LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with generative AI features due to the…
  • Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.world
    60·
    13 days ago

    I was prompted by this announcement to download it. An office suite came installed by default with this machine, but I want to support their numbers and start promoting it to others.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    10·
    12 days ago

    It’s wild to me that I only ever heard of LO just two years ago. (When they decided to paywall notepad it was the last straw for me.)

    Feels so so good to ditch Microsoft products.

  • Bluewing@lemmy.world
    7·
    12 days ago

    LibreOffice is the good stuff if you need an office suite. It can do everything you might actually need and the price is right. But I’m old and retired and no longer have a need for a full office suite. I find AbiWord and Gnumeric all I need anymore. It kind of makes me sad to do so, but I uninstall LibreOffice these days.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      Shit, I still use GobeProductive 3. Little more than 50 mb gets you a word processor, spreadsheet, image and graphics and a power point maker. And it’s pretty nice having my docs in a format that nobody even can open or convert.

  • kaotic@lemmy.world
    1·
    12 days ago

    I don’t mind AI, but I hate it being baked into every application with its own subscription to access. Just give me an MCP server to connect to when/if I decide I want to use AI with your application.

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    814·
    12 days ago

    Firefox has local AI built-in. I really wish people would stop referring to silicon valley technocrat cloud offerings as AI. AI has existed for 70 years. Plenty of academics and innovators that did the hard work to improve science and research are opposed to unchecked capitalists trying to exploit it for their oppressive endeavors. AI isn’t inherently good or bad. If you hate technocratic tech bros then just say that.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
      10·
      13 days ago

      The Altmans, Palantirs and Musks all refer to their shitty products they’re shoving in every product as ‘AI’, and people understand - they’re talking about LLMs. The haters of that group say ‘I fucking hate AI’ and people understand - they’re talking about big corporate LLMs, not some protein folding model that’s helping to cure cancer.

      Its not complex, and people don’t need to elaborate.