BackYardIncendiary

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[–] BackYardIncendiary 18 points 6 days ago

This would be the perfect time to call out their hypocritical extension of copyright through recent trade deals.

American tech companies have made fortunes by violating licensing and copyright laws. Force Uber and AirBNB to buy taxi and hotel licenses. Put an intellectual property tax on AI. Prosecute Paypal for banking without a charter, ban cryto as illegal currency... the list goes on.

[–] BackYardIncendiary 1 points 2 weeks ago

Akelpad is a nice replacement. I use it on my work laptop. It's locked down so I can't install anything, but I can use portable apps!

https://portableapps.com/news/2024-10-23--akelpad-portable-4.9.9-released

[–] BackYardIncendiary 1 points 1 month ago

Understood. Thanks!

[–] BackYardIncendiary 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also, when poor people stop being cooler than rich people :D

[–] BackYardIncendiary 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

FreeOffice is listed here, but their paid product, Softmaker Office is not. They still offer a non-subscription Desktop Office Suite here: https://www.softmaker.com/en/shop/softmaker-office

Disclaimer: I'm a user of the product. I have no affiliation with the company.

[–] BackYardIncendiary 35 points 1 month ago

China, also: your dynasty is closing in on 300 years, huh? Good luck!

[–] BackYardIncendiary 2 points 1 month ago

Cool. Your site is a great resource!

[–] BackYardIncendiary 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just ordered a new SSD from them and received it in two days. Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] BackYardIncendiary 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hi again. You can actually buy Softmaker Office versions outright (a non-subscription purchase), but they seem to have made the option harder to find these days: https://www.softmaker.com/en/shop/softmaker-office

[–] BackYardIncendiary 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Since we're in Buy European, I'm going to plug Softmaker Office. I bought it to replace MS Office at work and no one seems to have noticed. I used see formatting issues in word docs when using LibreOffice.

[–] BackYardIncendiary 1 points 1 month ago

Cool! Thanks! I'll add these after work.

[–] BackYardIncendiary 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a strange error for Github! Glad it's working for you again.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by BackYardIncendiary to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
 

I mentioned a list of Canadian retailers that I started in a thread about avoiding Amazon (https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/post/32698876) and otter@lemmy.ca suggested that I post it here. So here it is:

https://github.com/Visiblink/CanadianRetailers

If you're not on Github and you want to make an addition, pm me with the store name and a link. :)

 

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