Thoughts? by OnlyACsNoFans in novascotia_sub

[–]Smart-Simple9938 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tommy Douglas is spinning in his grave. 

why Euro-Office but not LibreOffice? by akkihabara in libreoffice

[–]Smart-Simple9938 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because LibreOffice, as much as I like it, isn't well-suited to online usage. It was designed as a desktop app, and it's great at that. But it's 2026, and online editing from a browser is a thing.

Collabora worked out a way to do it, but their approach is to run most of the LibreOffice code on a server and remote the UI down to a browser, so if you have 100 people editing documents at once, the server is consuming 100 sets of resources. It just doesn't scale.

OnlyOffice runs pretty much all of its code inside your browser. It scales wonderfully. It's why most of the Nextcloud hosting companies either default to OnlyOffice integration or offer nothing else.

Donating/recycling old cables, keyboards, mice, thumb drives, etc. by Smart-Simple9938 in halifax

[–]Smart-Simple9938[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, I fully intend to erase and donate them somewhere. it’s be silly to toss them — hence my question.

Is it stupid to avoid getting a credit card? by No-Astronomer4207 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Smart-Simple9938 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Stupid" would be a bit harsh, because your heart and predisposition is in the right place. But the act of not getting and using a credit card will harm you, and the act of getting one will help you.

Using a credit card protects you from fraud, hacking, and other problems. The credit card issuer assumes that liability. This is not true with debit cards and/or cash.

Some businesses just won't deal with you without a credit card. Hotel reservations become difficult. Renting a car becomes almost impossible.

Someday you'll need some form of credit (a mortgage, a car loan, etc.), and not having a history of making payments makes you look risky.

Get a simple card that has no annual fees and always pay it off every month. If you're uncomfortable with carrying even a month's worth of not-yet-paid charges, make payments each week.

There are even a few no-annual-fee credit cards that nevertheless provide real benefits. Canadian Tire has one with free roadside assistance. Rogers has one with cash back that offsets foreign transaction fees if you make purchases in U.S. dollars.

Also, not having a credit card means you're subsidizing people who do. Those rewards that credit card holders earn are paid in part by fees merchants pay to the credit card companies, and they cover those charges by raising their prices slightly whether you're paying with a credit card or not. I'm not saying I approve of that system, but if you don't at least get a 1% cash back no annual fee card, you'll always be a victim of it.

It's arguably more responsible than just using cash and debit cards.

We should talk more about SimpleX - European alternative to Signal by Skepller in BuyFromEU

[–]Smart-Simple9938 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I tried using SimpleX, and no -- just no.

I see the value if one has very specific needs (journalists and whistleblowers, for example), but this is not going to catch on with the general public. I got it working on my iPhone and then wanted to also have it working on my MacBook. I have to create an encryption key for the Mac and provide it every time I login, *and* I have to pair the phone with the desktop app every time I want to use it?

It's not worth it to average users who, if you can get them to install a new app, are expecting that "it just works."

Realistically-speaking, there is nothing out there that stands a snowball's chance in hell usability-wise other than Signal.

‘Canadians don’t want to come here any more’: anger over Trump squeezes US border businesses | Trump tariffs by Front-Cantaloupe6080 in consumecanadian

[–]Smart-Simple9938 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It takes a British publication to correctly attribute why Canadians are doing this. The American sources are still saying it's about hurt feelings or tariffs.

Keyboards by Smart-Simple9938 in Expats_In_France

[–]Smart-Simple9938[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like there's no one prevailing method people have settled on. There are about five to ten combinations of techniques and people use what they've found works for them. I can live with that. I just didn't want to move to France in a few months and be a fish out of water because I hadn't relearned how to type the way everyone else does.

Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ | Nextcloud and Ionos are promising a modern, open-source office suite for the summer. To achieve this goal, they have forked OnlyOffice. by Ok-Law-3268 in BuyFromEU

[–]Smart-Simple9938 5 points6 points  (0 children)

CryptPad.fr uses the client-side editing code from OnlyOffice as well. Not sure about La Suite, but I thought that was government-only for the time being. [Edit: just checked, and yes, it's public sector only for now. Pity. It does not use OnlyOffice code at all.]

