I'd more say:

"Don't Be Evil" - Google 30 years ago

"Make Money" - Google now.

It's not evil for evil's sake, it's evil for money's sake. If they could make more money by not being evil they would.

Do you genuinely believe the hit to hardware sales will be more than a rounding error?

They sell 10M a year (as of 2023, can't find an exact number for 2024). Do you think they sell 100k that would not buy it due to no AOSP support? I would guess 10k would be a stretch.

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.

When are advertisers going to learn that too many ads run people away from their product. That has been a great deal of technical market research that proves that. The bottom line after increases in ad spend also proves it. I guess the people buying ads haven't collectively figured out that the only people who are falling for the ad agency's BS is the ad buyers, not the end customers. There is plenty of data showing only 2 commercials in a typical sitcom work which is the 1st one past the end and the one before it starts. The rest of the commercials in a sitcom decrease brand value.

The Aussie ABC has a show called Gruen which is about ads and covers the technical and psychological details behind advertising while making fun of bad ads. The show was named after the well studied psychological technique of confusing customers with shop layout.

"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.

Appeal to popularity is a logical fallacy

I'm on Linux. So, nope.

You mean spend billions to save millions?

I'm not faithful to any software, and I use LO for almost everything. But sometimes I try to load a big CSV into Calc for massaging and it crashes. Then I load the same file into Excel and it's fine, and not even slow. They clearly need to do fundamental work on Calc. Writer is already superior to Word in this regard, so this is not a blanket complaint about LO.

Because Texas. Are you new?

It will confidently spit out functions that don't exist and give you a detailed explanation of how they supposedly work. Anyone who trusts it is mentally deficient. No shortage there, though.