@matigo I see. Social change seems to take a long time with the U.S… even though it is still a relatively young country.
// @phoneboy
@matigo Yes, I would agree that the majority of the population consumes animal-based products on a regular basis. I also have read medical and nutritionist opinions that a well-thought out plant-based diet is generally better for health and longevity than the corresponding omnivore diet that includes animal-based products.
When you say "writing for exceptions means that you write for nobody," I guess I sort of get where you're coming from (maybe you are talking about identifying with a specific audience?), but in the case that @phoneboy mentioned, we are talking about a government-penned website that advocates whole foods including meat and animal-based products for better health. While eating whole, unprocessed foods seems to be better for your health without question (avoiding artificial additives, for example), it seems to me that there is some medical and nutritional basis for questioning the validity of the assumption that animal-based products have to be part of a "balanced diet" for good health. The fact that the U.S. government has published such a document makes it doubly so.
// @phoneboy
@matigo That is true. When you used the "sky is blue" part metaphorically to refer to this argument, what part did you mean?
// @phoneboy
@phoneboy "Every meal must prioritize high-quality, nutrient-dense protein from both animal and plant sources…" — I think there are a lot of people on a plant-based diet who would disagree with this well-meaning advice… in particular, the part about the animal sources.
@matigo Well, Microsoft was a different company back then, as you have pointed out here before.
@nitinkhanna Yes, I think that standalone licenses get auto-updated once you install Microsoft 365. It's not really ideal—sometimes you need those older versions.
Since Microsoft is jacking up the price of their Office suite via Microsoft 365 by 50% starting February, I did a cost comparison between the annual 365 subscription version vs. the standalone Office for Mac 2024 product. I found that the standalone product will be much less than the yearly subscription past the two-year mark. Since MS seems to be adding functionality with dubious usefulness like Copilot to even the Mac version, I reasoned there's no need to keep doing the yearly subscription, and figured I'd bite the bullet with the standalone product.
First time in 13 years that I've bought a standalone Office product. Feels like a breath of fresh air, actually.
@peemee Interesting. I never noticed that process in the menu—learned something new.
Then again, it's really only for people who go to the Print dialog and then decide they don't want a physically printed page, they want a PDF instead, so they go to the PDF submenu that's only accessible from the little button at the bottom of the Print dialog box. I wonder how long that command has been there for. It's still available in macOS Tahoe.
@matigo What does your canine companion think of Christmas, do you suppose?
// @spacenerdmo
@peemee I would hate it if my "smart" TV was updated with features I didn't want or need, either. Hope that the Japanese smart TV manufacturers don't follow suit.
This seems to be all over the tech news now, so you're not the only one.
What would Copilot do for your TV watching? Would it be useful in any way? I guess it's a generative AI kind of thing for finding information on programs and movies or something like that?