Zoomers & Boomers are the same

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I actually thought I am part of this blessed generation that can use a computer. But rotating a PDF? That beats me.
Edit: In Okular it's actually easy to find this function. I was never looking for this for my whole life.
- The real skillset isn't necessarily knowing how to do these things off tbe top of your head, but knowing how to look them up.
  Perhaps the biggest obstacle for the next generation is how thoroughly Google has enshittified.
  
  Cobbling together four different online tutorials about a vague idea you think the damn program should do is the original "vibe programming". I am looking at you Power Automate.
  
  Vibe programming is the new copying random shit from stackoverflow and hoping it works.
  
  I'm still so mad that power automate requires an online connection to start up and a Microsoft account.
- Just pick up your laptop and rotate it to whatever angle you want.
  
  Instructions unclear. I have a desktop PC and now my monitor arm is broken. My 38 inch screen fell on the floor. You'll hear from my lawyers.
- Ctrl+shift+plus sign
  
  Or ctrl + alt + down arrow also work
- Sounds like something imagemagick could do so that would be my first strategy to try
- LibreOffice Draw should work just fine for that :)
  
  Are you joking right now? I tried opening a pdf with Libre Draw recently but it didn’t work.
  
  No sir or madame, I actually verified by hand before posting that exact comment because while I did recently use it to edit the contents of a pdf (increase contrast on hiking map for BW print), I haven't that often and thus I wanted to find the rotate button myself to make sure I was giving legitimate advice :)
  
  I like the cut of your jib!
  
  KDE Okular to your rescue!
  
  Kay
  
  Try OnlyOffice.
  Or just open it with Firefox like a normal person.
  
  I’m not a normal person.
- PDF is a pointless file format that should not exist. Come at me.
  
  10000 times better than the previously mainstream way which was people sending you office docs expecting you could open that shit.
  
  Yes, but not just that. Opening a document in Word is for the writer.
  A pet peeve of mine is when I'm sent a user guide as a Word document complete with squiggly lines under the words it doesn't know.
  Even worse is when a colleague sends a document like that to a customer.
  PDF is a published file format, I find it hard to imagine a world where you could convince me downloading the user manual for my motherboard or downloading Lego assembly instructions should come as a word document.
  I bet this person thinks all raster images should be bitmaps. Sorry maybe that was too harsh.
  
  It's good for sending documents you don't want to be tampered with because most people don't know how to edit a PDF.
  
  This. I care about graphic design and aesthetics. So when I send a document to a group for review, I’m not taking the risk of giving them something they could mess with.
  
  You can lock other file formats too though
  
  Pdf will always look the same though. A doc/docx file can look wildly different depending on the editor you are using.
  
  Lol
  
  Pointless?? Really? We should have just stuck with postscript? I’m pretty happy with pdf for almost anything as there’s a good chance it’ll render how whoever sent it to me was seeing it. What would you suggest/do different?

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