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points by pjmlp 3 days ago | 0 comments

For work, not due to other requirements, however for personal documents I fully agree with your first point, MS Office 2.0 is good enough to type in some snail letters, school reports or CVs.

[–] haunter 3 days ago

Also there is security. I think, I just guess, these old 16bit file formats are all exploitable to some extent

[–] pjmlp 3 days ago

Yes, however if you are only using them privately as a modern typewriter for stuff that is anyway going to be sent on paper, there is less of a concern.

Now sharing files with others is another matter, and I fully agree.

[–] londons_explore 3 days ago

Doubt you'd be storing important ssh keys on the same VM

[–] ale42 2 days ago

It's not a VM, as far as I understand. Possibly OTVDM.

[–] pjmlp 3 days ago

You would be surprised on how some offshoring projects go, which anyway has zero to do with what I was talking about.