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I get that there’s a relatively distilled Linux user base here in the Fediverse, but what percentage of that group really needs ISOs that quickly, and presumably, often?

Is this to suggest that we’d try more distros if we didn’t have to weigh the time needed to download them?

The cloud idea is better. It would be nice to be able to essentially quicksave to off-site before logging off for an extended period, or even periodically.

On the other hand, how many gigabytes does the average person need to back up on a regular basis? Even power users don’t generate that much data, and I’d expect that they’d have some kind of rolling backup that does files at a time.

Oh, I do hope that there won’t be an influx of Elon Musk deepfakes on Xitter any time soon, because that would be terrible.

LibreOffice have specifically called them out, so I guess the support isn’t as good for ODF as it is for Microsoft’s OOXML.

There might be any one of a number of confusions here, depending how I read your comment. Or there are none at all. Hard to be sure. But for clarification’s sake:

Euro Office is not OnlyOffice. OnlyOffice is not OpenOffice, which is essentially defunct but was the most popular suite that first adopted ODF. OnlyOffice may have been named that way to lure people away from OpenOffice, which was, and is, still in use in some places despite a better non-proprietary option being available. Namely:

LibreOffice is the successor to OpenOffice and uses ODF as its default, so its support is 100%.

OnlyOffice supports* ODF too, but it’s by far not the, uh, only one.

* According to their specifications anyway. I haven’t used it to be able to confirm how good their support is.

They could have supported both by default.

Someone somewhere made the decision to concentrate on OOXML to the exclusion of everything else, either clueless as to how that would look, or hoping that few people would notice and the fall-out would be minimal.

Either way, neglect of the open alternative is not a good look.

I think you were downvoted because Euro Office has made the mistake of supporting Microsoft document formats above all else and don’t have good support for the ODF alternatives at the moment.

They have since said they want to do better, but they’re off on the wrong foot.

Source: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/06/09/libreoffice-brands-euro-office-a-de-facto-ally-of-microsofts-lock-in-strategy/5252854

Yoti is British. I get you were talking about Sony, but I wouldn’t want people to get the impression that this is a strictly Japanese thing.

Oh. Well that’s much better.

I don’t remember seeing it in my distro’s package manager previously, but I have a feeling I might have rejected it for being a Qt app. By default their look and feel doesn’t match my window manager choices, and my distro hasn’t ever handled that automatically, so I may have decided I didn’t like the look of it.

Now I’m aware of qt5ct (changes some of the look and feel of Qt5 apps) so that’s not as much of a problem any more.

They generally share quite a bit of policy with the conservative party though. And where there are politicians changing parties in order to follow the gravy train (rather than the party itself moving right), it’s often from a conservative party to an up-and-coming even-further-right party.

Basically, love of money and sticking the boot in to those who don’t have it.

Only in America

Sadly this part isn’t true. If you want to find a hateful regressive, you only need to look to the right-wing parties in many countries. Sure, there are a few regressives in the fringe left-wing parties too, but the political right has a far more mainstream problem, worldwide.

And it seems like a handful of the party faithful might be waking up to that fact.

I would have recommended WinDirStat myself. I never did like the pie chart style views in programs like Filelight and Baobab.

(I use Graphical Disk Map on Linux. Not quite as full featured as WinDirStat but works in a pinch.)

That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.

Totalitarian governments have two aces up their sleeve when it comes to pushing through totalitarian legislation: 1) Child safety and 2) National security.

Any guesses for which they’ll choose to excuse this one?

Permit me to reiterate an idea I had the last time a self-driving car did something illegal:

All of these cars are being driven by the same software “driver”. That driver is in contempt of the law. Thus it needs to be punished like any other driver in contempt of the law. All fines to be paid by its representative human or company. All incarceration to be for as long as is necessary for the driver to be rehabilitated. If no such rehabilitation is possible, the driver is permanently banned from driving.

By which I mean, all Waymos need to be taken off the road until they’re provably rehabilitated and it is certain that this won’t happen again.

And if Waymo the company thinks that would be detrimental to their business, tough. Take some responsibility and fix your damn cars.

The italic text in Vim threw me for a loop. But I realised it makes sense.

Syntax highlighting already exists in editors. Terminal based ones often implement this in terms of terminal escapes or similar. Most modern terminal emulators support the enable-italic escape. Thus, some combination of these can effectively emulate markdown.

What I do note is that my root Linux consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]), and LMDE) don’t support italics, suggesting the Vim instance is running in a full-screen terminal emulator under some windowing system or another.

That seems like overkill just for italics in an otherwise text-only interface, but maybe I’m missing something (patience being one possibility).

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

As I said in another comment (maybe I should have edited the original):

I don’t think that’s a good enough excuse to blatantly redefine a well-established term, even if the scope of the redefinition is limited. Even if there’s precedent for having done similarly in the past. (Emphasis original)

And it’s all but guaranteed that someone will attempt to leverage that redefinition outside of the scope.

According to the legislation, the concepts of “user” and “18 and over” are mutually exclusive. Anyone over 18 is “an account holder”.

The most charitable reason I can think of that they would do this is that short phrases like “minor user”, that would otherwise be far better choices, have an unwanted secondary reading that the creators of the law sought to avoid (that being “user of minors”), and they wished to keep things more terse than repeated use of the phrase “user under the age of 18”.

I don’t think that’s a good enough excuse to blatantly redefine a well-established term, even if the scope of the redefinition is limited. Even if there’s precedent for having done similarly in the past.

And it’s all but guaranteed that someone will attempt to leverage that redefinition outside of the scope.

If they’re even remotely like us, then they’ll have the same sort of story, which will entail multiple languages.

That is: To assume that a sapient, language-capable genus evolves in one place, then spreads across a planet from there.

Even if they all speak the same language when they begin the spread, the same sorts of factors will encourage semantic drift in different ways in different places, and over enough time, multiple languages are all-but inevitable.

I’ve been keeping my head in the sand about all this because frankly, smarter people than me are already dealing with it, and if there’s a way out, they will find it.

But I chose to read this. And my major takeaway, beside the point they’re trying to make, is that the California law has taken the asinine step of redefining the word “user”.

I hate this apparent trend of legislatively redefining words to mean what is most convenient for a party, often a powerful one, acting in bad faith, and not what is commonly understood or could reasonably be understood by someone encountering the term for the first time.

May these redefiners each have an excruciatingly bad time with a bone in a “boneless” chicken wing. (In some jurisdictions, “boneless” is now legally “a style of cooking”, and not what it outwardly appears to mean.)

And when trying to use any form of technology more advanced than a spoon, may they ever receive the message “You are trying to use this device but you are not a child. To use it would make you a user and by law all users are children. Please become a child or log off.”