Maybe the “you never get a second chance for a first impression” is indeed unfair but it is hurdle for adoption.

In my case my motivation to keep using and trying LibreOffice is driven by the hate for MS and not by the love for LO.

For example: I went through some eye surgeries and really needed a dark mode. But I couldnt get a dark mode in which buttons still were cleary visible. Icons not showing well and hard to tell what they were for. Meaning I kept hoping the tooltips showed something usefull. But “reading” icons is a bit strange … I am sure if I search forums, git issues and documentation something usefull will turn up.

And maybe its infantile like you said but I sure like contextual filled menubars since PaintshopPro in 2005. So whats with the empty menus showing a handfull buttons and everything else in some cornermenu? Seems like a waste of screen real estate.

As for dataloss: sure my data wasnt lost but loading and pivoting a 90k row data table made Calc freeze and only restarted after killing it. 90k is not for everyone but it sure isnt a lot either in spreadsheet land.

Update

You asked why and I gave an explanation where the 27 downvotes came from. So I think there is some agreement within this lemmy about being offtopic.

If that bothers you too much I suggest focusing on something more productive, as I will do.

Not selfhosting AND privacy.

From the sidebar of this lemmy:

“A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.”

So its about self-hosting with certain qualities (not giving up privacy or lockin). Not about privacy in general.

Signal isnt selfhosted and does lock you in, albeit with a high reputation to not become evil.

Better lemmy would be https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy

Nothing to do with selfhosting

No-code goes further then the “configuration” level and its features are very generic, to make endless use cases possible.

Naming things is hard. But if you have a better category name to distinguish from classic cms software I am all ears.

And yes no-code software itself is written with code.

But I dont mind having a name for software in which

• you can add and manage workflows
• you can define tables/data/attributes and views
• that are not scoped to specific use cases up front
• query and scripts are abstracted away by a friendy UI

I know it doesnt counter surveillance but for Android TV very happy with Projectivy Launcher.

No bombardment of ads for media to buy films music or episodes. Just quiet navigation.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu

I am dutch and spend many an hour at the intersection of IT and Privacy … but this is the wrong community to advertise a local Signal group.

For Android, Universal Debloater is your friend.

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

When developer mode is possible at least.

Came for this one.

Immediately brought back memories of RSS and PubSubHubbub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub?wprov=sfla1

Yeah! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.comaps.google

Smartphone from employer doesnt permit sideloading. ;)

project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips

I do have the same overall concerns though and for me enough reason to switch the moment its possible also. But I tend to see the ‘the holiday trips’ as a symtpom instead of a problem. Later on they explained that some developers received 3 months salary worth of pay over the course of 4 years. Putting a lot more time in it during those four years. If I contributed that much for free I also would spend it on a holiday. But the problem is like you said transparancy:

• No openness of financial transactions which I guess showing salary wouldnt be a problem and if everybody was able to see the salary was reasonable. (and I dont care what people do with it in their private live).
• Maybe they didnt organise it that way (paying oneself for labour and tell everyone) but maybe they used it directly for holidays etc, which is a problem for the business entity they have I guess. Like my boss paying my holiday instead of my salary.
• Reluctant to answer questions in reasonable timeframes (couple of months)

https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/src/commit/ca98afbc81ca7df332e8aeff338320b5a5246bb6/FAQ.md For FAQ

OM and for now CoMaps are faster and easier to learn. For most people. With OSMand configurations are endless and people tend to get lost in them. Also the map data of OM is highly filtered OSM data. Meaning smaller files and a faster app.

The downside is less features, but as always … if you dont need the absent features … its a plus.

Now whats interesting how they both will keep it that way. My theory is when they listen to EVERY wish from random users (with other persona and user stories) they eventually become like OSMand too.

Boycot Digital Arms dealers … https://lemmy.ml/post/30486212

Wake me up when they get a drone droning drone drones …