Probably not because it would need to be an off-the-peg solution with support included for my bosses to even begin to consider it. But I have heard of Collabora and I know it’s decent.
More in the running would be a cloud solution from the amazing Framasoft, including Framapad
None of this is to disparage LibreOffice, which apparently offers value to many people and that’s great.
The angry vituperative tone here just makes me disinclined to read closely. Seriously, if you want convince people, this is not the way to to do it. It’s a shame because you seem to have some valid points.
That does make sense. Thanks.
Interesting insight, thanks.
Honest question. In the era of collaborative document editing on browser-based platforms, who is using this software and what are they using it for? I work with documents for my job and it’s been literally decades since I used a local standalone word processor.
please do it in the politics community in
To spare you the trauma of hearing an opinion you don’t agree with? Contemporary US politics in a microcosm!
It was not me who made the comparison.
To distrohope! Way to inadvertently coin a useful word.
It’s fine. Not a fan of the AI garbage generator at the top. For obscure queries Big G still returns the best results and this will not change any time soon.
Something else that won’t change: If you’re not paying for a service, then that service will be trying to monetize you in some other way and will therefore have an incentive to spy on you.
Indeed, this is just the pragmatism-vs-idealism debate.
I am a pragmatist, you are an idealist. In my view, by asking for everything you are more likely to get nothing. It’s not worth it. It’s irresponsible.
this sounds just like the pre-election arguments in favor of Democrats.
Yes, and excellent arguments they were. What a different world we might live in today if just a handful of idealists had decided to suck it up and vote for the Democrat instead of the third-party purist who made their heart sing.
if this slice approaches zero, then why it is better to stay with Firefox rather than moving on to more radical solutions?
Because history shows that “radical solutions” are almost always a mirage. We already have an excellent browser made by a flawed but generally admirable company. If there are problems, the solution is to fix them, not to burn it all down.
Unfortunately it’s more complex than that, because of the issue of the rendering engine. If Firefox-based browsers disappear, the W3C (which controls web standards, including questions of privacy) will be de-facto controlled by a cabal of corporations. The last voice that cares even slightly about our privacy will be gone.
Opt-out telemetry is bad, overpaid executives is bad. The alternative is worse.
I just copy paste commands from Arch wiki and it just magically works without me knowing anything about it.
Join the club.
Impressive. But I believe I can go one better. Mine has a 3-inch screen and no SIM card in it.
In a way it’s even scarier than that. Most younger Chinese do not even know those things happened. I can confirm this incredible fact from personal experience. At this point “Tiananmen Square 1989” has more meaning to the average educated Westerner than it does over there. It has been scrubbed from history.
Agreed. In theory that problem can be dealt with by properly regulated competition.
Fair point. I just looked into this and what I said was roughly correct: there are indeed somewhat open elections at the local level in China, but further up the pyramid everything is locked down by the Communist Party hierarchy, as you say.
Turns out to be a pretty complicated system in theory, and it must work to some degree because China just had 40 years of incredibly successful development.
Completely agree. Self-delusion is such a temptation and the danger is real.
Voting? Democratic elections are literally not a thing in China, at least not higher than the level of the village. There are no political parties other than the Communist Party. But for Western democracies I do agree. We have no excuses.
The energy density of batteries just keeps increasing, for cars at least it’s now good enough. I agree completely about the rest but this was meant to be a happy thread! I agree with OP that we need to talk about good news too sometimes.
Best ask in a more specialized forum. Personally I rent so I have to take what I’m given.
Seconded. Been a user for years without a single problem.
PS: There’s also Proton and Posteo, they’re all fine. The important bit is to pay for it. This is a critical hub for your personal data. It’s completely aberrant that people have allowed themselves to be trained to accept a free service in exchange for spying. A dollar or two a month is not prohibitive for anyone. We should all be paying for this service.