what makes their office software so much better than, say, libreoffice? i don’t work an office job, and haven’t had the misfortune of running windows since i dropped windows 7, but when i did switch, the programs seemed basically the same. office software seemed like a solved problem by then. what new features has microsoft added and convinced people they need that foss options don’t have?

makes me think of the loopholes christian teenagers come up with to claim they’re totally not having premarital sex.

what’s the association of noodles?

i don’t think we ought to be implying that colonization is cool.

maybe something derived from dekotora? it has most of the same associations as the term we’re looking to replace while not having racist or pejorative origins. deko?

that all makes sense to me. how would you want it to work?

i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it’s not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.