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Sorry brother this makes me twitchy. Needs air.

I disagree.

LibreOffice is a flagship FOSS project - they have delivered genuine benefits to users over a long period of time with no shady financing arrangements or other encumberances - few projects can claim this outstanding status.

They could not have achieved that status if they were dancing along to Microsoft’s merry jig. With very limited resources LO can’t implement microsoft’s proprietary features.

OnlyOffice by comparisson is opensource but has a paid tier intended for corporate clients. That being the case they really need to offer better compatibility.

That’s right. I think vibecoding generally refers to people who don’t understand code and don’t have the ability to plan around potential problems.

Oh sure.

OnlyOffice compatability with MS is much, much better than LO.

However, I think LO is focused on compatibility with the spec rather than MS - so its an ideological thing. Not much comfort if you want comments in documents I guess.

OpenOffice hasn’t released a major version since 2013.

My team uses LibreOffice exclusively, and extensively. It’s fine.

Why can’t passion projects be a thing anymore ? Because they can be decompiled ?

LLMs are perfectly capable of writing correct code

My understanding is that this is only partly true.

The problem as I understand it is that an LLM can create a code base for a prompt like “create an android app where I can record my medications”, and it might be “correct” and surprisingly usable. However, as your app evolves and “develops” it will be a mess, and the cognitive load quickly becomes unbearable. Everything feature breaks a heap of stuff and every fix breaks more things.

This is so cringe.

The symbolism is so heavy handed and awkward.

Literally every country in the world puts itself “first”, without stupid flag games.

I’m a fan of tiny homes. It’s a credible way to address property price increases. Its one of the few measures that can increase supply, and simply the availability of these cheaper options can take some of the heat out of the market for more expensive options.

That said, these only have 3 small windows each?

Yea but there’s 2 of them and they’re air gapped.

There’s this specific issue, which is critically important, but also just content management generally.

I think micro instances are a real target for people with nefarious intentions - whether it’s porn, trolling, spamming, fascist groups, whatever.

The hardware and software aspects should be relatively straight forward. The real difficulty will be monitoring new communities, and users.