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[–] tool@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Seriously, it feels like 1999 internet. And I'm loving it!

56K modem handshake sound intensifies

[–] tool@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Try submitting a pull request for something in one of the core repos.

They behave as if every line of code in your commit is a sentence proclaiming "Why yes, your wife is a whore, your dog doesn't love you, AND your baby is ugly."

I'm not kidding, there's no hyperbole in that statement. Go read some of their declined pull requests threads for some entertainment.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Even those who try to contribute to the project get eventually feeling pushed out.

Submitting a pull request to one of their repos on Github was really an experience, and I can tell you that I will never submit another one to the Lemmy project while they're still the lead devs based on that experience.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It would be better to our them on blast on social media since that sometimes gets the companies attention to try and fix PR.

Works almost every time. I had a ticket with a vendor open at work for just about 3 months, and then only replies I'd gotten on the ticket was the "We've received your support request which we'll promptly ignore!" autoresponse upon opening, and then another auto-response a month later saying the ticket was being assigned to another department. I'd replied to the ticket ~20 times asking for updates in that time.

I finally got sick of essentially yelling into an empty room and called out the company, their marketing team, their support team, and their CEO on Twitter, making sure to @ each one of them in the message. I got a reply from their CEO and an actual human responded to the ticket less than an hour later.

It's shitty and a last resort, but it's generally very effective.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I have a Hisense and had a similar experience. I was watching something fullscreen on an HDMI input, and then it suddenly switched inputs and showed a fullscreen firmware update prompt. I had no choice available other than to agree to update the firmware, no cancel button, couldn't change inputs, nothing, the only choice was to update the firmware. So I unplugged the TV.

About 10 seconds after I powered it back on, the exact same update prompt happened, still with no choice to decline it. I pulled power and booted it back up one more time just to be sure, met with the update prompt again.

This made me very angry.

The next time I powered it on, I had a packet capture running to see where it was phoning home. I created a firewall rule blocking all the hostnames it tried to connect to at startup, pulled the plug, and then booted it back up. No more update prompt, and it hasn't happened again. Good thing they don't download and pre-stage the new firmware, I guess.

Let me know if you want the hostnames and I'll PM them to you.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Eh, it depends. Other low-level things (systemd, glibc, etc) need a reboot too.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's likely because they use it as the primary/unique identifier for the account, which is just dumb. It's like they've never heard of a UUID/GUID before.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They really don't, though. Inclusion/exclusion operators work most of the time, but it'll still return results with explicitly-excluded keywords. It also fucks up results by returning entries with similar words to your query, even when you double-quote a part of the search term. Advanced queries that use booleans and logical AND/OR don't work at all anymore, that functionality has been completely removed. It returns what it thinks you want, not what you actually want, even when explicitly crafting a query to be as specific as possible.

I use Kagi for search now and it's 1000x better, especially when researching technical issues; it's like when Google actually respected your search terms and query as a whole.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

It does. It's fine as a replacement for Word, but no one has an answer for Excel. LibreOffice Calc is fine for a basic spreadsheet, but Excel is in a completely different universe than Calc with anything beyond that.

To be fair though, Excel is in a completely different universe than literally any other competing product.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The fact that Firefox isn’t listed as a browser alternative but Brave is throws any credibility that this article might have straight into the garbage.

Suggesting Brave anything throws its credibility into the shitter, much less multiple times in multiple categories.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm considering switching everything to Debian eventually, but there's a couple dedicated repos that make using Fedora on my laptop much easier for now.

I'd recommend against that. Debian is fantastic for a server, but I think it leaves a lot to be desired as a workstation OS as compared to Fedora.

You can get it there/make it that way, but Fedora is just better from a user experience/convenience perspective out of the box.

[–] tool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and pushed the staff turnover rate in my department to 95%. They ended up having to outsource the function to an overseas firm.

Sounds like their reason behind implementing the RTO plan was successful then.

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