While I was working on compiling a PDF proof of some writing drafts this morning, I realized MS had "enhanced" office with AI. Without asking, without consent.
I was able to do the registry edit solution and now the AI.exe task does not appear to be loading when I go in to work on a draft.
I mostly use #Scrivener for my drafts but while the Compile function is very slick, it does lack a couple of key features that I required Word for. I'll have to look into LibreOffice as a backup word processor.
Niestety ale poległem, przy całej sympatii do systemów GNU/Linux póki co Windows, po kilku ulepszeniach i wywaleniu bloatware'u jak dla mnie jest lepszy, albowiem za systemem stoją aplikacje a w moim wypadku jedna - Scrivener.
Nie ma aktualnej wersji na GNU/Linux, opcja przez Wine jest bardzo niestabilna i problematyczna.
Podobnie, niestety, na smartfonie - brakuje mi Android Auto, nawet kupiłem uchwyt na smartfona, ale jednak Android Auto jest niesamowicie wygodne.
I tu i tam w większości korzystam z programów open source, i tu i tam dzięki fajnym skryptom wywaliłem szpiony (prawie) i po prostu przyjemnie się działa.
Czekam aż na GNU/Linux pojawi się Scrivener i na Lineage/CalyxOS Android Auto. Wtedy na pewno przejdę, Debian z KDE jest niesamowicie szybki, Calyx podobnie.
#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 9 Nbr 21 — Do you format as you write or do that at the end?
I am writing a manuscript for a fiction book or short story. Since I use a computer and now use #scrivener, the question is, what formatting? If you mean do I /italicize/ words? Yes. If you mean to I occasionally indent for stylistic meaning?
Yes.
I do.
It's ard to show on Mastodon.
Centered chapter breaks? I use a style.
Beyond that? What formatting? Scrivener blats out a manuscript when I'm done. If I want a book, I'll likely find someone to edit and design for me, if a conventional publisher doesn't buy it first.
#psa Okay, learned a lesson today. I either missed this or the setting changed in an update. Both #OneDrive and #Dropbox have a setting for keeping all the files in the cloud rather than on your Mac, downloading them as you need them. This means that if you need them and the service is responding poorly, or you have no connectivity, you can't get to your files. If you use #scrivener, for example, which syncs through dropbox, this can cause sync errors between devices!
Both services appear to set all files online only. Both services have a way to change this to ensure all files are downloaded for offline use.
#Writers, #authors, as well as #artists, I strongly suggest you keep your files on disk as well as in the cloud. Change these settings now!
Okay. Interesting. Moving files from Dropbox creates placeholder files that are empty but take up space. There's a little cloud symbol beside the files in the dropbox directories, but they refused to download. Sheesh. Luckily, the files exist online. I've logged on to the online dropbox and downloaded all my files to my hard disk in a separate directory as a backup. I'm trying bypassing the dropbox refused to sync issue by signing out of dropbox and orphaning the current directories. Signing on again, but creating new dropbox directory tree on disk that must be downloaded again from the #dropbox#cloud.Hoping that this fixes the #sync problems I'm having between platforms, at least from the Mac perspective.
And Bam! Less than 10 minutes later, #dropbox has laid down all the files from the #cloud in the new directories. #Scrivener opens the previously damage project (because dropbox had refused to download things) with everything consistent with the iPhone version. Yay!
Today I lack synchronicity. Neither my OneDrive or Dropbox are syncing my files today, so I've different versions of #scrivener on different platforms. Mood: Sad.