I think you meant Chrom(e|ium). Chrom{e,ium} expands out to Chrome Chromium. Which isn't what you meant, I think.

That's really pushing the boundaries on what a "minimum viable product" can be.

go visit any major “third world” country city … probably see those everywhere.

This is not really a huge issue.

Most commercial software gives you a detailed version report.

Either way, the simplest solution would be -v, and -vv and -vvv … don’t do moreversion or lessversion.

The equivalent would be —version —version —version.

Every time I open a browser on my aging Linux computer (which is running the latest Linux updates), I'm reminded of this...

If LO ceases to exist, then I will just use plain text typesetting tools.

There are many good options for text editing, some for presentations, but what about spreadsheets? Using Python/R/SQL everywhere ain't no panacea, spreadsheets are really useful in some cases and LO has the best implementation I've seen apart from Excel.

Gnumeric, since 2001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnumeric

plenty of ways with sqlite. someone just needs to come up with a good front-end without monetizing it.

there's sqlite db browser, but not much challenger in this space because it either gets turned to a saas (notion, airtable) or is a niche dev tool.

if the internet cabal in the US was actually a free market, you’d be right!

yes and no.

there will always be a legal shield for those in power, i.e. the presidency but it will have a bigger chilling effect on freedom of speech against those the conservatives wish to silence.

platforms will become required to police any dissenting voices and shut down any content that the “current” administration deems unsuitable. they have levers they can pull to keep media companies in line.

the issue isn’t what plebs are posting but that the media companies ALLOW these “undesirable” posts to exist (thanks to section 230). without that protection, they will either have to aggressively moderate or disable open comments and communication which is a form of censorship. exactly what the conservatives want.

Front end folks have this weird preoccupation with putting more on the client.

I want to use proportional fonts, but the terminal fonts don’t support those font grids well.