Mane25

joined 1 year ago
[–] Mane25 18 points 1 year ago

Nope you can't access them to discourage people from using Reddit, that's the protest.

[–] Mane25 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The whole point is that you can't access them.

[–] Mane25 1 points 1 year ago

As a Dvorak user, Dvorak is pretty terrible for single-finger typing since the focus is on hand-alternation. If I had the choice I'd probably choose this.

There have been layouts developed for single or limited-finger use and I think it's a shame they never caught on.

[–] Mane25 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a power user, who uses spreadsheets every day professionally, OnlyOffice isn't full-featured enough for my needs. LibreOffice is the only free software that's adequate for my job.

[–] Mane25 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's because America has woken up. Given that the blackout was planned for 2 days I'm actually quite encouraged that there are still 6500 after then. Even many of the ones that have opened have opened pending further discussion on the next steps. I'm not optimistic about the overall outcome for Reddit, but the more people that can be driven to alternatives the better.

[–] Mane25 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Fewer than I thought though, I would have thought the whole thing would have evaporated by now.

[–] Mane25 3 points 1 year ago

I presume they could but then those subs would be unmoderated which would be a huge legal risk.

[–] Mane25 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apache OpenOffice hasn't had a major release since 2014 whereas LibreOffice, its de facto successor, is actively developed and modern.

Unfortunately OpenOffice still has name recognition which leads casual users to still download it as a replacement to commercial office suites, despite being very out of date. It's kind of become a bit of an embarrassment to open source software and really should be discontinued, but a small handful of developers insist on keeping it on life support.

See this open letter https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

[–] Mane25 38 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This seems to be really dated, shouldn't really be promoting things like OpenOffice now.

[–] Mane25 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good on them to have stuck to their principles. For what it's worth I messaged the mods over there asking them nicely to give us a link here. You can only ask.

[–] Mane25 4 points 1 year ago

The thing about that is everyone believes the way they don't pronounce it is the posh way.

Where I grew up, calling it skon would get you labelled posh.

[–] Mane25 9 points 1 year ago

Ah, I'd been staring at that page for ages and missed it. Thank you.

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