BackYardIncendiary

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.

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

Understood. Thanks!

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

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.

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

Cool. Your site is a great resource!

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

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

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.

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

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