What word processors force you to use Google docs? My copy of Wordperfect doesn't and there are free, open source wordprocessors that don't. Back up can be to an external SSD or two. Trying to help, not chide.
November 7, 2026 at 2:18 AM
What word processors force you to use Google docs? My copy of Wordperfect doesn't and there are free, open source wordprocessors that don't. Back up can be to an external SSD or two. Trying to help, not chide.
Dec 1992: Sharp PA W1200 Word Processor ad from W.H. Smith
(+Brother LW20 Word Processor; Smith Corona XD 4800; Smith Corona XL 2800; and Sharp PA 3000)
«We don't sell you short.»
(+Brother LW20 Word Processor; Smith Corona XD 4800; Smith Corona XL 2800; and Sharp PA 3000)
«We don't sell you short.»
October 25, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Dec 1992: Sharp PA W1200 Word Processor ad from W.H. Smith
(+Brother LW20 Word Processor; Smith Corona XD 4800; Smith Corona XL 2800; and Sharp PA 3000)
«We don't sell you short.»
(+Brother LW20 Word Processor; Smith Corona XD 4800; Smith Corona XL 2800; and Sharp PA 3000)
«We don't sell you short.»
A very large amount of this is directly due to the bogus belief that wordprocessors allow you to typeset your book. In fact they hide many residual artefacts of the writing process which used to be caught by the editors and typesetters, so absence of editors is not the only foolish publisher error.
October 22, 2026 at 8:27 AM
A very large amount of this is directly due to the bogus belief that wordprocessors allow you to typeset your book. In fact they hide many residual artefacts of the writing process which used to be caught by the editors and typesetters, so absence of editors is not the only foolish publisher error.
I've said it before, but Wordperfect 5.1 was one of the best writers tools ever.
All the options you needed. I appreciate the extensive features available on newer wordprocessors, but I only use maybe 5% of those extra options, and only rarely.
All the options you needed. I appreciate the extensive features available on newer wordprocessors, but I only use maybe 5% of those extra options, and only rarely.
August 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I've said it before, but Wordperfect 5.1 was one of the best writers tools ever.
All the options you needed. I appreciate the extensive features available on newer wordprocessors, but I only use maybe 5% of those extra options, and only rarely.
All the options you needed. I appreciate the extensive features available on newer wordprocessors, but I only use maybe 5% of those extra options, and only rarely.
Since LLMs ("AI") are just a more robust version of autocorrect and a wordprocessors word suggestion, how can it assist in learning?
Autocorrect and word suggestion assumes the one doing the writing knows better.
In other words, all of this tech assumes a level of learnedness that already exists.
Autocorrect and word suggestion assumes the one doing the writing knows better.
In other words, all of this tech assumes a level of learnedness that already exists.
Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
July 18, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Since LLMs ("AI") are just a more robust version of autocorrect and a wordprocessors word suggestion, how can it assist in learning?
Autocorrect and word suggestion assumes the one doing the writing knows better.
In other words, all of this tech assumes a level of learnedness that already exists.
Autocorrect and word suggestion assumes the one doing the writing knows better.
In other words, all of this tech assumes a level of learnedness that already exists.
January 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thank you for sharing.
My childhood was very much like that. I was born in the fifties, before ADHD and ASD, so no diagnose or support at all.
In the eighties I became the Empress of Wordprocessors, then slid into ICT, where my weirdness was acceptable.
My childhood was very much like that. I was born in the fifties, before ADHD and ASD, so no diagnose or support at all.
In the eighties I became the Empress of Wordprocessors, then slid into ICT, where my weirdness was acceptable.
March 21, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Thank you for sharing.
My childhood was very much like that. I was born in the fifties, before ADHD and ASD, so no diagnose or support at all.
In the eighties I became the Empress of Wordprocessors, then slid into ICT, where my weirdness was acceptable.
My childhood was very much like that. I was born in the fifties, before ADHD and ASD, so no diagnose or support at all.
In the eighties I became the Empress of Wordprocessors, then slid into ICT, where my weirdness was acceptable.
Dat was de opvolger van Visietekst. Ik heb in m'n studentenbijbaantjes met een stuk of zeven wordprocessors gewerkt.
February 11, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Dat was de opvolger van Visietekst. Ik heb in m'n studentenbijbaantjes met een stuk of zeven wordprocessors gewerkt.
