That’s what I would have said till I tried using a TUI epub reader. The jankiness of line-level scrolling (rather than pixel-level like in a GUI app) is all but a deal breaker.

I was then most surprised to discover that terminal emulators with this amazing cutting-edge technology (smooth scrolling) do not even exist.

Completely unreadable without the paragraph breaks! But probably a great argument.

Seconded. Been a user for years without a single problem.

PS: There’s also Proton and Posteo, they’re all fine. The important bit is to pay for it. This is a critical hub for your personal data. It’s completely aberrant that people have allowed themselves to be trained to accept a free service in exchange for spying. A dollar or two a month is not prohibitive for anyone. We should all be paying for this service.

Probably not because it would need to be an off-the-peg solution with support included for my bosses to even begin to consider it. But I have heard of Collabora and I know it’s decent.

More in the running would be a cloud solution from the amazing Framasoft, including Framapad

None of this is to disparage LibreOffice, which apparently offers value to many people and that’s great.

That does make sense. Thanks.

Interesting insight, thanks.

Honest question. In the era of collaborative document editing on browser-based platforms, who is using this software and what are they using it for? I work with documents for my job and it’s been literally decades since I used a local standalone word processor.

To distrohope! Way to inadvertently coin a useful word.

It’s fine. Not a fan of the AI garbage generator at the top. For obscure queries Big G still returns the best results and this will not change any time soon.

Something else that won’t change: If you’re not paying for a service, then that service will be trying to monetize you in some other way and will therefore have an incentive to spy on you.

I just copy paste commands from Arch wiki and it just magically works without me knowing anything about it.

Join the club.

I am not a big fan of snap, and I would prefer a more logical and unified package management system

That’s exactly where Snap is going!

Seriously tho, Ubuntu is fine. The LTS versions are always extremely solid. Your objections sound more theoretical than practical and you also seem to be running quite advanced hardware and software. The least risky strategy would be stay where you are.

The options are surprisingly poor.

Personally, I rolled my own TUI script. It uses pdftk to explode and merge, and gs (Ghostscript) to optimize. To paste PNGs of my signature (absurd, but here we are) I use xournal, which looks a bit rough but gets the job done.

Exactly. OP should start by seeing what’s possible in Firefox.

Quick primer. This is not the Parliament. This is the Council, the intergovernmental branch of the EU. Specifically, a meeting of national justice ministers. They sometimes vote but their real objective is to find consensus, since the EU is not a federation and it’s politically hard to pass anything against the wishes of national governments. If they can agree, then it goes to the Parliament, which definitely does vote and is obviously a bit more open to influence from ordinary voters.

From the agenda for tomorrow:

Ministers will also exchange views on the concluding report of the high-level group on access to data for effective law enforcement. At this year’s June meeting of home affairs ministers the Council welcomed the group’s 42 recommendations on access to data. At the upcoming meeting ministers will discuss the way forward now that the group has presented its concluding report.

Correct. This is the reason not to use Revolut.

Choose Wise instead.

Of course you can. You said you live in Europe.

Unless you live in Russia or the Vatican, that means your country has signed the European Convention on Human Rights, of which article 8 commits it to respecting your privacy.

So, sure, you’re not going to bother suing. It’s not that important to you. But let’s go easy on the helplessness of “In my country you can’t do that”. Yes. You can do it.

OK, but that incident was well over a decade ago. I agree it was bad but to call it spyware or “malicious” is just spin. If you read the quotations from the time, it becomes clear they really thought users would love it. After all, it’s the sort of thing Windows exiles were probably expecting. So: bad judgement, mainly. They could have just put the feature behind an opt-in modal and avoided the whole furore.

They’re a private company trying to tune their business model in a delicate area under the watchful eye of privacy hawks like yourself. For the price of an occasional lapse like this, we get a rock-solid OS with literal salaried employees to maintain it and keep it secure. To me it seems like a decent trade-off.

No, adding something useful to the discussion should get you a vote. The fact that other idiots agree with you does not magically make your contribution thoughtful, or insightful, or productive in any other way.

Yes, it’s very different from the USA. Campaign spending is tightly limited. In most EU countries, political parties get the majority of their funding from the state, paid on the basis of past election results.

With this can-do attitude, we’re really gonna get things changing!