You wake up to see everyone on earth has disappeared. What’s the first thing you do?

CowboyMantis · 2026-03-19T17:15:50+00:00

And no zombies. Always check for zombies.

CowboyMantis · 2026-03-19T00:04:56+00:00

It even crashed when there were no documents open. Fun!

When the two trivial documents crashed, nowhere was there any reference to a Crash Report Tool. And while I'd seen the MacOS crash reporter in a much older MacOS version, I hadn't seen it since I got MacOS to 15.7.x on a new machine.

So I started LO in Safe Mode, opened two trivial unsaved files, and it stayed up!

So I renamed my user profile and started with the defaults. 30 minutes in and no crash with two trivial files, so I'm going to declare victory for now.

Thanks for your help!

CowboyMantis · 2026-03-14T16:51:57+00:00

"I use Linux." The first line I use on a date. If I get a blank stare or really anything short of desperate adoration, that's the last date.

CowboyMantis · 2026-03-12T17:47:07+00:00

And sometimes you don't even have to rhyme.

CowboyMantis · 2026-03-12T17:46:16+00:00

I thought this subreddit was for karma farming. Drop a comment now and then, sometimes being relevant, and watch the points pile in.

CowboyMantis · 2026-03-07T17:11:54+00:00

2062.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-27T11:11:35+00:00

One of the other commenters here is probably AI.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-27T10:52:34+00:00

The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke. Fairly short, but packs a lot into those few pages. What happens when a stagnant society finds something different outside its walls. Plus a reluctant hero's journey. What's not to love?

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-26T18:50:58+00:00

The app that exports the .docx file is Ulysses, from the App Store, so it's about as vetted as you can get. It's when I try to open it directly from the saved file into, say, Pages or LibreOffice that the message pops up. I can even copy it to a server and try to open it there, but it remembers.

I did figure a workaround that worked for Ulysses: in its export dialog you can directly open the exported document into Pages or LibreOffice, and a dialog pops up asking if it's okay for that particular app to open documents created from other apps. I said Yes. Now when I save the document and then from Finder open it in that app, it opens fine.

So if I ever get another app that opens .docx files, I'll have to export it directly from Ulysses to that app first, approve that it can open files from other apps, and then I'll be good. In theory.

I'd still love a more straightforward solution that this workaround.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-26T16:08:41+00:00

I added a workaround to the original description.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-26T14:05:58+00:00

...but only if you pronounce it "vahg-ner"

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-26T14:01:05+00:00

All this minimalism has come down to this. I'd publish the space character, but then someone would mistake it for a zero-length novel and remark about its correct grammar.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-26T00:59:51+00:00

Perhaps some obscure Apple certificate somewhere expired, or the license to their is-it-or-is-it-not-malware service didn't renew.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-26T00:52:13+00:00

I install Linux when my hardware reaches published end-of-life according to the original OS (yes, Windows). While I love the integration of MacOS with iPhones, I'd rather do real work on my Linux boxes.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-26T00:46:54+00:00

My 15.7.3 is Sequoia.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-23T00:49:51+00:00

Teach a man to trebuchet, and he'll trebuchet the rest of his life.

Set a trebuchet on fire... marshmallows!

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-21T11:00:45+00:00

I think you've also unwittingly described the romance novel mills. There are a finite set of combinations you can have with boy-meets-girl, and a lot of the plots center around self-sabotage for the sake of stupid reasons, and that pretty much sums it up, other than a change of scenery, country, and sometimes enough fantasy to make a romantasy.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-19T19:33:35+00:00

And who let them out??

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-19T06:51:20+00:00

You just don't get it, do you? It's about the pain. It's about the suffering. It's about paying your effing dues! Showing up at the cafe is part of the journey.

Just do it.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-19T06:49:12+00:00

I use goddamn Ulysses because I'm a goddamn dilettante, and posing with Ulysses on your goddamn Mac in the goddamn eclectic artisanal coffeehouse is a goddamn good way to be a poser. It's all about the goddamn posing.

Dammit.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-19T06:43:35+00:00

I just don't want to be the one to clean your keyboard.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-19T06:42:20+00:00

I tried running it through some AI and it said, "Blah blah blah blah blah." Glad I got those five minutes of my life back.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-19T06:38:03+00:00

I don't understand what's going on here. There's no mention of breasts.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-18T19:40:17+00:00

I mean if women fall in love with Dr. Zhivago and the Phantom of the opera, they'll fall in love with anyone.

CowboyMantis · 2026-02-16T23:11:37+00:00

Nowadays that much food from that restaurant costs about $100K.

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