"Hey, DT. Why LibreOffice Instead Of OpenOffice?" Plus Other Questions.

[@IronFractal]

0:00 - Intro 0:19 - Where is Brave's source code? 3:56 - Replacement for Thunderbird? 6:13 - Silver plaque unboxing for 100k? 7:52 - Pink hair? 8:16 - Terminal emulator for Android? 10:03 - Why do you have a Samsung S10? 11:24 - Shaved bald is still bald. 11:36 - Thoughts on Apache OpenOffice? 14:28 - Creating backups and good system stability?

[@diginomad6016]

I watched the whole video but in different order. Thanks.

[@akim5227]

DT, please add time stamps in the description it is VERY convenient

[@cesar8197]

There still true kindness in this dark and bald world :D

[@Noodles.FreeUkraine]

Ah yes, Oracle. The place where good software goes to die a painful, miserable death.

[@belisariussmith9095]

..and hardware

[@nkmicros540]

The solution about backup your data - the way he says is one of the best practice. Instead of your laptop internal drive you just using the external one for your files. You can stick it behind your laptop screen (with velcro for example) and create there the same default system folders as in your OS (Linux or Windows) and use it that way. (like an external mirror). Pros: 1. It is more safe if your computer breaks or OS dies. 2. You can reinstall your OS whenever you want, without having the headache to back up anything (or forget and leave something behind). 3. Your Data portability. 4. You can have much smaller internal hard drive (128GB for example) Cons: 1. You have to carry that external drive with you laptop all the time. 2. You need to type your credentials (password) every time you reconnect it. OBS.: Of course that external drive you need to have encrypted, otherwise you lose all benefits.

[@mihumono]

Store credentials in keyring or use yubikey or other hardware key.

[@thingsiplay]

The 2 dislikes are from people who still uses OpenOffice.

[@zehph]

And don't know how to STFW :')

[@GeoTechLand]

I remember when Openoffice was the alternative then it became libreoffice :)

[@thingsiplay]

@_ Nemo Add roff/groff to the list. :p

[@thingsiplay]

@_ Nemo Sounds like learning Vim. I want to get into LaTeX at some point, at least learn the syntax and see how it works. I have looked into roff and it was horrible. It probably pays off in the long run.

[@thingsiplay]

@_ Nemo That's a good advice, as I think too many people are just following. But in my case, I want to learn and explore, because I am interested in it. It is not because I need TeX, but because of my curious nature. I was in the comfort zone for too long.

[@edjupp6643]

Thank you DT, YOU MAKE KZbin A BETTER PLACE!

[@waltz9230]

I really don’t like that Brave doesn’t openly say on their homepage that they’re free and open source. They should be very vocal and upfront about that, they’ve done some sketchy stuff in the past too. We should keep my eye on them and push them to be more vocal about _our_ FOSS mission.

[@theproftiago]

Man why don't you make this series a podcast?

[@minepro1206]

My question: WHERE'S MY UNFETTERED FREEDOM DT?

[@tophan5146]

Don’t use google search browser

[@edjupp6643]

but still the smartest even though. :5

[@aedd3307]

@AstroClipsChannel just search in english

[@nigelsheffield1879]

Hey DT! You are looking straight at me! I miss your right ear! Seriously though, I have learned so much from you. Thank you so much.

[@IsusVonBier]

"If we hit 100k.." *double ad*

[@rdqsr]

0:19 Re: Brave. You can also get a couple links to the source repo in the "About Brave" screen.

[@Regexion]

Yeah, the GitHub link is also in the footer of their website. Whoever posted that question did a very poor job of actually looking for it.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

5:40 I use Claws. The fact that it doesn’t render HTML I see as a feature, not a bug.

[@aa-vb9tj]

why?

[@ahmadshahzad6674]

There's nothing wrong with rendering HTML/CSS, they can't hurt you. JavaScript is the problem.

[@vitiok78]

I always forget to do manual backups. That's why I've installed Timeshift. And it saves my life periodically.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

To D.T., You and I have one thing in common. We do modern-day typing, which is called "keyboarding." I do not own a smartphone, but I do have a flip phone with a small screen that is no larger than one inch tall nor wide. I have been an avid typist since I was 12 years old. I am considering switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, because I do not prefer to replace my hardware again, since 2017. The only drawback of making a change is that the change may be unlikely for me. I replaced my old Cybernet Windows computer with the Dell Inspiron that I have now. If I need LibreOffice, it needs three applications: A [relational] database like Microsoft Access; a desktop publisher like Microsoft Publisher, and a desktop manager with an electronic mail application like Microsoft Outlook. I depend on my computer that I call my "keyboard," even more than on my own self.

[@elimgarak3597]

Regarding the first question. A protip: using apt-get source will download the source code. I assume something similar is built into other package managers.

[@MarioBasic]

Have you seen mudita phone? It has an open source OS, you can call, text, listen to music and use it as a hotspot. It has no internet browser. It has an e-ink display and battery lasts for weeks.

[@ArsenGaming]

Arch hasn't really broken much for me either, other than on my chromebook, but that is to be expected given how I shoehorned it into working with a bunch of scripts I wrote in an hour.

