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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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The last time I tried to use LibreOffice, I made three hours worth of comments on a Word document.

As soon as I saved the document, they all vanished.

Then the developers mocked me for complaining.

Now I just use real MS Office in a snapshotted virtual machine, because it works every time and loads just as fast.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the tried and true headline method of "event 2 happened after event 1", implying a causal effect between the two, despite no evidence of such effect existing. Technically the headline is correct, in the same way that "Canada Tariffs $20b in US Goods After Amazon Plane Crash" is also correct.

"it's our most powerful X ever" - every Apple event ever

God, I'm hoping that this phraseology changes with the new CEO, I am so tired of that overused statement haha.

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

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Can you control it agentically? If so it’s has all the ai features I would want. I typically don’t care for built in ai features.

Presumably. The headless CLI part of libreoffice is even included in Codex and Claude Code.

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

#117

Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.

Conversely, a no-AI ethos is one that will very likely need to be walked back at some point in the future for tech products. AI isn't going anywhere, so finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy. For now while it's new and scary and there's a lack of regulation and governance and ethical considerations - I can see why an anti-AI stance is popular, but it's…

Nobody should be "finding ways to use" any technology. We should be solving problems first and foremost.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm planning to make a killing when somebody unretires me to fix all the issues.. Or maybe not, I hope my retirement accounts are so large I can laugh at their "piddly $500/hr offer".

just make sure you get paid in cash before it rolls over.

Banks are known for running mainframes which handle dates differently and will not be rolling over. The ones that use unix are likely to 64 bit systems that won't roll over.

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

#119

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

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

#120

Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.

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.
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