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This might sound stupid but git?
I thought about it, but I don't think my teacher knows how to use git. He's already having issues importing a .odt into google drive if that tells you his technical ability.
My idealistic brain says that if he's a teacher and wants you to learn stuff nonstop, he can put in the effort to learn git. But my realistic brain says that teachers are often hypocritical assholes with too much power
Okay, so the question is, if you enable tracking changes (seems the easier solution?) in LibreOffice, will that transfer if he opens the file in Google Docs or Word?
I don't have an answer, I'm not up to date on how G and M$ mess up open file formats. But maybe this is an avenue to explore.
Git is not stupid. It's common. With markdown of course.
The teacher just wants to see proof that he wrote it himself and not an ai
XKCD 2501.
The nice thing about xkcd is it's been running for so long that a random one is new again. It's the modern version of The Far Side.
I couldn't decide how to comment this better, so here's two versions of a comment:
It may be common among nerdy IT guys?