Older versions of Office have worked okay for a while now. Newer cloud-reliant ones are just going to break time and time again. On Linux your options basically boil down to O365 for Browser or Libreoffice.
> I know so many brilliant people in tech who were hung out to dry
Politicians didn't lay off those people, businesses did. If you think they need to be punished, then you boycott them or regulate their behavior. You're taking vengeance on the wrong people while letting the real perpetrator get away.
The problem is feds literally cannot get fired, ever, no matter how poorly a job they do. I know a fed who punched his coworker in the face at work, got nothing but a suspension. There has to be a correction at point.
I agree that reform is needed. That is not what the parent was advocating for, and my comment was a response to the nonsense logic behind their irate desire to see the American government suffer.
You will be disappointed if you demand that federal employees reciprocate the consequences that Silicon Valley workers face. They have job security for much different reasons than a SpaceX or FAANG employee.
> Who needs to get a girl pregnant, when you can jack off twice a day to a unique body every day for the next decade?
Buddy, here's the straight dope. If you're mad that teenage pregnancies are going down on average, you literally lack the basic empathy required to comment on the internet. Log off, you are just too unintelligent to contribute to this discussion.
If you're not trolling then I am seriously worried that you are autistic or mentally disabled and may not know it. This is outrageous behavior and I've seen you repeat this psychopathic bullshit for years now. Do you live in the real world? Do you have healthy relationships with family members or friends that share these ridiculous principles with you? It defies normalcy.
Also, great way to miss the point: I am all in favor of teen pregnancies going down; but if it’s because everyone is culturally stuck in an extended adolescence, that should not be confused with maturity, and the effects of that will be felt everywhere. I say "worse" replacements because if people aren't growing up, they will just do the original problematic activities later, while having their immaturity affect their lives and other people's lives longer.
Calling Jack Dorsey the real Satoshi is like calling Forrest Gump the real Einstein. It really does not take a very smart person to poke holes in this little theory.
I remember 2 years ago, part of HN was dead-to-rights convinced Elon wrote the Bitcoin source code because he claimed to know C++. People will find whatever evidence they can to support these largest-common-denominator theories.
The theory is making rounds, discussing tech-related news is what this site is about. I don't subscribe to that theory either, much of the evidence seems pretty far-fetched (father's birthday) to counterindicative (sailing trip).
I think it could be argued that the Mac contributes nearly nothing to Apple's current trillion-dollar valuation. If the Mac was spun out into it's own business it would be lucky to crest a $100B market cap.
> You do not have the right to automatically enroll them into a new subscription model AFTER they have made a permanent license purchase.
Have you read the EULA and TOS they made you sign? Very often companies do reserve the right to automatically enroll you in a new equivalent service after voiding your lifetime license.
This is ultimately one of those things you just have to prepare for whenever relying on paid software.
> The US side at the Munich Security Conference demanded that Ukraine immediately agree to their version of the mineral resources deal in exchange for aid, otherwise, they threatened to prevent a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance. However, the pressure stopped after Kyiv refused, and the meeting took place anyway.
This is pathetic. You cannot strong-arm an ally with diplomacy, and evidently America realized that after trying to take something off the table that America needs more than Ukraine.
Events like this are living proof of why American aid is wasted when we precondition it on political agreement with an extremist administration.
> I think it needs a replacement for serious cloud and AI-related tasks.
Why? I use it for both and it is expressly excellent at them. With configuration and automation frameworks on top like NixOS or k8s, you can build just about anything.
Hint: it wasn't replacing Linux, as that would be an impossibly huge task.
Instead NVIDIA rewrote their drivers, so secret source code no one was supposed to see run on their secret source hardware. The system that replaced was asking every customer work around the licences incompatibilities by compiling it themselves.
The smarter "f u nvidia" move would be for big tech companies to go to TSMC directly for their GPUs and cut out nvidia. They'd have to design the chips of course but that's probably easier than designing and writing an OS.
Nvidia doesn't need an OS. They sell hardware, and their hardware receives driver support on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and previously, MacOS. If you built and documented an OS for AI-based tasks, Nvidia would probably be the first OEM to merge hardware support.
Linus' comment towards Nvidia was not made from the perspective of a business, either. He was lamenting that their drivers are nonfree and that their desktop support was lazy. Neither of those things matter to 99% of businesses that are using Nvidia hardware for AI compute. Also, both aren't strictly true anymore in 2025 as Nvidia officially supports Wayland now and technically has "Open" drivers.
