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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2026
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I love LibreOffice.
My only complaint using it every day at work is [a complaint against microsoft] how much my company uses microsoft products (but won't shell out for office licenses for 90% of staff) and microsoft purposefully makes their shit not display or read Libre files correctly to try to keep their grubby monopoly claws dug into everyone.
My IT staff is too stupid to send announcements out to a BCC list and causes reply-all waves about once a month so I am not holding out hope that we make any progress as a company towards smart computing.
How the hell is sending to high user count DLs not restricted to people capable of thinking and breathing at the same time (or managment, which ever signs your paychecks)?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... inhale HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Anyone with access to a computer can e-mail the entire company with one address. Hell, the way they are setup, I would not even be a little bit shocked to find out someone outside the company e-mail system could e-mail the entire company if that address got leaked...
Omg, I just checked... One of our IT people has sent us mail via the "entire company list" from their personal gmail account before...
[thousand yard stare]... You have my sympathies...
Where do you work, the second tier of hell?! JFC.
It feels like...
Oh damn I remember working at a telecom company in the early 2000s. About once every quarter someone would email the corporate distribution list with an announcement that was intended for just their team.
The subsequent avalanche of people replying all with "don't CC me on this kind of email" followed by the inevitable follow up of people with no self awareness replying all that people shouldn't be so stupid as to reply all to a corporate wide email because it can crash the email server followed by yet another wave of people replying all to point out that the person just did the same thing and mock them... Then the email server would actually crash, then there would be an official message from leadership telling people not to email the corporate directory, and not to reply all of someone did...
Then inevitably someone would get back from leave a couple of days later and reply all again telling people not to CC then on that type of email...
It was downright hilarious.
It's one of the perks of the job. At my last company, we'd let those things run their course before cleaning up the mess. It was always a good reminder that the majority of the company is too dumb to be left unsupervised with anything more advanced than a basic calculator.
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