Wandering Adventure Party

@doskel@masto.doskel.net Not me, I'm a true real linux user

can you survive five nights of american news cycles?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/teen-coder-shuts-down-open-source-mac-app-whisky-citing-harm-to-paid-apps/

world's least sensationalist headline.

1) it was in maintenance
2) the paid app is from codeweavers and is a one time license.
3) the developer specified that unlike the paid app whisky didnt really contribute much back to wine

this article actually fully encapsulates the distinct lack of nuance seen on the fediverse when it comes to certain controversial technologies. it feels like it was written to start internet drama

YES ok. i have libreoffice installed but shit man. my professors want shit done in Access for certain courses, Excel has a way better implementation (tables for instance, super nice to have for organizational purposes and making queries for visualization and a bunch of dynamic shit). calc is mid. my professors have actually told me straight up "cannot open odf". I know they could, word allows you to do so but they pretended like it wasn't a real file format and refused to accept my submissions

like i genuinely do not understand. could you imagine if i went back to 2000 and started shilling a pencil to people that you had to pay monthly in order to use? nobody would fucking buy that shit yet it's acceptable for word processors?

do i actually own my computer? because without the software there's not much i can actually do. i mean, i run linux and i generally try to avoid subscription based software. this client pays for my access to adobe products, office etc. (my school also pays for that under a different account but i prefer to just do https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts so that policies aren't applied)

modern computers are such a fucking scam. oh, you spent $2k on hardware? yeah ok well now you get to spend hundreds/mo for access to software that you can run on your computer. remember when you could just buy a copy of microsoft office 2010 and then you just had it. no paying monthly just to have office. it feels like my computer is just leased to me by software companies