guimi's comments

On: The New Collabora Office for Desktop

[guimi]

Download button takes me to windows store. That doesn't work on my machine. On Linux got as a flatpak.

[yeah879846 → guimi]

windows store was a huge red flag

[Marsymars → yeah879846]

Conceptually I like the Windows Store for certain things (i.e. those where I want automatic updates) - I can manage my apps from it via the winget CLI and winget.config files, and get automatic updates.

However, the LTSC edition of Windows doesn't have Windows Store support, and the non-LTSC editions of Windows have become untenable to me.

On: Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

[guimi]

If I'm not mistaken, no need to use Privacy Badger if you're already using uBlock Origin and Firefox Total Cookie Protection. https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1d3so6g/should_i_u...

[ghostwords → guimi]

Nah, Privacy Badger is different. PB doesn't use ad blocker lists and comes with its own special features like replacing tweets with click-to-activate placeholders. And if you want to block all ads, PB works well in combination with ad blockers.

As for Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection, cookies are not the only tracking vector: https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...

On: Ask HN: Why is Adobe the only company capable of editing PDF files?

[guimi]

LibreOffice Draw can also edit PDFs.

https://www.libreoffice.org/