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Dread First said:
If you couldn't afford the $400 license for Office 2003/2007/2010, and you found Microsoft Works fucking useless, then OpenOffice.org was basically the "go-to." Not just on Linux, but also Windows and OSX.
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It was dead simple to get a free copy of Office 97, 2000, or XP going. We used to burn a copy that we got for friends.

Later when I was trying to run stuff on Linux Abiword was both more compatible and much faster than OpenOffice which was notorious for using a ton of RAM. Most people at home had limited use for Excel, presentations had a bit of niche at school.

It wasn't until Office 2007 and the advent of the xml based formats like docx that things got more messy. It isn't straightforward to pirate Office 2007 onward, and because of docx you couldn't limp along with the copy of Office 2000 you'd gotten from a neighbor years ago. But that's around the time google docs kinda ate their lunch for home use.
 
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Baraka Obama said:
It was dead simple to get a free copy of Office 97, 2000, or XP going. We used to burn a copy that we got for friends.

Later when I was trying to run stuff on Linux Abiword was both more compatible and much faster than OpenOffice which was notorious for using a ton of RAM. Most people at home had limited use for Excel, presentations had a bit of niche at school.

It wasn't until Office 2007 and the advent of the xml based formats like docx that things got more messy. It isn't straightforward to pirate Office 2007 onward, an because of docx you couldn't limp along with the copy of Office 2000 you'd gotten from a neighbor years ago. But that's around the time google docs kinda ate their lunch for home use.
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Unfortunately, I cut my teeth on the Office 2007 era-onward. School and library computers used Office 2003 on Windows XP, but we had Windows Vista Home Premium on a shitbox family PC tower. Nowadays, it's piss easy to pirate Office 2003/2007 and actually run it under Wine without any gaps in functionality. Product keys are available on GitHub and they don't hook up to online activation servers.
 
Milles d'Allemagne said:
its still a shit business that would love to act like microsoft and lock users in their ecosystem with proprietary file formats. Im hoping the upcoming nextcloud fork will be better about open source as well (they have actual working build instructions even)
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I'd like to see Euro-Office succeed, particularly if they fix printing, but I'm sceptical. Work in their Github so far seems to be mostly around rebranding, build process and Docker images. But not seeing much in the way of fixing existing bugs or adding new features. I guess time will tell.

toe_schnitzel6969 said:
i use freeoffice btw
it has the only word processor besides micropeen's that doesn't multilate and rape my word documents
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https://www.softmaker.com/en/discover-softmaker-office-comparison

My office suite requirements are viewing documents and spreadsheets at the moment. But there's several features that I've used in the past missing from FreeOffice that are present in the paid SoftMaker Office. Judging it by the feature table, I can see FreeOffice being sufficient for most home users while business users would more likely need the paid version.
 
Dread First said:
actually run it under Wine without any gaps in functionality.
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Only issue I've found is that it seems to struggle with context menu and the like with them often times just disappearing as if you clicked away.

Office 2010 should also work under Wine with no serious issues too either, I think it's when you get to Office 2013 that you run into activation hell but idk. Up to 2016 should run just enjoy activating it, stalker child.
 
General Zoider said:
I hope that waydroid can be removed from wayland so that it can be used on x11 desktop environments without the need of a weston wrapper.
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I never cared enough to look into it but why is it hard dependent on Wayland? Could it not just as easily have both an X11 and Wayland backend?
 
The Count of Monte Cristo said:
I never cared enough to look into it but why is it hard dependent on Wayland? Could it not just as easily have both an X11 and Wayland backend?
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as far as my own digging seems to go it seems to be due to how it handles graphics and input. where waydroid makes use of a wayland client to pass the graphical and input data into and out of the container.
 
ProudSkibidiTolietAryan said:
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its done....

its gotten further...
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Howdy yall lets talk.
I think its pretty safe to say that this project is on hold. Not fully dead but I want to explain why there is no update. Ive been working on a project for something else and while I do like working on this there is not much use I can get out of it like the project I actually am working on right now. I always really liked doing this. I may return back to this eventually but since late febuary its been on hold and after this post you see right here was the last time I touched it. If you want to continue on or try to learn reverse engineering I can gladly give you the decompiled binary and my QEMU fork and everything you need if you want to learn and tinker with it, just message me and ill provide you with everything and more. But for now im on temporary hold.
 
There's some kind of new optimization for VRAM on Linux:

To my understanding it basically just sets the games to high priority in terms of memory management and tells everything else to fuck off. Currently only works on Cachy OS without tinkering. And people are showing huge gains in some games:
I noticed that games I run through Proton use noticeably more memory than on Windows, so I think it might give a noticeable boost in performance.

Also:
Valve engineer Natalie Vock, working on the Linux graphics stack and the RADV Vulkan driver, created a set of kernel patches and user-space utilities to address poor VRAM prioritization on Linux.
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Dude you're not fooling anyone lol.
 
Tap Water Enjoyer said:
To my understanding it basically just sets the games to high priority in terms of memory management and tells everything else to fuck off.
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This is correct, currently before the patch games had to fight background applications for vram, and if the vram overflowed the exact opposite happens, the games vram was just as likely to be dumped to ram as everything else.

