Technology

Yeah desktop apps era is back baby. Fuck you cloud.

I'm afraid to find out how many people are still downloading OpenOffice, thinking it's the same software they heard about back in 2010.

I must be one of them. In the last couple of weeks I'm transitioning my apps and services to open source and EU based. I switched from Windows to CachyOS, switched my emails, switched browser, degoogled my phone, deleted FB and X and many more.

It feels so refreshing and free.

Nice. Maybe now Microsoft will respond by ~~offering non-subscription options~~ inventing a new proprietary industry-standard file format so their bloated ransomware remains mandatory.

Took them long enough.

Now how long will it take them to try Linux?

Sure, to avoid costs...

They really don't see the connection with the trade war, buy european movement, boycott america movement, trump presidency in general... Really? Or could it be the editor told them not to mention it?

Don't forget to seed the torrents to help the servers. And donate if you can ✊🏻

I'm glad to see foss Software taking off. In the past, we had to be a tech enthusiast to Realize it with an option. Now it's pretty well known.

The large tech companies didn't get greedy and try to be so gross with privacy settings. People wouldn't make the move. They only have themselves to blame.

If you're into music, there's a great open source synthesizer.

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/

I have a job that involves working with spreadsheets. I have Librecalc at home and both Libre and MSOffice at work. I have also had a college course about using Excel specifically. Both really can do mostly the same things but because MS does everything in a specific (backwards) way, people trained on MS who are not otherwise "computer people" can't cope with needing to unlearn and relearn. So the end result is paraprofessionals are locked in.

It doesn't surprise me, Microsoft is enshitifying everything they have.

Dropped the Word suite and used openoffice, then switched to libreoffice. Definitely a slightly clunkier feel to it, but avoiding yet more subscription, cloud based, internet connection needed, account needed software is becoming more and more important.

Love to see it. I haven't used MS Office in well over a decade at this point and I have no plans to go back. LibreOffice is fantastic, suits all my needs, doesn't pack itself with bloat and it respects my freedom and privacy. What more can I want from an office suite?

It's not just the subscription they want to avoid. Office has been steadily enshitified to the point nobody I know likes using it anymore.

The funny thing is you can still buy Office standalone but you have to actively go looking for it and Microsoft doesn't advertise it because 365 subscriptions make more money.

Microsoft doesn't want you buying standalone versions of software, but they still have to sell it because there's still a market for it.

European countries should adopt linux and these alternatives instead of paying for windows and Microsoft. Much more private too.

I replaced MS Office with libreoffice on my dad's PC and he didnt even noticed for months. Libreoffice is just better.

Is it just me, or do new office features seem kinda pointless or unnecessary?

I use libreoffice the same way I used microsoft office decades ago. Never really cared for 'advanced' or even 'intermediate' features because they are never necessary to what I'm doing.

I can't imagine that people who are more computer-illiterate than me getting significantly more involved in what should be simple and easy to use programs.

Microsoft Office is adding in AI? Spreadsheets can take a lot of work to create, I can just imaging an AI tool going in the messing one little thing up, and it being near impossible to find the error. Or not even know your calculations aren't being done the way you want.

We should all get Signal as well. If you don't have it you'll probably be surprised how many of your contacts do.

Besides the jank, you can set up libreoffice inside a docker container and server it over https. There you now have cheap-ass MS365.