"How is it a good thing to refuse to provide our warfighters with the tools that they need?"

Perhaps you should consider that this is a loaded question. I don't think HN needs this sort of Argumentum ad Passiones.

I am currently trying to wrangle this UI. It is called VCL and it was initially created in the early 1990s.

If you want to see my efforts, I have a number of branches on github:

Phase 5 can be located here:

https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr...

Check the source here:

https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr...

in particular keep an eye on:

https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr...

What’s the bet this was Divers Alert Network (DAN) that did this. There aren’t a huge number of insurance companies who insure diving students in Malta.

I'd be impressed if you would process my donation. Your platform says it can't right now.

We can't see any failed donations around this time, and we've had many successful ones, so we'd love to get more info from you to debug if you're willing. My email is in my profile. Thanks so much for the help!

Update: we just deployed a fix for this, thanks for reporting! (We recently enabled Cloudflare caching which exposed a pre-existing CSRF issue, now fixed)

So... people actually converse and have civil debates on social media? I wouldn't know, I'm not on Facebook.

No, he's talking about ReactOS.

All of that is true. Collabora has put a lot of time and money into LibreOffice.

That is not going to happen with LibreOffice.

Downvote me all you like, this won’t happen.

Well, if a rootkit gets installed later, attention might be handy? Or am I missing something?

It comes rootkitted from the factory, and if you remove the rootkit, the device stops working.

Yes, but it took some time before the suck became so bad too many people started to notice, and those people weren’t tech people.

Most people had never even heard of Linux. It has taken a lot of very bad things on Windows for it to get to this point. It’s classic frog in a slowly heating up pot territory.

>Most people had never even heard of Linux.

My experience is that people fear linux, rather than not knowing. I am the lonely Linux user since c. 2005, and people see half my screen is always a console, the other half a browser. So they fear linux is for console wizards, not for regular users. Nothing will convince them otherwise, even when they are 100% of the time using online webapps. I have some coworkers using browser + VS code + WSL2 all the time, but they don't switch because they fear the console-to-config-everything instead of Control Panel.

I don't know, man. In my experience, people make no difference between "windows" and "the pc". I think the vast majority of "regular people" have no idea there are alternatives to "windows", other than "macs".

So much of it is a problem of execution. If people could use Linux without ever having to know what a terminal is (much like the average Windows user doesn't know what PowerShell is), then it would actually be quite successful. It has gotten better over the past decade, but it still suffers from endless paper cuts and the odd issue that requires a shell session to fix. I will say that Valve's SteamOS has come the closest to avoiding this trap. You can use a deck without ever having to touch a CLI.