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A reddit post in r/fednews. Trump Took Away Adobe Acrobat and it took Me 45min to Combine Files Fed only Not that this matters but for anyone who thinks this is creating efficiency, Trump/Elmo took away my agencies Adobe acrobate away which means I can't edit documents. So instead of being efficient and taking 5seconds to combine a pdf, I took 45min along with IT to combine files. That's how I spend my time these days, trying to overcome the obstacles they put in place so I can do my job. For all this talk about government employees not doing work, I'm working double time just to keep up with what they are doing.

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Goddamnit, i wish people would understand that this is the entire point! They don't want government employees to do their jobs, that's why they're firing all of them!

Our entire infantilized society is too dependent on authority to understand when that authority has turned on it and then has no conception of how to fight back against it except to do their jobs harder like for the love of any and all good things please pull your heads out of the fucking sand!

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You can join PDFs in GIMP in a pinch.

Its not efficient but its possible..

[–] AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

NAPS2 will do it too, and quickly.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

This is fake news. Trump loves pdf files.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

Here to plug Stirling PDF as free and very nice to use to do anything like that. Had to use it cuz foxxit moved signatures to paid? Or forced to use an account idk. Annoying.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago

Fuck Trump but fuck Adobe too. There are free and open source alternatives, acrobat is a bloody scam.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 hours ago

Not paying for Adobe products might be the only thing this admin does that I'll support

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I mean, I typically use pdftk for stuff like that, but I get that's not for everyone. Taking away a software licence without checking if anyone needs it is just crazy. Don't they use it for redaction and stuff like that as well?