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1. Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 15:26:49 JST Gabe

   No shade but what's a FOSS/Privacy tool that's disappointed you?

   • T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer) (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 15:26:48 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer)

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     @gabriel
     gonna light up the fires with this one
     but libreoffice calc
     
     has been the most poor-performing buggy spreadsheet i have ever used... and I dont know why
   • Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:08:14 JST Tadano

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     • T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer)

     @theorytoe @gabriel We have R for two reasons:

     1. So we don't have to rely on Excel
     2. So we don't have to rely on Libreoffice Calc

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   • T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer) (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:13:05 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer)

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     • Tadano
     @tadano @gabriel
     i have R but its a glorified calculator at this point
     
     I kike the arbitrary nature of spreadsheets, its this sort of visual dumping ground for stuff, but you can do tons of neat calculations on stuff
     
     even as a programmer its nice to have a spreadsheet for stuff that has things that need calculations
     
     my example is for an upcoming project, i generated a bom for the parts. They all fit quite nicely in excel
   • Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:14:01 JST Tadano

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     @gabriel Both Matrix and XMPP. The former is utterly compromised and run by skittles people who would rather make paid versions of Synapse instead of developing a compiled, fully compliant server implementation. The latter has nobody going "what if we made client software that didn't suck balls?" Admittedly, neither XMPP nor Matrix devs seem concerned with making a functional client so XMPP wins by default.

     I am repeatedly baffled by the FOSS world's incapability at making chat software that doesn't blow. It can't be that hard to achieve similar functionality to Telegram or Discord within 5 years!

   • T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer) (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:14:01 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer)

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     • Tadano
     @tadano @gabriel have you tried simplex?
     its not perfect, but its very nice
   • Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:50:11 JST Tadano

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     • T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer)

     @theorytoe @gabriel Haven't tried it yet. Is it any good? More importantly, can you do chat + VoIP + Videocall + filesharing in it? The identityless nature of it looks cool but I haven't picked it up yet due to my disappointment with Matrix.

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