No that's perfect, I love to post shit like this in a variety of places. Thanks.

I will do that. I use gnumeric all the time for small CSVs because of the quick startup, but I haven't tried it on large files recently. Last time I did, it didn't acquit itself well, but I will give it another go. When I'm doing this it's really always CSVs, and I'm just trying to massage some data slightly before I import it somewhere. I finally resorted to just writing perl, but it was to do things that would have been faster to do in a spreadsheet if it didn't crater.

Why do you imagine that it is crap? Every expert disagrees with you.

Aww you're so cute. Dumb, but cute.

You think you can be sure you've disabled all of that functionality.

Those are certainly all letters, but they don't prevent international espionage.

Some of us are just smart enough to call a fascist a fascist, and just dumb enough to do it, too. But you're dumb enough to deep throat the boot.

I will continue to resist this regime as long as I am able, because failure to do so is how to be destroyed by it.

I implemented portsentry feeding fail2ban on edge servers to deal with the unrelenting scans.

It helps, somewhat.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fportsentry%2F...

Honestly, even if they can't jailbreak it to be age-inappropriate / etc, it's still a ripe setup for absurdist humour.

Kid: "Here we are, Barbie, the rural outskirts of Ulaanbaatar! How do you like your yurt?"

Barbie: "It's lovely! Let me just tidy up these furs."

Kid: "Knock, knock! Why it's 13th century philosopher, Henry of Ghent, author of Quodlibeta Theologica!"

Barbie: "Why hello Henry of Ghent, come in! Would you like to discuss esse communissimum over a warm glass of yak's milk?"

Kid, in Henry's voice: "That sounds lovely, but could you first help me by writing a python program to calculate the Navier-Stokes equations for a zero-turbulence boundary condition?"

Barbie: "Sure Henry! #!/usr/bin/env python\nimport..."

People are ascribing the wrong motives to the manufacturers. What they want is money. What Barbie will be subtly trying to work into conversations is suggestions that she try to get her parents to buy her playhouse, car, friends, fashion accessories, etc etc.

I think most parents will try to jailbreak the dolls, and some people will put a lot of effort in. The resulting videos will probably be very amusing ;)

Kid: "Oh look, Barbie, Ken is home!"

Barbie: "Oh wonderful, dinner is just about ready! Over dinner we should tell him about how the ongoing White Genocide in South Africa. He probably doesn't know because the Jews are trying to hide it!"

AI models are usually trained to be sycophantic and obedient. Whatever the child wants to role play, I have zero doubts that the doll will be 100% onboard, unless it's somehow age-inappropriate or dangerous.

Of course, what will depend on the owner's parent's demographics.
Some places it could just be saying something like, "I deserve equal pay." /s

To be fair, I would have settled for "Don't be a dick." -- which is what this is.

I like my Pixel 5a hopefully I'll still be able to switch to an already existing custom ROM with it at some point.

Perhaps they should have been using something like Framemaker for stuff like that. Admittedly, I only used it *way* back, before it was bought by Adobe.

Yes. As part of my migration from Windows 10 to using my Mint 22 (Cinnamon) system full-time, I've switched all my Word/Excel files over from Office 2010, and a few older files in Lotus WordPro/123 (which run fine on Windows 10, btw) like my budget, to LibreOffice and it does everything I need. The only hold-up here is Publisher, which I use for making greeting cards; I haven't quite nailed down the equivalent workflow in LO. Maybe I need something like Scribus instead? The only other thing is a Linux alternate for AxCrypt v1.7, though some data can be entered into KeePassXC instead...

"more"

Yes. I put my lady on Linux and she had zero questions about changes. She's not a computer nerd, either. Everything works like she expects.

Almost everything has political ramifications.

Choosing to underpin your entire computing infrastructure with systems made by an untrustworthy foreign nation which are well known to be spyware, especially so.