StrawberryPigtails

Libre Office should work in most cases. In the handful that Libre Office can't you might try installing MS Office through WINE.

One heads up, even MS Office on Windows has trouble with opening MS Office formats correctly between versions. Seems like every time they release a new version the format changes slightly but dramatically. The actual text is usually fine, but formatting is often borked.

A third option is to use Office 365. It's browser based. It's also a monthly subscription.

Heating and cooling are expensive at our house so we generally let the temp do what it wants so long as it stays between 64F and 80F. The dehumidifier, though, tends to keep it in the upper end of that range during the summer.

Yep.

You don't have to but it helps folks that don't speak English to be able to filter by language. English speakers seem to be dominant in the undetermined category from what I've noticed.

Thats a new one on me. What did that do if I may ask? Best I have been able to figure out is that it's probably IRC related but that's it.

Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

I feel seen!

In all honesty, I've been doing something somewhat similar for the last 2 decades or so. Originally I was building my archives because I was often away from internet access. Now, though, it's just become habit.

I started with basic first aid and medical texts and whatever other books and reference texts I found interesting. To that I also archive proprietary software and the source code and releases for the open source software I find useful. Add to that ISOs of the distributions I tend to use and I'm at roughly 3TB. I could probably cut that to 2TB if I remove the older Ubuntu and NixOS releases. I'm over 30TB if you include CD and DVD rips.

About the only thing I am missing from my current archives would be a clone of the Ubuntu and NixOS repositories for all of the "glue" dependencies that no one ever thinks of. After that you would just need the hardware to build out the network.

Technically, they still can be prosecuted through the impeachment process. It doesn’t seem likely to happen at the moment but still it’s possible.

I’m inclined to say no. It pretty much a useless feature and doesn’t solve the fundamental problems of searching a federated service like Lemmy.

Even if LLMs worked like the general public thinks they should, who would pay for the processing time? A one off request isn’t too expensive, sure, but multiply that times however many users a server might have and it gets real expensive real quick. And that’s just assuming the models are hosted by the Lemmy server. It gets even more expensive if you’re using a one of the public APIs to run the LLM queries.

You'll need to be more specific I'm afraid. Lemmy isn't a single site, but rather a bunch of sites all talking to one another in the same "language".

Is your homeserver, lemm.ee communist? No clue. I do know lemmygrad.ml is. My homeserver, lemmy.sdf.org, leans from libertarian to liberal to marxist depending on the particular subject or user.

Each cat their own rat.

Canonical? the US could try but Canonical isn't a US company so far as I know. The attempt would probably just piss off their "home" nation. That would be the UK, I think.

Red Hat is another story though. It's owned by IBM which is a US company, which means it is, in theory, obliged to obey any lawful order of the US government. I say "in theory" because there is a long history of companies here saying "Yes sir, Yes sir, Three bags full sir." and then doing whatever they want when no one is looking anymore. For examples see Facebook, Google, OpenAI, Exxon IBM, Coke, Ford and... Well just about every company that has been around for more than 20 years and most small businesses to boot.

Practically speaking, though. These companies are based around open source projects whose source code has been widely distributed. If you need to, (or hell, even if you just want to) fork them, rename the project to avoid trademarks, and move on. Whether you flip Uncle Sam the bird as you do so, your call.

Depends on what the thread was about. If it's a technical thread, and if you have something to contribute that might help someone in the future with that issure, go ahead. Most of the rest of the time, it's just bad form.

That is a beautiful guitar.