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  • To me, this would be like if VLC made an angry post about the evils of MP3 instead of just making a great player that can handle it (which they have). People still use VLC because we know that it will handle anything. Plus, they've kept the interface simple and intuitive, with most needed functions front and center, with lots of specialized features in menus and settings.

    LibreOffice is losing ground because they don't take design seriously and instead of making interoperability a priority, they would rather complain about user preferences.

  • I last ran serious testing a year ago. I ended up going with OnlyOffice. Despite some drawbacks, it was an easier switch that offered less friction and better file compatibility coming from MS.

  • As per my previous comment, it should offer reasonable use of screen space, visual hierarchy, and well-reasoned organization. Moving bad menus to a different arrangement on the screen doesn't magically make them into good menus.

    As a first step, it was a good move, although it was a decade late when it came out. They still haven't done a major redesign another decade on.

  • True, but it is a purely aesthetic rearrangement of the menus. It doesn't make it any more straightforward to navigate. Plus it doesn't really function correctly on Windows (and it takes up just as much screen space).

    It was a good step when they rolled it out about a decade ago, but they still haven't done the work to make it better organized or show appropriate hierarchy.

  • Creating and replicating genes is a very cool technology. But it is a far cry from going into every cell and replacing the DNA without causing any damage.

  • I've had a relatively good experience with OnlyOffice, although it has some issues.

    Personally I don't see interoperability as an anti-open issue, but I can appreciate the stance. I think I have to investigate to understand how the Microsoft format diverges from the open standard for office XML files, or in what way the format remains proprietary. I had been under the impression that OnlyOffice follows the open standard.

    OnlyOffice does ape Microsoft Office in a lot of ways but I see that as a positive. Users are far more likely in my opinion to switch to something that looks and feels familiar.

    LibreOffice is hard to use. The menus and shortcuts are not well organized and the entire suite feels like a relic from the early 2000s. If they invested in a modern UI with less friction for users who are looking for MS alternatives, they wouldn't be facing competition from projects like OnlyOffice. If they invested in feature parity for mobile users, they wouldn't be losing potential users to those who offer it.

    They have an incredibly powerful backend with far more capability than the more junior OnlyOffice. Yet they fail to recognize why that just doesn't matter to the majority of users. Most users just want to quickly author and edit files, share them with other users, and get on with the next task. LibreOffice has become overly fixated on niche features and optimizations that are very cool from a technical standpoint but are totally out of touch.

    By the way, LibreOffice also supports OOXML, so... do with that what you want.

  • Linking to my recent weather app review for Overmorrow, a fantastic weather app.

  • You have to take the square root of each. Then it should be the same

  • I've been running Booklore for a while now, and was actually looking into calibre-web automated lol.

    I'm interested if it has WebDAV support. It's maybe a niche feature but I just discovered a great app that has it for backup option.

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  • MSF said it wasn’t able to indicate the armed men’s affiliation.

    Since they have issued multiple statements against Israeli forces in the past, it seems likely that this is Hamas or another Palestinian group.

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    Kenya airport strike leaves thousands of passengers stranded

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    Where the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation stands as it enters its 3rd week

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  • I'm surprised Qatari state media is exposing Iran's nationalist military parades in the wake of these protests.

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    Iran Protester Dies in Custody, Raising Fears of Execution

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    China to scrap tariffs for most of Africa from 1 May, says Xi Jinping

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    Hundreds of thousands join Iran protests around the world

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    Working people can't take off time to vote. Poor people can't take off time to vote. Students, teachers, can't take off time to vote. So in-person voting favors retirees, wealthy people, and business owners like farmers who can set their own hours.

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  • If you are already doing Jellyfin, you can sync as much or little to your phone as you want. Just use finamp. It's a very nice player for Android that connects to your Jellyfin and allows you to download any synced music on the go or stream it directly.

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    Android TV app for music?

  • Yeah, she has faced a lot of criticism in the last few years; some of it undeserved, some entirely deserved.

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    Iran sentences Nobel laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison

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