Fair enough, this is just my interpretation. I just really don’t like how they phrased it, where they want voices that do not sound “foreign-born”. I’ve heard the same sort of stuff directed at my family in the past for our “foreign” accents, despite my parents having proper Australian citizenship and everything.

And based on how their response is just “asshole” and “obtuse”, it doesn’t seem like they’re the open-minded type. They have also claimed that Native Americans being “born and bred Americans” is not honest (which isn’t a good look)

Again, not a good way to back up your statements

As it turns out, calling somebody an asshole is not a very good way to explain your points. If your position is correct, then you should back it up with relevant statements.

I did not say that, don’t put words in my mouth. I said, in the context of the question where he wants to find voices that sound like “born and bred Americans”, it isn’t a helpful descriptor due to the wide range of accents across all those who were born and raised in the United States.

I did not accuse anybody of being racist, I mentioned that even if one was racist, the question still doesn’t make much sense due to the variety of accents among descendants of European migrants.

I do not support the segregation of races, I myself am from a migrant family. I am equally Australian as those from other backgrounds.

I reiterated my point that Native Americans, under any definition, falls under “born and bred Americans”, as OP believed that it was not honest, i.e. a lie

All who were born and raised in the United States are equally American, they eat the same food and participate in the same festivals.

Born: anybody who was born in the land that is now the United States of America. This can include the Native Americans, descendents of European migrants, and descendents of non-European migrants. That’s a whole slew of different accents and cultures.

Bred: anybody who was raised in the United States of America since birth. Again, this can include Native Americans, (second generation or more) descendents of European migrants, and (second generation or more) descendents of non-European migrants.

Something is telling me that’s not what you define as “born and bred” American. Even if you are a big racist who believes only white people can be “born and bred Americans”, there are lots of different accents among white people (a Texan, New Yorker, and Californian have vastly different accents, not to mention those descended from Scottish, Irish, French, Italian, Greek, etc. migrants)

There is objectively no definition of “born and bred” Americans that does not include Native Americans, since they were the first to be born and raised there, and broader definitions are unhelpful in that it lumps in lots of different groups. The racist definition, again, isn’t helpful due to the wide variety of accents among the descendents of the European migrants.

Define “born and bred”, what the hell does that mean. The closest definition would be Native Americans I feel, who have lived on those lands for ages, but there’s so many different tribes and accents. My intuition is telling me this isn’t your definition of a “born and bred” American.

If it weren’t for the price of memory (and everything else), the FW12 would be an easy buy for me. It is equal to or surpasses my current 13th gen Intel laptop in every way aside from the display (an amazing OLED to a reddish LCD is not great), and I really want one of their fun colours, especially the purple one!

Maybe in the future I can get one for cheap in the used market? Framework’s “neutral” stance (that is, their unwillingness to criticise DHH and Omarchy. Not nearly as bad as Dell and others, who more blatantly support such nasty politics, but still) bothers me, so buying used also means my money won’t go directly to them.

Cat, yay!

At first it looked a bit like one of those carnivorous plants, so I was a bit confused why you labelled it “king parrot”. Sneaky bird was semi-camouflaged to look like the plants!

Anyways, this is a very good parrot :D

*piggy 🍏🐖

I mean, if you’re insane you could pair this with Microsoft Edge for Linux

In Hong Kong, Macau (both speak majorly Cantonese), and Taiwan (mostly speaking their own flavour of Mandarin, Hokkien, and a few other ones too depending on where you are), they use traditional Chinese characters while the mainland PRC (huge pot of all sorts of dialects and other bits, but Mandarin is the standard language) is simplified, and somebody who knows one is not always able to read the other.

I think KDE did something recently to make everyone angry but I can’t remember what (AI related maybe?)

Partly true. Somebody talked about the idea of KDE Plasma becoming an “AI-native” desktop at Akademy (the KDE conference), and the discussion (which, as far as I’m aware, was all it was. I’m pretty sure it was just some guy, not the KDE team), and the media overblew it with headlines like “KDE Plasma becoming an AI-native desktop???”

There are good reasons to dislike KDE Plasma, but I don’t think this is one of them. If you prefer GNOME because you prefer how it looks, that’s cool too! And again, it’s made by developers who do it at no cost to us, and the fact that Plasma is so good (as is GNOME, Cinnamon, etc.) is awesome

edit: The people who talked about Plasma as an “AI native” desktop in Akademy used to be KDE developers but are no longer active contributors. It was not the KDE team saying “this is what we will do in the future”. There’s a good video about it by Nicco (a KDE dev who makes videos regarding Linux and other bits) if you want to learn more: https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/b97487b5-b544-4652-8548-c0a732f87f45

Oops yeah that is a good point! Amended the comment.

You’re confusing OpenOffice (dead project pretty much, hasn’t seen updates in ages) with OnlyOffice (the Russian one with the licensing shenanigans and “AI first” stuff, UI is M365-like and very similar to the LibreOffice “Tabbed” UI)

I haven’t used any of them in ages, I know Collabora is focused on their online suite. Looking at OnlyOffice’s website, they are positioning themselves as an “AI-first” office suite (the LLM tools have been changed to be optional and installed separately since a recent update, but still a bad look)

And WPS Office was always owned by a Chinese company and continues to be closed-source, so no changes there. Again, the same sort of “AI-first” stuff on their homepage, yikes

LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. I believe LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice, and the latter hasn’t had any updates in ages.

I imagine that the UI you selected was the one of the “compact” or “single toolbar” options? It is a little confusing that some of the one functions disappear with those, it would be helpful if it was listed which ones were missing

It’s never that MS Office files don’t work on LibreOffice (formatting is a little different but almost never broken), it’s always files exported from LibreOffice that MS Office misreads (because Microsoft can’t be bothered to follow standards are anti-competitive)

Apparently it looks identical to MS Office, so it isn’t “better” than MS Office or LibreOffice in a functional sense (arguably less so since it’s probably very buggy code)

I wouldn’t say it’s people (normal people would be using MS Office or LibreOffice most likely) excited that it’s LLM generated, though some AI Bros probably are, I imagine some outlets are promoting this to sell whatever the new model is these days. And when there is a lot of news around a topic, it’s covered by more and more people (something about all press is good press here)

LibreOffice is an awesome piece of kit! On setup, they let you select the “tabbed” UI if you prefer something closer to MS office.

Collabora Office is another one that seems neat, have not used it before though. OnlyOffice has weird Russian ties and GPL incompatible licensing shenanigans, I would avoid them for the most part. WPS Office has the best compatibility with MS Office files on Linux I think, but it’s closed-source so not great either. There’s always running a VM / dual booting if you must use MS Office.

Honestly, MS office files have worked fine on LibreOffice, the only big issue I’ve found is that translucent images are a little broken when going from Impress to PowerPoint (all images share the same opacity for some reason?)