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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by anthonypasq »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #181
anthonypasq wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an app with several AI features that I will not mentioning use AI at all because its completely irrelevant and the users will hate it for no reason.

So you recognize that your users will dislike these features. And your solution is to try to hide it, rather than removing the features you know your users won't like? You do you, but that doesn't seem like good product design to me.

im using it for mundane text processing. categorizing and merging recipe ingredients for shopping lists. the users like the feature, unless i tell them its AI. i dont feel any ethical need to disclose that. its just software

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Post by JohnTHaller »

majorchord wrote: post #119
dreamcompiler wrote: post #93

Offtopic blogging tip: Americans will read dates like "8/9/2026" as "August 9, 2026." I'm pretty sure the author is using the (more sensible) convention of day/month/year but expressing dates as e.g. "08-Sep-2026" removes the ambiguity.

Highly disagree that either is more sensible than the other, especially given how each culture actually uses dates in their speech. Or we could follow Japan and just use ISO 8601 directly and write 2026-08-09. https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/BzKdTMyDkDyU.png

I use this for everything except where I write the month out or use an abbreviation. Much easier.

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Post by reaperducer »

smokel wrote: post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless.

Like how Hollywood is constantly saying each week's ticket sales are record-breaking, because they don't factor for inflation or population growth.

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Post by reaperducer »

onraglanroad wrote: post #200
hbn wrote: post #166

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LibreOffice breaks download records after Trump renames Lake Ontario to Lake America

Did that actually happen as something that appears on maps or did it just get ignored as senile rambling?

Did that actually happen as something that appears on maps or did it just get ignored as senile rambling?

Both Google Maps and Apple Maps changed it for users in the United States.

MapQuest publicly refused, causing literally dozens of people to ask, "MapQuest is still a thing?"

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Post by arwineap »

onraglanroad wrote: post #200
hbn wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LibreOffice breaks download records after Trump renames Lake Ontario to Lake America

Did that actually happen as something that appears on maps or did it just get ignored as senile rambling?

It actually happened. The US GNIS system was updated, and thus the apple maps and google maps have updated their maps to reflect

Other map providers will have to make a decision, but these sorts of things have historically been fraught with politics, I think most maps will go with whatever the official source they use has declared

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Post by hoooooooooome »

JaumeGreen wrote: post #133
MoonWalk wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But still nice to hear. Really timely, too, since my 83-year-old mom called me the other day to help her E-mail a document she prepared in LibreOffice. I installed it on her (seldom-used) computer years ago. So I talked her through E-mailing it with Thunderbird. And I say "talked," because the jagoffs at Microsoft REMOVED Remote Assistance from every version of Windows used by people who are likely to need it. And MS…

I use Google remote desktop with my mother. It's not perfect but it's adequate.

To continue further down the IT family support software, I use DWService because it seems like it's almost impossible for my sweet friends and relatives to accidentally break it. It's like a cockroach once it's in there and i've been very thankful for that

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Post by secretsatan »

I switched to LibreOffice just recently, but only because i’d been happy with OpenOffice for years and only recently decided to see if there was an update and found out it had been discontinued in 2011.

It was still working fine for me tbh, but i thought better to update to something newer.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by progval »

smokel wrote: post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

A graph to confirm it: https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads#week,version
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