[@farokrachid]

thanks DT, for real my machine is very very stable after switching to Arch distro

[@mikemarcum9407]

I used Thunderbird on two occasions and both times it stopped executing my mail filters. Both times I tried a lot of the different alternatives and always ended up using evolution. I love evolution and it's the most 'thunderbird like' which made me happy.

[@hankkingsley9183]

A year later do you still hold this opinion of Evolution?

[@nemonada3501]

I've also seen some people have to apply for those plaques themselves. It doesn't appear to be automatic for everyone.

[@fahimshahriar2154]

Hey DT, 200K completed. Let us see you to grow your hair! :'D

[@JosephSaintClair]

Good vid. With email clients, it seems like many like claws, silpheed have slowed dev compared to years ago. I personally find email clients a huge mess. Especially for those who want to go full Linux for work, personal, community related work like sports clubs. With a mix of technologies like exchange servers, o365, gmail, etc and mfa, it’s a bit of a hit and miss journey to get it all working the most ideal way. Regarding phones, privacy is becoming a thing, and many seem to be hoping that Linux phones will become more mainstream and privacy preserving in comparison to Android/iOS based phones. Interesting times. Lastly... remember when before OpenOffice, it was called StarOffice... a whole 70MB download over a 28.8Kbps modem?! 😂

[@owendavidmalicsi5900]

Damn.. I just realized, I'm bingewatching Hey DT videos for a while today

[@reesericdotci]

I really like snapdrop as a tool for moving files around between devices. Its kinda like airdrop. Also syncthing is a good lighter solution than nextcloud.

[@kp1498]

Actually, Mailspring is not FOSS. It's Electron-based frontend is, but the sync engine itself is closed source. What's more, Mailspring has some privacy-unfriendly features like tracking whether the recipient has opened an email, which Thunderbird can circumvent.

[@capiche7]

Damn, just saw the MasterCase in the background. Lovely!

[@yueyu9762]

Let's go 200K!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

15:39 If you kept your user files on a separate partition, then you could reformat and reinstall the OS partition without touching them.

[@seraph_86]

you hit 200.000 DT it's time lol..

[@jgj4430]

DT - A good recco for a Low Cost budget phone with good software update support - Nokia. 3 years Security Updates and 2 years of version updates. And they still have MicroSD card slots. This year, they are releasing 5G variants. As long as u r not on Verizon, you should be fine.

[@LloydLynx]

I get that major/minor breakage thing. I use this one kernel module that sometimes needs to be recompiled and reinstalled after a kernel update. Me 2 years ago would be freaking out and unable to fix it, me nowadays has the issue fixed in less than 5 minutes every time.

[@ewiem4351]

Open Office was based on Star Office. I still have a copy of OS/2 somewhere that shipped with a copy of Star.

[@andx4024]

VERY INTERESTING. BRAVE OPEN SOURCE....

[@jhondoux84]

........YEP.......

[@aphextwin8520]

IT IS INDEED INTERESTING...

[@kenfuller9907]

Come on DT. At least a trombone fanfare for 100k

[@DistroTube]

Actually, I just bought a harmonica and am attempting to learn it. Maybe the Free Software Song performed on the harmonica? Hmm...

[@NL00iemand00NL]

Hey DT, I'm new to linux and your channel is a great help! You should try a fairphone if you can get it, assight from being fixable it has just default android running so no samsung apps you cant remove. You can also run Ubuntu Touch and some other OS on it and be the purest linux user ever :)

[@raymondgradzewicz]

Repeat after me guys, DT is not bald. He is shaved, not bald there's a difference.

[@soulofhogwarts]

Am I the only one missing unfettered freedom?

[@Johnvardas]

Replacement for Thunderbird: emacs - mu4e. No trolling

[@muchospantaloons]

i use userland.app to bring cli-debian on　 my phone .. with bluetooth keyboard .. pretty fine to paste things from sns to cli .. but the only sad thing is that i cannot get audio in cli :(

[@reesericdotci]

+1 for mailspring, its great!

[@reesericdotci]

@Srikar N yes it is

[@DolphVS]

Even having all their source code available would not make it "Open Source". "Open Source" is a term used for projects which have a license which is recognized by the "Open Source Initiative" as "open source". That is what makes them open source; not more not less. A list of the appropriate licenses can be found here: opensource.org/licenses. An recent example is the switch of the license of Elasticsearch. Their code will be public in the future and can be used to build it yourself. But they will publish it under the SSPL license, which is not recognized by the "Open Source Initiative" and this means it is _not_ "open source".

[@kenfuller9907]

Get an old Nokia. No tracking. Makes calls and texts. Bullet proof.

[@NeptuneSega]

Still track you through triangulation of towers

[@BR7Fan71]

I love librewolf.

[@Fanmind]

Hey DT, what are your thoughts about systemd-homed and will you be using it instead of doing home directory backups like you do now ?