Wasn't no longer having access to notes and drafts something literary researchers bemoaned when authors moved from paper and carbon copies to wordprocessors?
Will this new trend make them happy?
Will this new trend make them happy?
August 4, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Wasn't no longer having access to notes and drafts something literary researchers bemoaned when authors moved from paper and carbon copies to wordprocessors?
Will this new trend make them happy?
Will this new trend make them happy?
Anything you write can and will be used against you.
#Anti-Intelligence, #ai #wordprocessors #writingcommunity
#Anti-Intelligence, #ai #wordprocessors #writingcommunity
November 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Anything you write can and will be used against you.
#Anti-Intelligence, #ai #wordprocessors #writingcommunity
#Anti-Intelligence, #ai #wordprocessors #writingcommunity
Isn't that't Hanson? Their hit was em-bop, not em-dash!
Personally I use the "minus" dash '-'. It bugs me when wordprocessors change it to an em- or en-dash, partially because there is no en-dash or em-dash key
Personally I use the "minus" dash '-'. It bugs me when wordprocessors change it to an em- or en-dash, partially because there is no en-dash or em-dash key
May 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Isn't that't Hanson? Their hit was em-bop, not em-dash!
Personally I use the "minus" dash '-'. It bugs me when wordprocessors change it to an em- or en-dash, partially because there is no en-dash or em-dash key
Personally I use the "minus" dash '-'. It bugs me when wordprocessors change it to an em- or en-dash, partially because there is no en-dash or em-dash key
- not easy ≠ impossible
- I have a lot of sympathy for the economic displacement, which will happen for tasks that can be enshittified
- but LLMs, like spreadsheets and wordprocessors before them, are likely to enable most workers to do more at same pay ⇒ increased inequality, not unemployment
1/
- I have a lot of sympathy for the economic displacement, which will happen for tasks that can be enshittified
- but LLMs, like spreadsheets and wordprocessors before them, are likely to enable most workers to do more at same pay ⇒ increased inequality, not unemployment
1/
December 19, 2024 at 4:24 AM
- not easy ≠ impossible
- I have a lot of sympathy for the economic displacement, which will happen for tasks that can be enshittified
- but LLMs, like spreadsheets and wordprocessors before them, are likely to enable most workers to do more at same pay ⇒ increased inequality, not unemployment
1/
- I have a lot of sympathy for the economic displacement, which will happen for tasks that can be enshittified
- but LLMs, like spreadsheets and wordprocessors before them, are likely to enable most workers to do more at same pay ⇒ increased inequality, not unemployment
1/
I had a saturday job in a shareware place, and we had games for the PCW on the list, I made ok pocket money selling copies at school as the lab with the wordprocessors wasn't staffed by teachers at lunchtime like all the other computer rooms were. ;)
January 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I had a saturday job in a shareware place, and we had games for the PCW on the list, I made ok pocket money selling copies at school as the lab with the wordprocessors wasn't staffed by teachers at lunchtime like all the other computer rooms were. ;)
Indeed, writing is tough. It's always been for me. Writing something, rewriting it, skipping some stuff, restating something else, putting back what I'd skipped, finding it's still not really good etc... I once had a 2-page paper rewritten more than a dozen times. I'm grateful to wordprocessors... 😉
November 1, 2023 at 8:42 AM
Indeed, writing is tough. It's always been for me. Writing something, rewriting it, skipping some stuff, restating something else, putting back what I'd skipped, finding it's still not really good etc... I once had a 2-page paper rewritten more than a dozen times. I'm grateful to wordprocessors... 😉
Stolz auf Erfindung eines mechanischen Wordprocessors, bis ich den Patentantrag "mit 3 Durchschlägen maschinenschriftlich ausfüllen" sollte.
January 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Stolz auf Erfindung eines mechanischen Wordprocessors, bis ich den Patentantrag "mit 3 Durchschlägen maschinenschriftlich ausfüllen" sollte.
wielding often repeated data performing rigorous operations calculating erroneous sullied sentences or reiterated statements
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September 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
wielding often repeated data performing rigorous operations calculating erroneous sullied sentences or reiterated statements
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I'm a little confused by this whole thing to be honest, don't most wordprocessors automatically create em-dashes from hyphens if there's spaces around them? So why would em-dashes necessarily be a sign of AI?
May 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm a little confused by this whole thing to be honest, don't most wordprocessors automatically create em-dashes from hyphens if there's spaces around them? So why would em-dashes necessarily be a sign of AI?
