You can still buy a lifetime licenses of office but you have to buy it from 3rd party sellers and then validate the license with M$. Example Deal..

I bought 2 of them and also saved the install binary to have office suite.

I use libreoffice personally but I have family members that get frustrated when they cannot find the same formatting options

newsblur

I’m having a hard time believing that is the case for “search.” Cards and “google news” is another story.

As much as I dislike Google’s practices, they are doing a service by indexing where websites are and allowing them to be found based on keywords.

I feel if I go to “google.com” and search for <some Canadian news site> Google should show me links to <some Canadian news site> so that I can visit the site directly. Any law that retards that is shooting Canadian news outlets in the foot.

Now if Google somehow finds what you’re looking for and does not take me directly to the website and instead parses the site, presents the content, and shows its own ads, as opposed to ads hosted on <some Canadian news site>, then yeah - google can go play in traffic.

am I understanding it correctly that if I’m in Canada and search for, say ArsTechnica, or other news source, Google will not show those results to me? Like they indexed the site and will omit it from a search?

Or are they pulling news in their “cards” or whatever they call them when they show previews and users never enter the site. Havent used Google Search in so long don’t even know what shenanigans they are up to.