If you’d like a more MS-Office-like UI, you can enable the “tabbed interface”: https://books.libreoffice.org/en/WG72/WG7221-UserInterfaceVariants.html#toc8

Well, there is also the thing about the US becoming an increasingly unreliable trading partner for the EU. There have been frequent news about military organizations and city administrations switching away from Microsoft Office over the past months.

In particular, the International Criminal Court was hit directly with sanctions last year, where Microsoft was required to block their chief prosecutor from accessing his e-mail account: https://cybernews.com/tech/icc-replacing-microsoft-workplace-software-opendesk/

The ICC has since started switching away from Microsoft Office. And just two weeks ago, they were hit again but with much worse sanctions: https://apnews.com/article/us-icc-trump-rubio-4ea3555403e3c695d8f81dc473515d9b

I could imagine that this brought a lot of attention back to the Microsoft Office dependency of other organizations, too.

Personally, yeah.

To me, it’s a matter of: It is not open-source, so if the FUTO company starts enshittifying it, then no one’s going to fork it to undo that, because no one wants that proprietary license on their project, whether they intend to distribute it commercially or not.

Obviously, I could just switch to a different keyboard app, if that happens, but in my experience, it also means that no one has their eyeballs on the source code to notice them enshittifying and they’re just generally more likely to sneak shit in, because they know no one’s going to fork.

But I’m also not either a fan of open-source software when it’s developed by a company, for similar reasons. For example, Google puts so much dev capacity into Android and has the infrastructure to uniquely benefit from it, so at best you’ll get soft-forks. No one can afford to do a proper hard-fork and fix the permission system, for example.

Mind that FUTO is not FLOSS, just source-available.

They announced it here: https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/

Do read the section about accessibility, in particular this bit:

Please open a bug report if you have any special requirements that we don’t cover yet! This is an active topic we’re very interested in improving.

I guess, it can select the wrong song, if:

• the correct song doesn’t have its acoustic fingerprint in the MusicBrainz database (otherwise it would be the closest match), and
• another song has a similar enough acoustic fingerprint, above a threshold that you can configure in the Picard settings.

I assume, it has to be a threshold, because you might have slight variations for the same song/recording, like silence at the end trimmed or volume normalized or whatever.

And yeah, Picard’s UI is certainly a bit of a hurdle. Conveying information for so many changes is definitely not easy, so I don’t want to complain.
But you know, if it would have detected that some of my songs will get renamed not just with a few capitalization fixes, but rather completely different words, and it would have prompted me for those, then I wouldn’t have misnamed songs now…

Yeah, at some point, I told Picard to just re-sort everything and that was not a good idea. Some songs got renamed or put under a different artist, because I guess, the actual song is not in the MusicBrainz database.
I do have a backup that I should restore actually, but yeah, difficult to notice such changes and especially to know how much damage was done.

I did also figure, I should just add the unknown songs into MusicBrainz, but boy, I added one album and that took more than half an hour…

Definitely leaning more and more towards that unsorted life…

There is Kid3 for Android as well. 😅

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.kid3

It’s not the smoothest Android app, I’ve ever seen, but seems serviceable…

Well, what preprocessor would you add, other than denylisting certain words? 😅

If you use an LLM to try to detect the semantics, you’ve got the same problem again…

Well, they would typically have a system prompt (like an invisible chat message that’s sent to the LLM at the start of the conversation), where it would tell the LLM something like “You’re a helpful chatbot. Talk cheerfully and use 🩵 all the time.”

And in that system prompt, you can also give it instructions to only answer certain questions. But it really is like a chat message, in that it just as well might ignore those instructions when another chat message asks it to.

OP chose the formulation “Before I subscribe to a creator, …” which might be necessary here to get it to answer, as it might have been told to only help with creator subscriptions, but then the formulation implies that by answering this question, it is helping the user to subscribe. That’s called a prompt injection.

If you can find a prompt injection, then yes, you can do this with any chatbot.
Although they might still not be as useful as a dedicated tool, since they likely can’t do tool calls, like web searches or running the compiler.

Yeah, I was gonna say, just a bunch of Markdown files would probably be fine. Use e.g. mdBook if you want a static webpage with search.

A dedicated service might have some advantages, but personally, I’d care much more about having my recipe collection in a format that I can access without specific software.

Ah yeah, it’s just a translucent overlay slapped on top of everything. It’s the fallback option when nothing else works.

Lots of apps that advertise lowering screen brightness below 0% just do that, so I thought that’s what you mean.

There is also a way to properly filter the colors, which doesn’t discolor things as badly, but I believe you need root for that, or for it to be built into the OS, like the “Extra Dim” option that various ROMs have.

I guess, there might also be ROMs where the manufacturer decided to limit how low you can set the brightness via the UI, even though the hardware would accept lower values. In that case, yeah, try what @hexagonwin@lemmy.today posted with writing to that file via ADB.
Maybe you can also do that via Termux somehow, if you’ve got root on your device.

I used this app before it came built into the OS for me: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jmstudios.redmoon

Slop 😕

Ah yeah, that makes more sense, thanks!

Anyone using the national domain registrar? Does it only resolve nationally, if you buy from there, as the article implies…?

But you want your domain over the world. Cool, do you have enough clients to need this? Then you can hire a person in each country to buy you a domain from the local registry.

I’ve been interested in getting a domain name, but it always just felt like a scam to pay a monthly fee for an entry in a database. If the national registrar is good enough, that would be cool.

Although, I guess, if it is not, I’d at least still be somewhat more at peace with that, since it would mean the intermediate company actually does something…

By the way, I did not procrastinate posting this since July 25th. The file name does not say 2026-07-25. That did not happen. Nuh-uh.

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On Android, Vanilla Music has it. Although the app is unfortunately semi-broken on newer Android versions and not being updated anymore, because Google came up with an even more fucked up API for accessing files in the filesystem.

Deleting songs doesn’t work anymore. Not sure, what else is broken…

https://f-droid.org/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla

Well, politics isn’t about finding the one principle to rule them all. The folks/companies that find restricting access to children important, probably don’t particularly care about some Linux devices being excluded. And other folks/companies find not restricting their Linux server really important, so that’s a compromise that can be made.

I imagine, they landed on specifically open-source being excluded as the more abstract rule, because open-source in particular has a problem here.
Anyone can download open-source software and run it. In most cases, there is no central backend, which could handle age verification.

And even if there is, it’s not really financially viable to offer that for anyone who downloads the software for free. Requiring payment to access the binaries or the source code would also effectively kill the open-source ecosystem, which is also not in the interest of most people.

More of a general tip: https://reuse.software/ can help to get this stuff right.

Pretty sure, it won’t be able to help with your use-case of copy-pasting code snippets, though (it’s not at all trivial to know which parts you copy-pasted), but it gives you a structure to work with and can automatically annotate new source files.