reason for writing the name of an animal on top of animal images when asking for a man made object? Wouldn’t it make more sense to mix animal images with images of man made objects with text of animal names on top to trick LLMs?

VIsudo -> opens nano ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, nano is cool I guess.

But just today my colleague asked what parameter add to a configuration file. He asked me should it be before or after this line? I told him before, he added it after. He had to select the line with the mouse, copy the text, go above, paste it, go back and delete the line character by character.

I mean, not too bad; but I was feeling very bad while seeing it happen.

Currently having a new hire write a library in python and I noticed he was doing this in a few PRs. I went and explained to him this was not necessary and that he could just call the original function where he needed it. While showing him how to inline the functions I realised he was actually adding type annotations to functions which did not have them in the original libraries.

Nevermind what I told you, keep doing this.

The use of AI tools to assist rather than stand in for human creativity does not affect the availability of copyright protection for the output. Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material.

I’m not sure where you get that from, I’m pretty sure vibe coding still complies with these indications

I mean I want the picture on page 2 [!Hb] not that hbox is overfull and thus picture is on page 10.

What, the paragraph symbol? I’ll add that to the list of useless words to pull out in strange situations just to show off to people I know them.

I would not use latex for any document that should be a template for other people to fill in. Unless you’re a peer reviewed journal.

I wouldn’t use latex for anything that requires precise positioning of images and elements. InDesign and similar are a much better option.

I do like to use markdown for any document that does not fall into those categories. I like to use latex for any document I’m writing which I want someone else to style.

Latex is very cool for styling, but in my experience most of the time you do not really need that amount of configurability and the added time to correctly make a styled document in latex is way more than what it would take you in word, even when you have to fight word to make it. That is unless you need equations, but then again: just write markdown with latex equations.

When I have to work on docx I generally can do it with LibreOffice and I’m quite happy with that. Sometimes I can not, I had for example this pesky thing which wouldn’t let me edit parts of the document as it was locked, especially on tables. No amount of conversations across file formats fixes that for some reason.

That is when I have to open up the office365 webpage. What a fucking piece of garbage. Most things you mention do not even exist in there. You can write a document and add comments, managing styles is already a bit too much for the yearly fee they charge you.

I hope they make it possible again to install the office suite on Linux.

And in no way I’m saying I like LibreOffice better than word, they’re both quite terrible; but at least one of them runs on my system.

That’s normal evolution, go ask a biologist about junk DNA.

Recently happened that I was asked to fix a problem in a thing for some collaborators. It was quite some time I didn’t look at this thing, but I opened it and fixed it.

Apparently we had 3 of those things and I fixed the wrong one. Oh well, went on vacation the following day and eventually got to fixing it a couple weeks later.

Nobody died.