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Why Mozilla?? …locals.com/…/firefox-money-investigating-the-biz…

Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters.

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I just don’t want my content scattered across different platforms in suboptimal quality and be forced to pay

That and also the fact that sometimes content vanishes from those platforms because of licensing agreements and/or get censored like many older TV Shows have gotten.

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OnlyOffice. Has outstanding compatibility with documents

It might be decent, but is isn’t “outstanding”, advanced formatting and features sometimes fails. Another thing about OnlyOffice is that it is a web app, it might work fine for smaller documents, however when you’ve to load a 50+ page document scrolling around becomes really bad as you’ll have to scroll and wait 1-2 seconds for each page to load.

Things like opening PDFs, viewing various video formats etc, are built-in and work flawlessly on pretty much all Linux distros

It isn’t “flawlessly”. Forms in PDFs aren’t supported properly.

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I use office almost daily, Libreoffice is fine for local editing and office online works if I have to collaborate.

So you’re essentially making the point of the article “office online works if I have to collaborate” implied that LibreOffice really isn’t up for collaboration.

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Yes, libreoffice doesn’t really work for live collaboration. But office online is a good solution for that collaboration (…) Therefore, the author’s conclusion (you need windows to collaborate on word docs) is still wrong.

The author isn’t wrong neither he’s right as the actual answer is: it depends. We don’t even have to go as far as “live collaboration” if you’ve to do serious work in MS Office apps just emailing a document to a co-worker that uses LibreOffice can end up badly. LibreOffice works, yes, until you find your custom TOC broken, macros not working, embedded content from other documents not there… images scattered around or even paragraphs ending on a different page just because the MS version of some font is slightly different from what comes with LibreOffice but different enough to totally trash your document. Even Office online has issues with some of the things I described, let alone LibreOffice and this is precisely why people in big companies buy MS Office.

Let me show you even on a very simple document I just made how wrong you are. I created the following document in MS Word and then proceeded to open it in LibreOffice just look at the comments:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f2684d35-6584-4f75-9bc7-677dcf8d85a1.jpeg

It’s all simple formatting a couple of headings, text and a bullet list and yet it fails.

Now even better is that if I change the document in some way in LibreOffice and try to save it I get this message:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5c8a65fc-9dcd-4b1a-9715-78dd9c7066f5.jpeg

So… LibreOffice can’t even ensure that the most basic formatting and features are displayed and saved properly. So much for “it works fine”.

I personally also believe that WYSIWYG editors are highly overrated: markdown is significantly better for note-taking and similar small documents, and reports would often be better off with LaTeX or something similar.

Let me guess you’re someone who works in IT and never had a typical “office job” that includes spending 90% of your time writing reports and pushing spreadsheets around. This is why you don’t get it, you’re not the typical user of MS Office and you don’t share the same use cases the OP, the article author and myself share.

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How many times do I have to repeat myself?

And how many times do I have to tell you that Office Online doesn’t have all the features of Office Desktop? It isn’t even close.

When LibreOffice can’t even make sure text ends up on the same place (as on the screenshot) it isn’t good for collaboration with MS Office users.

Why is it so hard for you look at the screenshot and admit that it isn’t as good as you’ve been saying?

using markdown in a comment describing why I am “out of touch” for using markdown.

No, you’re not “out of touch” for using markdown, you’re “out of touch” for implying that markdown can be a solution for the typical MS Office user as you did.

Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages" (z-library.se)

Today we are forced to share some sad news - yesterday many of our domains were seized again. We should highlight that the majority of the seized domains were not mirrors of the Z-Library website. Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world, and their blocking is perplexing. For...

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They can just do it like LibGen and post alternative domains and IPs on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

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Yes www.armbian.com/odroid-c2/ a friend has a couple of those all running Armbian just fine. With all SBCs the trick is to get something that is supported by Armbian.

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

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Wine/Proton can run a huge amount of Windows programs.

Except for everything that people usually want such as the latest MS Office. Or that nice program developed for Windows 98 that works flawlessly under Windows 11 and it totally broken under Wine.

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No, it is why Linux becomes an unviable alternative - you can’t open and edit a document and be sure it won’t get messed up in some way.

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It’s not messed up, though. It’s just set to a different value. If the exact amount of paragraph spacing is important to you, you can either set it before you print, share the file as PDF or use a proper layouting software. This isn’t a Linux issue, you should do the same when sharing a file with someone using MS Office.

