Is it actually worse in terms of features? I only use LibreOffice and can't tell, maybe I don't know enough to compare to anything else besides in looks.
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It's kind of a miracle if anything in the open source space isn't on fire. The benefit of closed-source is you get to bite the bullet once, have the same issues and get told the same workarounds as everybody else.
But to your original question: LibreOffice still works all right for desktop editing, and if the OpenOffice debacle from many years ago is an indicator, it'll probably still keep running with marginal updates until the heat death of the universe
Read this entire post with the understanding that this guy is a crypto bro who created a "smart billing" platform.
So when he says
The healthier model may require paying for things that used to appear free.
It makes me wonder what his payment solution actually looks like.
Piefed has a little red icon next to the source which recommends checking MBFC for its credibility.
Overall, we rate New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) Right-Center Biased and questionable due to the promotion of propaganda, poor sourcing techniques, a lack of transparency and several failed fact checks.
Imagine the power that would come from administering the UBI currency. With all the privacy and non-regulation of cryptocurrency, exploitation is so deliciously close.
It's a good thing that nobody will ever abuse this. People are just too pure. Trust it.
X views are really questionable though. You scroll across this in a feed, it counts as a view. (This is great for juicing your numbers if people are only familiar with other platforms' numbers.
TPBN YouTube channel (their primary outlet) has 64k subscribers, averages 5k views per podcast episode. Except for the OpenAI announcement that has 13k, and all the comments are negative.
For "low" hundreds of millions of dollars. Wtf.
One of the founders is the guy who invented Soylent, and now shills nicotine pouches.
I used to believe this too, and unfortunately my experience on Linux kind of backed this up. I assumed that it would always be features = resource usage. XFCE is light because it's missing things. GNOME is heavy because it has good window management and keyboard shortcuts. Windows 10 is heavy for the same reasons as GNOME.
The trueism kind of works if nothing else changes, but in this case, there's no reason the codebase between Windows, Linux, and Mac would be the same.
AFAIK the one company that has been battle-tested is Mullvad, everything else requires (more) crossing your fingers.
Nord has subpar standards when it comes to logging now, and if that's in line with recent Proton behavior, you might that interpret that as a potential willingness to cave to the US with minimal pushback
In theory, I think all VPN usage is grounds to get you put on a list, but Nord is considered a relatively "normie" company by privacy aficionados. Everybody and their mother has seen an ad for it by this point. (The privacy aficionados will probably tell you it's not good enough, but that's a can of worms I won't get into right now.)
I wish GPUs in AI data centers (or worse, the ones purchased and not installed yet) were more general-purpose than they appear to be. That's the part that makes them AI data centers: the optimized hardware.
I do agree things are complex. And I like reading about the intricacies of that complexity. The overall picture is still a pretty bad one, though.
This piece needs a conflict of interest statement; the author is a social media (BlueSky) director telling us social media is unfairly maligned.