I just tried to help a friend and found this - wait what, Save As a PDF in MS Office on your local computer, it ... funnels your local document through their cloud service? 🤯
When I was in Indiana last week, I found a floppy disk in my dad's desk and was able to recover the files from them and put them on a USB drive. They were documents and forms he had created back in 1994 with Word Perfect that triggered a number of memories for him. Luckily, I could read the floppy disk from #Fedora and #LibreOffice could read/convert the files.
Obligatory yearly toot about #FOSS so I can stay on #Fosstodon 🎉
I saw the other day that German state Schleswig-Holstein is going to switch to fully #FOSS. Which is great and hope it works out for them.
Having set up a fully (F)OSS (desktops, apps, servers, etc) IT env for a large non-profit, might I suggest proper enterprise support instead of a lone coffee-addicted sysadmin who tries to keep systems together with hopes, prayers and duct tape? 🥲
Also I really really hope that most of the compatibility issues with #LibreOffice and M$ Office have been resolved by now. Documents and Powerpoints were frequently corrupted, Excel macros didn't work. That was the dagger that made users revolt.
@Gina I think if you use both #LibreOffice and #onlyoffice you can cover basically kinds of documents. It's such a shame that OnlyOffice has telemetry/tracking baked in though :/
So, I don't really do online subscriptions. But since @bitwarden is FOSS and has a real cheap pro account option, I pay for that, even though I never use the pro features.
I try to donate a bit to other FOSS stuff too, but not nearly as regularly, even though I know it's possible to set up auto donations.
I was wondering, could other FOSS stuff use this same model, would it be easier to give regularly if it was framed as an account or membership or something?
Like, would you be more likely to sign up for a "pro account" or a membership or something like that for for example #Gnome, #LibreOffice, #Firefox, #Gimp, #Inkscape, or any other FOSS tool you use regularly, than you are likely to set up an automatic recurring donation – even if the status didn't actually come with any extra features or perks of any kind, other than being a member and supporting something you love?
Schleswig-Holstein packt es an und schlägt einen sinnvollen Weg in die Zukunft ein. "Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf einen digital souveränen IT-Arbeitsplatz in der Landesverwaltung". Das bedeutet unter anderem:
Umstieg von Microsoft Office auf LibreOffice
Umstieg des Betriebssystems von Microsoft Windows auf Linux