I feel like I’m the last person alive writing in Word, but wanted to share this because it might save someone some heartache.
I am used to Word autosaving relentlessly; for the last few years it didn’t really even have a “File>Save” command that I could see–it just autosaved like every five seconds or something. It took me a long time to get used not clicking File>Save at the end of every writing session, and I never really trusted it–with good reason, it turns out.
Apparently, when you turn off Word’s new ai features, AutoSave is disabled and cannot be turned back on. There is toggle button in the upper left for it, but when I try to toggle it on, it says “Autosave is not available because of your privacy settings.” I worked in my document yesterday, put my computer to sleep with the doc still open on the taskbar (my usual habit), and when I opened it today, the new work I did yesterday was gone.
This time I only lost about 300 words, which I had typed into my document from my longhand-writing in a notebook (so I guess I kind of autosaved them that way!), but if I’d really been on a roll, this could have been a disaster.
Be careful out there. Everything is terrible!
Yeah, they’re baking it into essential compontents now so we’ll stop turning it off. Noticed that in several programs. FFS I hate all of these tech bros.
Please may I introduce you to my good friend LibreOffice, which does everything Microsoft Office does except *checks notes* get progressively more hostile with every update. Free and open source, highly reliable, no AI, and it can save in Microsoft formats so you can pretty easily send files back and forth between programs as long as you’re not getting truly crazy with custom formatting options.
EDIT IMPORTANT ADDITION: Also the autocorrect works. Because again: no AI. (Don’t know if that’s a problem in Word yet but it’s a nice problem in google’s products.)
it is. sincerely really weird that 2016 nostalgia is a trend. like i knew this day would come but not for specifically 2016. the meme that year was about how this was the worst year ever for most people
‘lazy people don’t feel guilty about not doing anything’ is insane to me and I have been trying to make my brain believe it for a long time, it shocked me to my core when I first heard it
An important corollary to “if you were faking your mental illness, you could stop whenever you wanted.”
ALT