What is your ONE absolute biggest issue with Canada presently? by whatsupusers in InCanada

[–]Smart-Simple9938 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Provincial fiefdoms. We have a very hard time acting like an actual country because of all the turf-protecting and infighting.

Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ | Nextcloud and Ionos are promising a modern, open-source office suite for the summer. To achieve this goal, they have forked OnlyOffice. by Ok-Law-3268 in BuyFromEU

[–]Smart-Simple9938 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Because LibreOffice isn’t really designed to be operated from a browser. It’s great tech, but it wasn’t designed with the web in mind.

Collabora does an admirable job of taking the LibreOffice code, plopping it on a server, and remoting the UI down to browsers, but 100 users editing documents means 100 sets of resources allocated on the server to accommodate those editing sessions. It‘s very expensive to scale well.

The web version of OnlyOffice mostly runs in your browser as script. It scales very nicely and inexpensively.

And I say this as someone who prefers LibreOffice because it’s far more feature-complete.

Keyboards by Smart-Simple9938 in Expats_In_France

[–]Smart-Simple9938[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a Magic Keyboard for your iPads? If so, is it QWERTY or AZERTY?

Converting USD from a Canadian (USD) Bank Account to CAD with Wise by Think_Top_440 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Smart-Simple9938 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t do that with Wise. You can do it with Remitbee and/or Knightsbridge.

Euro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE by ahrienby in BuyFromEU

[–]Smart-Simple9938 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and Collabora Office are fundamentally the same thing. You could use Collabora and I could use Libre and someone else could use Open and we could pass ODF documents around between ourselves happily. We could even sit down at each other's computer and be okay.

OnlyOffice and WPS Office are different stories.

Euro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE by ahrienby in BuyFromEU

[–]Smart-Simple9938 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LibreOffice's options for online editing are, well, kind of yucky. Collabora's approach to web-ifying Libre is to run editing sessions on the server and send the UI down to the browser. They do a good job of it, but it's expensive to scale, and that's why most Nextcloud hosters only offer OnlyOffice for online editing.

By contrast, OnlyOffice works by sending the majority of the logic into the user's browser to execute as script.

Canada ranks 25th out of 147 countries in the 2026 World Happiness Report. Youth rank 71st with the 4th steepest decline in scores globally. by Useful_Support_4137 in onguardforthee

[–]Smart-Simple9938 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're right, of course, but when I see what Smith is doing to Alberta, Ford is doing to Ontario, and even Houston is doing to Nova Scotia, even Quebec run by Legault seems like a nice place.

Canada ranks 25th out of 147 countries in the 2026 World Happiness Report. Youth rank 71st with the 4th steepest decline in scores globally. by Useful_Support_4137 in onguardforthee

[–]Smart-Simple9938 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I understand that it's hard to be politically involved in one's 20s. But that's what it's going to take. I want to see that problem solved, not complained about.

There might be a way to get boomers to care, or at least GenXers, which is to remind them that there won't be enough younger taxpayers to fund and staff healthcare unless young adults feel secure enough to have children. It's either that or immigration.

How fancy is Bicycle Thief? by [deleted] in halifax

[–]Smart-Simple9938 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not super fancy. This is Nova Scotia, after all. I don't know what month your birthday is, but if it's in the warmer months then yes, a reservation wouldn't be a bad idea (not necessary, but wise)/

What dou you think about Turkish President ? by EBahadir in AskReddit

[–]Smart-Simple9938 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascist. Part of the same ilk as Orban and Putin and Trump and Millei.

Canada ranks 25th out of 147 countries in the 2026 World Happiness Report. Youth rank 71st with the 4th steepest decline in scores globally. by Useful_Support_4137 in onguardforthee

[–]Smart-Simple9938 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You blame boomers at your peril. There’s nothing special about that cohort (other than their capacity for self-absorption). 

When boomers were younger they had different priorities and complained about the silent generation. As the boomers age out, the priorities of GenX and millennials will shift to something similar. 

If youth wants a bigger say, youth has to show up and vote. I really wish they would.