This is about the most recent version of LibreOffice on Windows 10. I can’t speak for other versions.

My daughter worked hard on her social studies essay. I type things in for her because she’s a really bad typist, but she tells me what to write… but I didn’t remember to manually save her social studies essay yesterday, and for some reason the ThinkPad rebooted, LibreOffice crashed and we lost the whole thing… because autosave was not automatically on when I installed it.

No, recovery didn’t work. We just got a blank file.

I rewrote it for her based on the information we had and what I remembered and tried to make it sound like what a 13-year-old would write because it was basically my fault and she did do the work. I did have her sit with me as I wrote it in case she didn’t like something I wrote, but it was sort of cheating. I’m okay with that cheating since I know she worked hard on it.

First, though, I went into the settings and turned on autosave.

I like LibreOffice, but why the hell is that not on automatically? Honestly, I don’t really understand why someone wouldn’t want their documents autosaved, but I’m pretty sure most people would want that.

This isn’t fucking 1993. I shouldn’t have to remember to save a document anymore and it shouldn’t be lost forever because of it.

Like I said, I like LibreOffice. I don’t really want to trust documents to Microsoft or Google. But this was really annoying.

  • @generichate1546
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    610 months ago

    Man the best for learning to type was AIM in the long before times. Without that program I’d still be chicken pecking.

    What do you mean “tell me you graduateed high school in 2000 with out telling me”?

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Playing games online was huge in getting me to type, especially because I was so young and didn’t want to use ventrillo

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      For me it was learning dvorak during covid times. Went from 60 wpm with subpar typing technique to 120 wpm with proper touch typing

      • @generichate1546
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        110 months ago

        Yeah but you gotta be on your keyboard right? Pretty sure the qwerty board is a due to trying to keep keys from jamming on a typewriter.