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Google slides color picker1/4/2024 ![]() Every time I have to use either a Google docs document or some Office 365 document, I discover things like nested unordered lists being broken, no styles for some kind of element, not being able to save new styles. It is the kind of software, that is shitty, but millions of people use, because they are unaware of how much better software for the same purpose can be, because they have not tried other options. Google doesn’t make good products anymore, and they destroy all the value in any company they acquire and actually try to do anything with. Their public APIs are a nightmare to work with, sporadically documented, and have clients that either don’t work with my version of Python, have wack 80-deep dependency chains (because they were developed, err auto-generated by a Java engineer) and all the developer ergonomics of a St. Most of their products just die a slow, unfounded death. I cannot in any way show my work GCal on my Google Home Pro Plus Max display that I got for free at CES, because apparently Google Apps business accounts are wholly incompatible with “home” products that can only work with personal, non-Google-apps accounts). It’s still damn hard to find any given setting for a Google thing, and some have bizarre limitations (e.g. GMail won because it was better than Hotmail. Just hilarious how Google is so celebrated for Material Design (yes because everything, including desktop apps, should be touch-optimized) when their actual product design is hot garbage, like most of their products. And can you even have have a company-wide iCloud files system, or can you only share individual files with people? ICloud collaboration works fine in my experience but only on Macs which makes it a non-starter for most companies. You can open online files in the desktop app, but you’ll soon be back to a local copy because working online in the desktop app is unusable for things like “dragging a text box around”. Oh, your company trained everyone how to make sure all files are on the company sharepoint? Not going to stick because the online versions lack extremely basic features like copy-paste that works reliably and “merge cells”. When you drag that back into teams, now it’s on your weird personal sharepoint that you yourself didn’t even know existed. Congratulations now you are owner of the local file presentation-v2_JW-comments.pptx. Oops, you don’t have permission to edit anyway and the sharer doesn’t know how to add you. Are you working in one person’s weird sharepoint without them even knowing they are using sharepoint? Company sharepoint? Onedrive? Nobody knows. Microsoft’s collaboration tools seem designed to ensure no matter what, every file will end up in multiple places online and as multiple local copies.
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