I’d like to process some Microsoft Word documents on my android tab. Do you have any recommendations on FOSS word editors that work with .doc and .docx on android?

    • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      Had no idea you can setup a full DE & display server on Termux, must be clunky but really cool

      • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, it’s pretty sweet! There’s even a whole sub over at Reddit. But be warned: I once asked politely why they insist on ricing their termux instances - expecting some sincere replies - and I got bullied out of there faster than the Millennium Falcon did the Kessel Run…

              • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
                11·
                2 days ago

                I’m really not deep enough into that culture to understand what you mean. Either that, or it’s that I’m a non native speaker? 😅 Please explain. 🙏 Is it not just a nerdy way of saying “making a Linux desktop environment look fancy”?

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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                  2 days ago

                  “ricing” comes from people “tricking out” Japanese cars by customizing them. I think most people don’t think it’s saying anything negative about Asians but some people take it that way. I think one similar term that sounds much worse is when people call those same Japanese cars “rice burners”. That one sounds derogatory/racist to me

                  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                    21·
                    20 hours ago

                    In climbing, we use carabiners. It used to be common to say 'biner or 'biners for short. But my community stopped saying it that way because we were told that it sounded to close to a derogatory term (beaners) that I had never even heard of before.

                    So to try to be more inclusive, we trained ourselves to not say something that sounded offensive, even though none of us meant it that way. It really isn’t that much to ask IMO to use neutral terms when so many exist.