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Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos

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  • It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.

    Man, I remember the change to Calibri, and now I feel really old.

    • Is there a way to deal with crap like this yet?

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  • The easiest would be to unsubscribe from two of them. Or even better, if people could stop cross-posting.

    Except cross-posting has a purpose. In that example, one of the posts was to beehaw while another was to lemmy.world. Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world so users on beehaw are only going to potentially see two of the three cross-posted posts. If they also defederate from lemmy.ml, those users would only see one.

    So yeah, the solution is to unsubscribe from two of those communities because they're essentially 3 completely different groups that just happen to have the same name and general focus. Either that or just get used to it.

    • Any Activision IP you'd like to see revived under Microsoft?

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  • Star Control has a complicated IP situation and was never owned by Activision, anyway. You need to look to Stardock for future Star Control games. Do you mean StarCraft instead?

    • Do you have any games that you like but you never finished?

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  • Define "finished". A lot of the games I enjoy are ones that don't have an "ending", like Crusader Kings or Civ.

    In general though, I try to finish games I'm enjoying and quickly stop playing games I'm not enjoying so that I can move onto something else.

    • With EVGA out of the GPU market, what brands are good options for a new GPU purchase?

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  • If I'm buying an AMD card, I buy PowerColor or Sapphire. If I'm buying an Nvidia card, I buy ASUS or MSI (quality isn't as good as ASUS, but tends to be cheaper). No real reason for those picks other than preference and good experience over many years of using them. Just remember that it's possible for any card to break regardless of brand so take reports with small sample sizes with a large grain of salt.

    • Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

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  • This article kind of misses the forest for the trees. While I agree with many of the author's points, that's not why the #TwitterMigration failed. It failed because Twitter/Mastodon isn't really a social networking site, and Mastodon didn't provide the same service that Twitter does. At its core, Twitter is about small numbers of (usually famous or important) users communicating with large audiences of followers. #TwitterMigration failed because not enough of those famous and important people moved from Twitter to Mastodon, so the average user had no content they cared to read. Seeing posts from your friends about what they had for dinner last night is all well and good, but the stuff people actually want to see is famous person A throwing shade at famous person B while famous person C talks about the new movie they're in and important organization D posts a warning about severe weather in the area. You don't go to Twitter to have discussions, you go to Twitter to get news and gossip direct from the source.

    In contrast, sites like Reddit and kBin/Lemmy are about having group conversations around a topic. Interacting with famous people is neat but not the point. Think of Reddit/kBin/Lemmy as random conversations at a party whereas Twitter/Mastodon is some random person on the corner shouting to a crowd from a soapbox. #RedditMigration has a much better chance of succeeding simply because the purpose of the site is different. As long as enough people move to kBin/Lemmy to have meaningful conversations (aka content), it will have succeeded.