LibreOffice 24.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
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"If we don't kill 'em now, they're bound to grow up to be terrorists."
Not a waste at all. That money went into the pockets of very many friends of the Conservative party, and getting money into the pockets of the friends of the Conservative party is one of the main aims of the Conservative party.
The latest Mint (21.3) does have experimental Wayland support. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.
Oh, believe me, I found that and installed everything except the kitchen sink (which took a ridiculously long time with a non-rotating throbber and no progress bars), but the DLLs and OCXs the program insisted on having were not in any of those.
I then found and downloaded what I thought might be the right files from somewhere online (ClamAV said they were clean of malware at least) and put them in the right place in the directory structure. Some of those were detected and I made progress.
Others weren't registered with the, well, registry properly and regsvr32 on the command line part of Bottles didn't seem to be working for at least one of them. Maybe I needed specific options or was doing it wrong, but no error messages were happening.
Maybe I was only one step away from getting it working, but there was no way to know and I had no idea what to try next, so I gave up.
I mean, I could request those obscure DLLs be added to the Bottles dependencies repository in the hope that that might make it work, but that could be a long wait, and it was a crappy little Windows game I just wanted muck around with again and would have gotten bored with after a few days.
Bottles, like most related things, is based on WINE. DLL hell is real. Source: Been there, done that, gave up after an hour (not counting installing Bottles, which came with its own problems unfortunately.)
Without some absolutely top-tier propaganda, you'll end up with a whole load of conscientious objectors who'll have to be cajoled or outright threatened to fight.
And you don't want to give a gun to someone who's been forced into a miserable situation they don't want to be in with no way out.
On the other hand, maybe there are enough zoomers who'd take to conscription like their (great-)great-grandparents did in the 1940s. Gung-ho, fight the enemy, come back with PTSD if you come back at all and all that.
Maybe they'll leave that last part out of the propaganda. Or maybe this time they'll promise (pretty promise with sugar and a cherry on top) that since we have PTSD treatments now, those will definitely be implemented for those who make it back. Absolutely. No question.
Yay war!
Supes' face is all "We just jumped off a 20-story building. Do they think they're not gonna break their legs when we land?"
Bats is grinning because he's done something to the pavement down there already so that doesn't happen.
Robin is grinning because he's hanging out with Superman and has not another thought in his empty little head. Wheeeee
"Damn right! Good thinking, Brown. Those lazy good for nothing oiks and whackos should get far less. In fact, is there a way to get them to give us money?" - John Q. Tory.
Some systems already have this implemented. For example, on my machine open is /usr/bin/open which links to /etc/alternatives/open which in turn currently points at /usr/bin/xdg-open.
Users of GNOME-derived window managers might also want to look into the gio command that abstracts a lot of GUI things through the command line. Most of the functionality duplicates more basic commands, but these use the GUI's API / behaviour where possible.
The best example might be gio trash which can delete things to the desktop Rubbish/Recycle/Trash bin rather than vanish them completely as rm does.
A pity there's no xdg- wrapper that encompasses gio and whatever KDE and others do though. Maybe that'll happen one day.
Hopefully, if the big bosses of various big companies are indeed in some kind of club with each other, this is where the bosses of the companies that "suffered" have a quiet word with the bosses of the companies that did well in order to ensure the fairer redistribution of wealth. (At their level. Screw everyone else.)
It might mean a levelling of prices back to the same kind of ratio we preferred. The prices very much won't be to our liking unfortunately, but the ratios will be nicer. Hopefully.
And it might mean the greedier C-levels have to sulk about things for a while, instead of the ones that "suffered", which is the only positive that can come out of all of this for the rest of us.
According to the ancient list of standard keyboard shortcuts (generally made famous by Microsoft, but used elsewhere before and after), the context menu was Shift+F10 anyway. Plain F10 being the main menu. A context menu key wasn't really needed.
Even the Windows key had the alternative binding Ctrl+Esc for those people who had old keyboards. That's why Ctrl+Shift+Esc called up Task Manager. Related meanings and all that. Arguably though, the Windows key being associated with the space-cadet keyboard's Super functionality was a stroke of genius on the part of Linux adopters. It's also why Alt is often called "Meta".
I'm surprised the context menu key hasn't been called and used as "Hyper", but then there is only one on a modern PC keyboard. There's two of all the others.
(Given the precedent, Alt+F10 ought to be the window manager's "title bar" menu, but the Alt+F# shortcuts are a separate, older, family. Most aren't implemented by default these days, but the famous don't press it without thinking Alt+F4 to close the window is part of it. Alt+Space is what's used instead for the aforementioned menu.)
Come now; Perl is one of the Great Old Ones.
Whatever makes you happiest in the moment.
If you have any concerns whatsoever that an upgrade over the top of an existing system might cause problems and/or leave cruft behind that will bug you, however harmless it might be: backup, format the system partition, install fresh.
Otherwise, backup, install the upgrade.
One strategy might be to upgrade a couple of times and then for the next upgrade, start afresh instead.
That might be what I choose to do when the next version of my distro comes out since I've upgraded the last couple of times. Prior to that I basically started afresh because I changed distro. Maybe I'll change distro again.
I should probably mention that I'm a home user in charge of one PC and have never been a main sysadmin (sysadmin gofer and work monkey, yes; boss, no), so you might want to take this under advisement.
Do you have a password manager installed?
The one I use can populate the clipboard with usernames, passwords, etc. for easy pasting but I'm pretty sure it clears the clipboard after a time for security.
If the clipboard is used for something else within that time window, that could be cleared out instead, I imagine. Caveats being that maybe mine is smarter than that or my memory isn't great so even if it has happened I don't remember. The fact this idea occurred to me makes me wonder though.
Also, different applications do things differently so maybe even if mine doesn't, yours might, etc.
The fact it was a one-off might also tie in because we log into things about as sporadically as one-off weird things happening, and you might not have connected the two, so to speak, if that's what's happened.
squinting real hard at the yellow: "for... the... love of... God... my... anu" oh I know this quote.
There was a system I was a user on once a long time ago, user being important, where I got into the habit of running kill -9 -1 to literally (SIG)KILL all processes to log out. It meant I didn't leave anything running and I had already saved my work. Never had a problem with it. It only killed processes my account had access to, after all.
Later I used it to log out of a system I was root on.
root. oh no.
There was no grinding and crunching of gears, but my brain plays that sound effect anyway.
Thus the habit was very quickly unlearned.
Do wmctrl, xdotool and similar work with it, and if not, what are their equivalents under Wayland?
Tobey Maguire's incarnation wasn't exactly kept super-secret either if I remember correctly.
The jump from 7.x right to 24.x had me thinking this was an AI generated article at first, but the main LibreOffice website does indeed show that the new version number is 24.
EDIT: The article literally talks about this and I missed it. Twice. I would like to claim to be on drugs, but sadly(?) this is not the case.
The choice of 24 makes me think they've decided to switch to using the last two digits of the current year as the main version number, rather than the previous arbitrary increases, but I can't find anything obvious about this on the site.
Their current release schedule is every six months, and as long as they don't accelerate the way web browser releases do, this probably wouldn't come back to bite them.
The sub-version being .2 and it being February soon makes me wonder if that's intentional as well.
As for commentary on LibreOffice itself: I use it every once in a while, so I don't dig deep into its feature set(s) at all. In a previous update I noticed a few things had been moved around in Calc (the spreadsheet) which I'm still getting used to, but by and large all I can do is appreciate those working on it and, for whatever it's worth, thank them for their efforts.