Yeah, that was my thinking — that for most purposes LibreOffice will replace Microsoft Office fairly well. But I’m always keen to hear what bumps people run into when they switch from the latter. For you it seems there haven’t been any worth mentioning?

Glad to hear it’s gone so smoothly!

Welcome to the resistance! 😄

I did pretty much similar as you, but about a decade ago. Was it really Windows 8 at the time? 7 perhaps? Even then the OS was becoming increasingly bloated, and crudely implementing channels for Microsoft to milk data from users.

For me it wasn’t so much editors and development environment that kept me around, but the Adobe suite — specifically the lack of CMYK support in FLOSS alternatives. In the end I was quite happy to just find workarounds for the few print jobs I would have to do.

Quite often I think people are less resisting a new OS environment than the software available. “I couldn’t use the same shortcuts in [FLOSS package] as in [proprietary software], so I went back to Windows”…

I’m not exactly a hardcore Excel user myself, but I’d be interested to hear how your transition to LibreOffice (I guess the most viable alternative?) will work out.

I genuinely thought we were training Google’s self driving car algorithm, like back when we were proof reading their illegally scanned books’ OCR.

I hope the catch is that everyone who tries to install it from github gets ransomwared.

Bonus if it also rickrolls them all the while.

Yeah, this news cycle may not be the best for CUPS advocacy 😄

I wholly disagree with everything you just said, including that your friends and family by your own assessment are unable to rise above average skills. But you know them better than I do, of course 🤷

It’s free on f-droid, though? https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/

Good discussions can arise from bad takes, and the idea of “failure” can often be an impediment — especially in a forum where users’ yay or nay to a post literally decide its currency and ranking.

Assuming that the poster in this case deleted their post out of “shame” for a “failed idea”, however, is a bit of an overreach without access to their thoughts and motivations. And trying to pass principles about what “we” should or shouldn’t do on that basis is equally flimsy.

I do agree that deleting a post with several replies can be damaging to a discussion — emphasis on the potential, not the actual value of any given Lemmy conversation — but becoming the target for criticism or even ridicule for an ill-considered post isn’t exactly pleasant either. And after a few decades online, I’m not faulting anybody for deleting one post or another, even though I probably don’t understand the reasoning for doing so.

In the end, everybody is on here for different reasons, and all of them are valid. It would be nice to make a noble agreement about what “should” and “shouldn’t” be done when you get massively downvoted, but if people want to curate their pseudonymous online presence to appear less daft than their worst — let 'em.

I’ve been eyeing Pico, but it doesn’t seem to be super well maintained? Do you know if it’s still active?

Pffft, killing football in Italy is as impossible as killing baseball in the US. Italians will go extinct before their favourite teams.

You can’t really do anything right in this field

I agree with a lot of your points, but this is probably the objectively truest one 🙂

+1 for the GIMP3 excitement, and ×1,000,000 for the YouTube gripe.

Technically the blog author is right. Sure, the social aspects of the web go back to the very first chat rooms, but okay. Let’s set a backstop at web 2.0’s blogs. So what is his point, let’s burn down this new foundation on a technicality before it gets off the ground?

Also technically, “social web” is super imprecise when clearly the organisation is supposed to promote and highlight federated platforms. Sounds like somebody did a super lazy brainstorm without looking up from their belly button to consider this exact fallout.

I have the feeling the same somebody will be on the market for a new domain name pretty soon.

The error message says

Could not open library ‘/home/thatsmehere/gems/gems/sassc-2.4.0/ext/libsass.so’

so I’d guess it’s the ruby module since it’s deep in the gems folder…

I don’t know what they haven’t linked it

They sort of have, but without a lot of explanation: it’s the self link directly under the “follow us” header. [Edit: in my browser, the link just directs to the main SWF page, because Wordpress’ ActivityPub plugin is still imperfect.] You have to navigate to their contact page to have it formated as a proper ActivityPub address.

All the more reason to !degoogle your devices.

Perhaps your phone has extra aggressive battery saving settings that kill the background process? The official Syncthing has a setting to run as a persistent service, which always helped me.

Otherwise see if you can make system exceptions for the app to run in the background, and allow it to auto-sync. It’s been a while since I used the forked app, buy it did help me out on a device where the official didn’t work for me.

Hope this helps.

who is downvoting me and why?

You’re probably making them feel stupid, people downvote for no good reason. It’s a them problem, not a you one; everybody should check AlternativeTo before asking for recommendations.

Yeah, phone to laptop, and I recently synced all backups and files from an old phone to a new one, too. Once you have the computer setup, you can basically connect phones by reading its QR code.

If the official Syncthing Android app is giving you a hard time, maybe try Syncthing-fork? IIRC that’s only the daemon and web GUI wrapped as an app. But I’ve used the main app only for the past few years.

I’d really recommend giving Syncthing a second chance, twist a few knobs in the settings until it works. I’ve used it for years with barely a hitch.