Anyone here using Libre Office?
I tried to run Libre Office Writer just now, and it said it was updating, and once it had finished updating it would not run.
Anyone else had this problem?
#wordprocessors #LibreOffice #writer #writing
I tried to run Libre Office Writer just now, and it said it was updating, and once it had finished updating it would not run.
Anyone else had this problem?
#wordprocessors #LibreOffice #writer #writing
July 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Anyone here using Libre Office?
I tried to run Libre Office Writer just now, and it said it was updating, and once it had finished updating it would not run.
Anyone else had this problem?
#wordprocessors #LibreOffice #writer #writing
I tried to run Libre Office Writer just now, and it said it was updating, and once it had finished updating it would not run.
Anyone else had this problem?
#wordprocessors #LibreOffice #writer #writing
I took typing in 1983 as Freshman in HS. I knew I was going to be doing computers for the rest of my life, so it just seemed logical.
(ASIDE - I sold typewriters/wordprocessors for a bit at a SoCal FEDCO store, too! 🙃)
(ASIDE - I sold typewriters/wordprocessors for a bit at a SoCal FEDCO store, too! 🙃)
March 27, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I took typing in 1983 as Freshman in HS. I knew I was going to be doing computers for the rest of my life, so it just seemed logical.
(ASIDE - I sold typewriters/wordprocessors for a bit at a SoCal FEDCO store, too! 🙃)
(ASIDE - I sold typewriters/wordprocessors for a bit at a SoCal FEDCO store, too! 🙃)
we gonna need to start teaching penmanship again to save the lives of the poor profs who gotta read 'em.
or give the students typewriters or internet-non-connectable wordprocessors.
or give the students typewriters or internet-non-connectable wordprocessors.
August 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
we gonna need to start teaching penmanship again to save the lives of the poor profs who gotta read 'em.
or give the students typewriters or internet-non-connectable wordprocessors.
or give the students typewriters or internet-non-connectable wordprocessors.
Oh yikes yeah with Google docs. Hmm, I will say this- the machine is shit for editing. You def have to take it elsewhere to edit. It makes me wish it was more like other wordprocessors of yore, and was more robust for edits.
Also, the zero writer might be more apt for you then?
Also, the zero writer might be more apt for you then?
May 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Oh yikes yeah with Google docs. Hmm, I will say this- the machine is shit for editing. You def have to take it elsewhere to edit. It makes me wish it was more like other wordprocessors of yore, and was more robust for edits.
Also, the zero writer might be more apt for you then?
Also, the zero writer might be more apt for you then?
I don’t remember arguments about using Wordprocessors. But Wikipedia yes
February 24, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I don’t remember arguments about using Wordprocessors. But Wikipedia yes
weaponize them and make ai more noticible. your pen and wordprocessors are a blade.
specifically a magazine loaded semiauto knife thrower
specifically a magazine loaded semiauto knife thrower
March 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
weaponize them and make ai more noticible. your pen and wordprocessors are a blade.
specifically a magazine loaded semiauto knife thrower
specifically a magazine loaded semiauto knife thrower
Indeed. There are other wordprocessors that save .docx files, some of them quite good, but once you get captured by a feature none of the others have, you're hooked.
[Thanking $deity that I have never been required to use any of this "office productivity" shite]
[Thanking $deity that I have never been required to use any of this "office productivity" shite]
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Indeed. There are other wordprocessors that save .docx files, some of them quite good, but once you get captured by a feature none of the others have, you're hooked.
[Thanking $deity that I have never been required to use any of this "office productivity" shite]
[Thanking $deity that I have never been required to use any of this "office productivity" shite]
Teaching academics enough HTML so they can write their own web pages.
Also means huge remedial load teaching them stuff they should already know, like how to edit text files as well as images, and how to use ftp.
The damage caused by wordprocessors was already incalculable.
Also means huge remedial load teaching them stuff they should already know, like how to edit text files as well as images, and how to use ftp.
The damage caused by wordprocessors was already incalculable.
April 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Teaching academics enough HTML so they can write their own web pages.
Also means huge remedial load teaching them stuff they should already know, like how to edit text files as well as images, and how to use ftp.
The damage caused by wordprocessors was already incalculable.
Also means huge remedial load teaching them stuff they should already know, like how to edit text files as well as images, and how to use ftp.
The damage caused by wordprocessors was already incalculable.