Apparently it looks identical to MS Office, so it isn’t “better” than MS Office or LibreOffice in a functional sense (arguably less so since it’s probably very buggy code)

I wouldn’t say it’s people (normal people would be using MS Office or LibreOffice most likely) excited that it’s LLM generated, though some AI Bros probably are, I imagine some outlets are promoting this to sell whatever the new model is these days. And when there is a lot of news around a topic, it’s covered by more and more people (something about all press is good press here)

LibreOffice is an awesome piece of kit! On setup, they let you select the “tabbed” UI if you prefer something closer to MS office.

Collabora Office is another one that seems neat, have not used it before though. OnlyOffice has weird Russian ties and GPL incompatible licensing shenanigans, I would avoid them for the most part. WPS Office has the best compatibility with MS Office files on Linux I think, but it’s closed-source so not great either. There’s always running a VM / dual booting if you must use MS Office.

Honestly, MS office files have worked fine on LibreOffice, the only big issue I’ve found is that translucent images are a little broken when going from Impress to PowerPoint (all images share the same opacity for some reason?)

When you go to create a post, there are options for text, image, etc., as well as communities. Bit confusing that it’s in the same menu, but that’s how you do it.

Wait nope, that isn’t how you do it. This is just the Interstellar app being a bit weird!

I have used GameNative and it works okay, but I don’t have a Snapdragon device so it doesn’t have the best results. I know there are lots of videos on Droid Deck on Android handhelds with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and indie titles run fine for the most part. Have not tried it myself though, but it seems neat and will only improve from now!

Nice, a webUSB installer is very cool! The new photo editing app looks nest too…

So France and Germany are relaxing the commitment from 90% to 80% emissions by 2035 due to influence from automakers, that’s not great at all.

The article also mentions that this is during a time where oil is being affected by the wars going on right now (they highlight the Russian invasion of Ukraine), making this all the more silly. It ends with how easing the commitments that European automakers need to make will make Chinese EV dominance continue to skyrocket, even despite tariffs.

I’m all for more EVs (European or otherwise), but I’d personally rather see European automakers being pushed to meet the commitments towards reducing emissions. More competition is always better, and having one country to depend on for EVs is not great.

Scratch that, maybe don’t use Proton Pass. Just did some more searching, their CEO has donated millions of dollars to the Republican party. They also sponsored some alt-right French influencer (from my quick searching, a lot of racism, conspiracy, Holocaust denial, homophobia, transphobia, that sort). Yikes!

My bad for not looking more into this!

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Secrets is another decent KeePass client and works well with Gnome and other desktops that work well with libadwaita. It doesn’t have browser integration though, so it’s a non-starter for me.

From reading the thread, it looks like they are dodging the question of what features will be restricted to the commercial license versions (“case-by-case basis” apparently). They keep repeating “no change to people using the app currently”, “no change to self-hosting right now”, etc., but it doesn’t inspire confidence.

I would recommend to read the thread and ask questions there if you have any, but I would definitely have a backup plan ready.

The KeePass ecosystem is awesome and it’s what I use, it’s local-first and you can use Syncthing to have passwords across many devices. KeePassXC for desktop (+ browser extension if you need it), KeePassDX on Android (w/ Syncthing-fork), and if you use iOS, you have KeePassium and Strongbox (w/ Synctrain). The iOS apps are more limited, blame Apple for their restrictive ecosystem and high entry fee.

I actually went to a competition where you got 0 marks for an incorrect answer (so no negative marking), BUT you got 0.25 marks for leaving the question blank, so you had to be strategic on whether you guess (e.g. if you’re confident it’s 50:50) or not answer. I imagine the boundaries for the awards are adjusted to account the 25% being the “baseline”

The bacteria don’t produce calories out of thin air, even high school physics will teach you that energy needs to be conserved!

I didn’t do biology, but from my understanding, energy (mostly) comes from the food you eat, and any excess is stored as fat. Obesity occurs when you have too much of that excess where it is a health risk, and differs depending on your metabolism and that sort (which things like gut bacteria can change because of weird biology shenanigans, don’t ask me, I’m a physicist).

But if there is no food, then you don’t intake any energy. Famine is defined as the widespread lack of food (by natural or artificial causes, unfortunately it’s often the latter), and when you don’t have food, you don’t tend to have high obesity rates.

Experimenting with stuff I already have. Using an old laptop with a cracked screen as a Nextcloud + other bits server, switching to a tiling WM (Niri + Noctalia) on my personal laptop (it has been awesome so far!), setting up emulation stuff on my phone, etc.

Super exciting :D Even if this isn’t actually a planet and it’s some other thing, it’s still new phenomenon being learnt about the Solar System!

The “planet” definition has been challenged again, as we have recently discovered a brown dwarf orbiting a star, itself with a Jupiter-like “exomoon” / “exosatellite” that is closer to the gas giants than the moons of the Solar System. This is the first “exomoon”/“exosatellite” discovered (because it’s big!), but it has sparked yet another debate over what a planet or moon is.

If you didn’t know, brown dwarfs are “failed stars” that have enough energy to fuse hydrogen into deuterium, but not enough to produce helium. Again, should this be considered an exoplanet as it orbits a star? Still being debated

Pluto will always be interesting to scientists, planet or not. Planet status isn’t a demotion of Pluto, it’s more to clean up the fuzzy lines. The category of asteroids was created because too many were being classified as planets, and now we know there are THOUSANDS of asteroids. Even though they are no longer planets, asteroids are still super interesting for astronomers (incl. Ceres, the largest asteroid)!

Likewise goes for Pluto, it might have a subsurface ocean, and it’s a bit weird that it’s in a binary system with its “moon”, Charon

That’s the best suggestion! Probably not a good idea to use the power of randomness for any actual tests, otherwise it’s random :D

Retro games are awesome! Relatively affordable and you don’t need expensive hardware to play them (whether you’re playing natively or emulated!), and arguably more fun than modern titles since there aren’t any forced online shenanigans

I believe those are usually done by modifying an existing ROM, but there are tools to make games from scratch too I think, at least for GBA. It’s pretty neat! The cartridges do have size limits, so if your game / ROM hack is particularly large it might not be ideal, but it’s cool that you can play modern-ish games on an OG GBA (most people emulate nowadays, but lots of people still have original hardware!)

Hopefully this move will help Hungary and Ukraine work on their issues together!