Most users of word & powerpoint are fairly basic users, but if you’re using excel for work then there’s a surprisingly high likelyhood you’re using a sheet written by a wizard with arcane skills in it with the number of VB macros, pivot tables, and things most people don’t even know exist.
Even if you’re just a user and not creating them, and their functionality would better work in a dedicated program or a database, chances are it’d still break unless you’re very lucky.
Source tarballs are often super sensitive to environment and distro such that you’d need to modify them to work on the specific distro/with the specific dep versions and so at that point, just precompile binaries?
It’s also much quicker for the end user, nobody wants to wait 5-60 minutes for their package to install unless you’re making modifications to it
only if chown -R nobody:nobody /usr/lib returns a nonzero status code right?
Why would the Taliban want to shoot down a plane? They’re not terrorists like IS or Al-Qaeda and they’re not antsy enough to shoot down a plane first and think later like Iran are, nor is it an active warzone… They just want to commit human rights violations in peace and shooting down a plane is a golden ticket to foreign intervention.
Green is actual data, white is straight lines connecting the green, but they don’t have data.
The cut across Northern Iran is just a straight line, but they will have stayed north of the border.
Planes don’t fly great circle routes though, there’s overfly fees, weather, mountains, ETOPS and just plain politics… This route looks ordinary compared to some international routes, eg Helsinki to Singapore where you dodge Russia and Ukraine for politics, taking you way below the great circle route, then Turkey for overfly fees and Iran for politics, taking you almost back up to the great circle route, before dipping down again to avoid the Himalayas
Yeah, it’s a classic of locking you in and hiking up the prices, and the people capable of porting those sheets are probably way too overworked dealing with supporting the vast majority who have no idea how they work to spend time on it (or getting fired by Elon for not doing anything while being the single block that supports the tower)
It sucks, but I wouldn’t give up on trying to get them to convert, just be aware that it’s very possible that this will be one of the biggest technical (as opposed to administrative) blocks.