You’re missing the point, if you get a document from a MS Office user you can’t simply view it or print it and assume the result will be what the user intended it to be. Same applies in reverse if you make changes to the document. This makes LibreOffice unsuitable and not a real alternative.

Your yardstick for a usable desktop system is “every detail and default setting in all software needs to be exactly the same as on the Windows equivalent”.

No, the problem is that most people on this post want it both ways, want to say that LibreOffice is 100% perfect and can fit 100% of uses cases and be used for collaboration and at the same time say stuff like you said “It’s not messed up, though. It’s just set to a different value.”. Its one thing or the other, not both.

And for what’s worth is shouldn’t be “set to a different value” because it breaks compatibility and LibreOffice say it does the best they can to ensure compatibility with MS Office formats.

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Again, if layout of your end product is important, don’t share .docx files.

I know a LOT of people who’ve been doing this since Office 97 and formatting holds across computers. And to be fair it seems to hold a lot better between older and newer versions of MS Office than with LibeOffice.

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You guys want to have it both ways, first you’ll say that Office online is the ultimate solution for every Linux user that needs to collaborate with MS Office users and now this. lol

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Look at my screenshot above. Do you call that “looked exactly as intended”?

Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?

I’m a long-time Transmission user but I just learned that VPN killswitches are a thing (how did it take me so long!?). I would like to try another client which has this feature in case I forget to launch my VPN client before opening Transmission. Does anybody have any recommendations? Deluge? QBittorrent? Or any others?...

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You don’t need to switch to another client. Apparently Transmission can be set to bind to your VPN IP by editing settings.json:

bind-address-ipv4: String (default = “0.0.0.0”) Where to listen for peer connections. When no valid IPv4 address is provided, Transmission will bind to “0.0.0.0”.

bind-address-ipv6: String (default = “::”) Where to listen for peer connections. When no valid IPv6 address is provided, Transmission will try to bind to your default global IPv6 address. If that didn’t work, then Transmission will bind to “::”.

If you set those with your VPN IP and the VPN is down then Transmission won’t be able to communicate with any peers.

Another option, is to use systemd to restrict Transmission’s networking to your VPN IP. You can make an override of the default transmission daemon unit by using the following command:


<span style="color:#323232;">systemctl edit transmission-daemon.service
</span>

Then type what you need to override:


<span style="color:#323232;">[Service]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">IPAddressDeny=any
</span><span style="color:#323232;">IPAddressAllow=10.0.0.1 # --> your VPN IP here
</span>

Another systemd option, might be to restrict it to a single network interface:


<span style="color:#323232;">[Service]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">RestrictNetworkInterfaces=wg0 # --> your VPN interface
</span>

Save the file and run systemctl daemon-reload followed by systemctl restart transmission-daemon.service and it should be applied.

This will be safer than just doing bind-address-ipv4 and bind-address-ipv6.

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There’s a simpler option for those who like Transmission: lemmy.world/comment/5269089

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Yes it can get better :P lemmy.world/comment/5269089

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True, but enforcing the restriction at the systemd level will be safer. Frankly I like Transmission.

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you’ll need to reconfigure Transmission with the new IP. Sure your method works for a kill switch. But it requires manual intervention every time it gets killed.

It doesn’t. You can specify your VPN provider range instead of a single IP and you won’t need manual intervention.

If you go the systemd route you can do it even better with RestrictNetworkInterfaces:

RestrictNetworkInterfaces= Takes a list of space-separated network interface names. This option restricts the network interfaces that processes of this unit can use.

So I guess this is a better option than doing IP or IP range restrictions - zero manual intervention like you do in qBit. I’m so used to work with IPs instead of interfaces (because of the issues that can cause) that I even forgot about that option.

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If you’re running Transmission on Linux know that I can be set to only use the VPN IP, there’s also another good way to implement a kill switch: lemmy.world/comment/5269089

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Not sure that transmission supports it

Yes transmission does support it, however if you’re running in Linux you can also just restrict it to run on the VPN IP or interface. Read more here: lemmy.world/comment/5269089

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Here: lemmy.world/comment/5269089

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The app will still have to be signed by apple? I will still have to pay Apple to build and sign the app?

That’s the real question that everyone wants answers to and that Apple has been avoiding.

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“I’m North Korean and I am quite happy with not having a democracy in my country.”

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Although we’ll be hosting the repository on GitHub

Why aren’t they using a self-hosted instance of Gitea? This makes no sense move to Github of all places.

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