Some bad news is that this heavily relies on systemd, so it'll be a while until someone can come up with a openrc service, if at all.
 
Tap Water Enjoyer said:
There's some kind of new optimization for VRAM on Linux:

To my understanding it basically just sets the games to high priority in terms of memory management and tells everything else to fuck off. Currently only works on Cachy OS without tinkering. And people are showing huge gains in some games:
I noticed that games I run through Proton use noticeably more memory than on Windows, so I think it might give a noticeable boost in performance.

Also:

Dude you're not fooling anyone lol.
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Digital Foundy and most news outlets that reported this are full of shit, first of all. This guy is an independent contractor hired by Valve, not a Valve employee.

Monkey's paw:
Q: I don’t use systemd! What now?

A: All the user-space utilities hard-depend on systemd. Without systemd, you’d need to write your own utilities that make use of my kernel patches.Something needs to manage cgroups in your system, and that something needs to enable the right cgroup controllers and set the right limits (see also the long-winded explanation about how this works).
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There needs to be another utility based on his original work that interacts with cgroups without systemdicks. Could be some hope for it, as you'd be killing two birds with one stone by also ridding the world of yet another Rust-exclusive program.

"Natalie"'s powerword is Friedrich Vock. Here (A) is his introduction post on a Mastodon instance for gamedevs:
Everyone seems to be doing #introduction posts, so hey why not do one too :)
Hi! My name is Friedrich Vock, I'm 17 years old and I'm currently studying Computer Science.
Aside from that, I love everything graphics and GPUs and have been trying out different kinds of smaller or larger projects in that area.
I'm also contributing to the community Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, RADV, working as an independent contractor for Valve.
Nice to be here!
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Two years later (A):
Hi! Welcome to my blog page! 🐸

My name is Natalie Vock, I’m 19 years old, and I like everything low-level, Linux, and GPUs, which I occasionally blog about here.

In parallel to studying Computer Science at the University of Konstanz I’m working as an independent contractor for Valve on RADV, the community-developed open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs.
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Yet another glimpse into the pit of unending horrors. Smart young guy with STEM interests, troons out before he's even 20. Bleak.
 
A bill on operating system level age verification (NOT attestation) has been introduced to the House of Representatives.
The bill is H.R.8250. The bill's text has not been released yet but the title suggest what will be inside.
Its a bipartisan bill.
I didn't watch the full video because I wanted to be like Paul Revere and spread it as fast as possible.
We. Are. So. Fucked. Please I swear if your in the U.S. write an email to your Senators and Representatives NOW.
Find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Find your senator: https://www.senate.gov/senators/
 
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Tap Water Enjoyer said:
There's some kind of new optimization for VRAM on Linux:

To my understanding it basically just sets the games to high priority in terms of memory management and tells everything else to fuck off. Currently only works on Cachy OS without tinkering. And people are showing huge gains in some games:
I noticed that games I run through Proton use noticeably more memory than on Windows, so I think it might give a noticeable boost in performance.

Also:

Dude you're not fooling anyone lol.
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So you're telling me Windows just doesn't have this problem?
 
jeanblunt said:
A bill on operating system level age verification (NOT attestation) has been introduced to the House of Representatives.
The bill is H.R.8250. The bill's text has not been released yet but the title suggest what will be inside.
Its a bipartisan bill.
I didn't watch the full video because I wanted to be like Paul Revere and spread it as fast as possible.
We. Are. So. Fucked. Please I swear if your in the U.S. write an email to your Senators and Representatives NOW.
Find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Find your senator: https://www.senate.gov/senators/
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so im gonna be a bit hopium and say while voting probably isnt gonna solve this dont we use free software and have access to the source code?
so like we do have the ability to at least save ourselves, right?
 
Reject rich text editors, word processors, spreadsheets, RETVRN to emacs + org
 
jeanblunt said:
A bill on operating system level age verification (NOT attestation) has been introduced to the House of Representatives.
The bill is H.R.8250. The bill's text has not been released yet but the title suggest what will be inside.
Its a bipartisan bill.
I didn't watch the full video because I wanted to be like Paul Revere and spread it as fast as possible.
We. Are. So. Fucked. Please I swear if your in the U.S. write an email to your Senators and Representatives NOW.
Find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Find your senator: https://www.senate.gov/senators/
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LITERALLY how is this enforceable? The only way I see it if you have systemd-ageattestationd-daemond running a hook that upstream sites can ping to determine if you have a kosher system, in which case spoofing is trivial. Even if they require ID verification, you can always just <insert glownigger instructions here>. If you know you know.
 
jeanblunt said:
A bill on operating system level age verification (NOT attestation) has been introduced to the House of Representatives.
The bill is H.R.8250. The bill's text has not been released yet but the title suggest what will be inside.
Its a bipartisan bill.
I didn't watch the full video because I wanted to be like Paul Revere and spread it as fast as possible.
We. Are. So. Fucked. Please I swear if your in the U.S. write an email to your Senators and Representatives NOW.
Find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Find your senator: https://www.senate.gov/senators/
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I know who won't be voting for this bill, Thomas Massie, but yet kiwifarmers in the politics thread hate him because he doesn't suck up to Trump 24/7.
 
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