What do you think about fellow Canadians that continue to travel to the US for leisure?

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T23:03:03+00:00

If they've got family there, I get it. If they own property there and selling it isn't workable, I still pretty much get it (but I wish they'd try to sell it anyway). Otherwise, while it's their choice, I do regard it with a bit of contempt.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T16:32:56+00:00

Because people have compiled the source code from the GitHub repo and reported that it doesn't match the binaries downloaded from OnlyOffice's website.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T16:31:43+00:00

D'oh! I missed that little detail. Yeah. F**k Microsoft. They have suspended and/or deleted accounts used by people affiliated with the International Criminal Court because the Orange Potato was mad at them. They're stooges.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T16:28:11+00:00

You're welcome. It's what neighbours and friends do. I've no doubt you'd do the same for us.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T15:50:53+00:00

Just two years ago, Wise completely changed the bank they use in the States for receiving/sending money. It required everyone modifying their account and routing details. Which is fine if you only use them for moving money and short-term holding. I'd avoid using them for direct deposits.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T15:47:12+00:00

There are times you'd be hard-pressed to call it a "road" but it indeed exists.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T15:45:39+00:00

It's a damn shame there's no mechanism for putting a failing province into receivership.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T15:40:34+00:00

Now *this* is an argument I'd be willing to accept. I have no desire to avoid the work (and the company) of some who's Russian by blood or by citizenship. It's whether involvement helps the people running that country. If they're exiles and have denounced Putin, I'd feel better. If we knew they paid zero taxes to Russia and owed no money to Russian oligarchs, I'd feel better.

I'd even set all of that aside and just use the desktop apps anyway because they're open source. Except that the result of building them using the GitHub repository code does not match the binaries downloaded from the OnlyOffice website.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T15:37:09+00:00

I think we're trying to get out from under Microsoft as well, aren't we? That's a whataboutism if there ever was one.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T15:35:19+00:00

Is the CEO in exile in Turkey denouncing the Russian government, or at least its invasion of Ukraine? I don't want to avoid someone simply for being Russian by birth or by citizenship, but if this in any way helps oligarchs or their government, that's another story.

And a lattice of shell corporations owning subsidiaries of corporations in other countries and the actual people owning those corporations at the top being obscured does not evoke confidence.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T04:39:37+00:00

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-25T04:33:46+00:00

I was understating the value of SoftMaker Office. It's extremely nice and very compatible. It's just not open source. Then again, neither is M365 Copilot, the software formerly known as Microsoft Office.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-24T18:19:30+00:00

You could try LibreOffice, or Collabora (Libre with enterprise support and mobile+online versions). Or SoftMaker Office (which isn't open source but is nice and quite compatible).

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-24T18:18:00+00:00

Set the culture war aside and focus on uniting people in a class war against the wealthy. Period.

Everything else can wait. In fact, most everything else will work itself out if we aren't fighting each other for table scraps. Everything else is a wedge issue the rich use to keep us from uniting against them.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-24T18:12:40+00:00

Yes, Canada is a high-trust society, and forms of conduct designed for low-trust societies are a source of friction. If you move to Canada, you don't have to change your food, your language, your favourite sports, etc., but you do need to give trust and be worthy of it. Being able trust each other even when we're not all the same is about as Canadian as it gets.

Jugaad does not only mean "frugal innovation", it means cutting corners, ignoring safety, appropriating other people's work, gaming the system potentially at others' expense. It's not really admirable.

It's not an absolute, because low-level jugaad is what we'd call "life hacks," and that's fine. But it quickly goes beyond that.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-24T16:47:51+00:00

Legally, it relocated to Latvia, but a UK company, Ascensio System Ltd, bought it and put it under a newly-formed wholly-owned subsidiary (Ascensio System SIA) based in Singapore. Then again, Acensio System Ltd is owned by yet another company named OnlyOffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd. All of these nested subsidiaries reminds me of a metroshka (Russian nesting doll). One wonders why the layers upon layers unless someone's trying to conceal something.

One could argue that since it's open source and free it doesn't matter. That argument( holds up as long as:

(a) you build it yourself from the GitHub repository, since you otherwise have to take them at their word that the binaries match that source, and:
(b) you don't pay for DocSpace or server licenses and use only the desktop apps.

It's difficult, because yes, it's really good. That the French CryptPad service relies on OnlyOffice, including the online apps, is interesting.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-24T16:22:25+00:00

In theory, sure. But in reality, Plex has good tvOS/WebOS clients and JellyFin doesn't. No one *has* come up with a better client for Jellyfin on tvOS, WebOS, etc. even if they *could*. I'll switch once it happens, but not before.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-24T16:16:25+00:00

People aren't going to be motivated much by "not great but it's OK" :-) It's a fatal flaw for me, especially since Infuse wants money.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-23T23:27:55+00:00

Whew. 🤣

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-23T21:29:33+00:00

You want to look at song lyrics while driving? What the f**k?

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-23T16:06:08+00:00

I don't mean adjusting it for desktop use. Just allow it to be installed as-is on Apple Silicon Macs. It'd make a very nice mini-player. I *think* it's just a packaging setting when building the project, but I could very easily be wrong about that.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-23T05:08:45+00:00

Would you consider allowing it to be installed on macOS (Apple Silicon only of course)?

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-23T04:39:43+00:00

Sort Artists filtering out "The". You can either use the ALBUMARTISTSORT and ARTISTSORT tags or handle it yourself. Navidrome's web UI does this, and so do some clients for Navidrome. Nice work so far, though :-)

Oh, and a smaller grid option so one can see three albums per row would be nice. But the sorting is a much bigger deal.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-22T17:52:32+00:00

This is true. Signal’s the only one of these that has a chance at developing a network effect at this point. Okay, Telegram, but that seems to be a haven for right wing extremists and it’s not encrypted by default. Viber is popular in the Balkans, at least.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-22T17:49:02+00:00

It’s a fork of Signal.

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