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Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?(thehardtimes.net)

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BoofStroke@sh.itjust.works
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Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I’ll be impressed.

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vividspecter@lemm.ee
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Or emacs with org-mode.

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Dempf@lemmy.zip
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I think you’re looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.

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leadore@lemmy.world
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Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?

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vividspecter@lemm.ee
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Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.

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atheridis@lemmy.world
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Okay, but is America ready for a president who is a PDF file?

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mods are fascists @dormi.zone
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OpenStars@discuss.online
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Next up: tables of data in CSV, then XML, and finally JSON formats, oh the humanity!

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YerbaYerba@lemm.ee
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ASN.1 pls

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OpenStars@discuss.online
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Oh dear lord… please save me from the monsters underneath my bed, and from ASN.1 everywhere it may invade.

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Zachariah@lemmy.world
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Unless we get one that can skibbidi the yeet instead.

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OpenStars@discuss.online
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No cap fr. Well, yolo fam, so y not?

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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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Would definitely make a refreshing change

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NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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Obama, Carter, and (somehow) Teddy Roosevelt

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taiyang@lemmy.world
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To be fair, Teddy only managed to convert to PDF by sheer gumption. No matter how many clippies he faced, he never gave up, never crashed his Word, and always disabled OneDrive before anything else.

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ditty@lemm.ee
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For sure Obama could convert a Word doc no problem. Hell, Cheney Bush Jr. probably could’ve as well.

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OpenStars@discuss.online
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With his youthful, tech-savvy vibe, many assumed that Barack Obama knew this stuff. But when pressed about how to convert file types, he responded, “What do I look like, some kinda fuckin’ nerd?” His honesty was refreshing. After all, converting a file shouldn’t be the president’s job. That is what interns are for. (Recent surveys show 90% of interns’ work hours are spent combining, condensing, and converting documents in a way that doesn’t crash the aging government servers.)

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DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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He does not, in fact, look like some kinda fuckin’ nerd.

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