[@twb0109]

You mentioned Geary, it's a great program

[@tarpan360]

For me Geary is still feature-poor and with some irritating features: no read-receipt, special folders at the end of the folder list (why?), and - the thing I find most irritating is that when you have an active thread, all new messages in that thread are automatically marked as read - this caused me a lot of trouble when I didn't notice the arrival of an important message. All this makes Geary unusable for me.

[@eeaaay]

Hey DT! The place where your video is located on the cloud server, this is a bad option! There are many more options, including cloud solutions too !!

[@ahmadshahzad6674]

I have a small feature phone that makes calls and messages. It can't track ya if it don't got the feature.

[@anikbiswasarnob]

Hey DT, have you ever used SeaMonkey internet suit? It has everything built-in a mail client also.

[@danduby8416]

Seamonkey was a great browser that I have used for a long time, but I stopped using it because I couldn't find an ad blocker that worked on it.

[@Tn5421Me]

Sylpheed is nice, but it doesn't do anything with html email which is sometimes necessary unfortunately.

[@jameshagooddesigndevelopme7819]

I moved to mailspring from thunderbird

[@edjupp6643]

i did too.

[@oglothenerd]

Hey DT, I have to use Discord. I wish I didn't... do you know of any open source Discord clients?

[@noah8351]

Thunderbird is also cross platform software. It is available also for Windows

[@jons2447]

Hey, DY!; Thank you for all you do. Some recommend mutt for email on linux. Share your opinion, please. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!

[@donaldc3884]

So is Vivaldi safe to use then? I've been using it and it works great so far. As for Mozilla, I'll say it again, dig deep and look at who is financing them now, Mozilla should not be used any longer, uninstall it.

[@ehhwhatevericantthinkofago8903]

Its safe to use, and you can even compile it if you want (DT was kinda wrong saying that you can't), there is probably a bit of telemetry but that's nothing worse then something like brave. The only issue with Vivaldi is they only release the source code for the second newest version which means the browser is just barely not open source. Also some of there code is proprietary, but all that code is for theming, so its not like there slipping anything spooky in there.

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work Thank you

[@Puzzlers100]

9:04 - I have termux. I've found it to be almost pointless. my problem with it is that it seems to really be boxed in, much closer to running a VM of linux rather than acutally being a terminal for the phone. The keyboard issue is interesting, but I have a BBKeyOne so I do have a physical keyboard on my phone, so no complaints there really.

[@BrK0511]

Hey DT! Can u pls describe some minor breakages using arch and how to solve them? Ty!

[@sillyness3456]

In terms of Android phones, you can’t go wrong with Google Pixel, they have the longest support period (3 years) besides the iPhone (5 years). And unlike Samsung, you can install GrapheneOS on it, which is a hardened AOSP OS, which only uses FOSS apps, doesn’t track and doesn’t even require a login.

[@thebearjew8463]

I use Syncthing for backups. It’s incredible. It copies based on sector level not file level, and syncs like a torrent. Desktop, laptop with a server as the middle man

[@adcock3764]

Hey DT, what software do you use for editing your videos?

[@adcock3764]

@Heitor Augusto Lopes Nunes Thanks

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Hey, idk if you're aware of this but Samsung phone batteries are expanding again after a while. Keep an eye on yours. Seems to be related to age related to electrolyte degradation. Your model is one of the ones known to do this. Just keep an eye on it. I bet you'd love a Light Phone tbh. Basic, minimal frills, not nearly as expensive. Just an idea in case you ever need an upgrade because of the battery nonsense. :)

[@cicada-ft6eb]

What do you think about deepin system monitor? how i can install it in my ubuntu so i can see apps internet bandwith

[@JHACbiz]

Been using Mailspring for about a week at the office. So far I like it better than Thunderbird.

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

For end users, it doesn't matter. For those running a business and such, 99.9% are already either using MS Office or google.

[@StonerFromThe618]

i bought my galaxy A10e for 150 almost 2 years ago and its still going strong.

[@YuraJayRJay]

Hey, DT! Have you tried restic backup tool?

[@shahadat6372]

Hey DT, can you make a walkthrough for your setup, and the apps you use daily

[@benardis]

Hey, DT. What's the best way (CLI, GUI) to backup and restore all of my installed apps if I am going to move to a new computer- fresh install?

[@billfarley9015]

My car is very stable because every time it breaks down I know how to fix it. I wish someone would a video on Linux troubleshooting. It seems to be a forbidden topic.

[@ChrisVogtmann]

Hey DT, I’m on manjaro and run into software that the install script checks to see if I’m running Debian, Ubuntu, or RedHat like distros, and won’t install. It isn’t in the AUR either Are there any ways to fix that? Or just need to go through the script and do things manual? It would be neat to have a apt or dnf emulation over pacman

[@SFSAtlas]

If they offer source code follow the instructions to compile and you are ready in no time

[@rahulmutreja]

What's the issue with thunderbird email client?

[@theherk]

There isn't one. It is a contrived misinterpretation of a blog post from mozilla.

[@bruhintoshmoment3865]

@@theherk definitely not a misinterpretation if you ask me, they clearly stated their intentions on that blog post. "We need more than just deplatforming", the fact that they said they want to unmask advertisers AND the people who see those targeted ads? Does that sound normal to you coming from a company that's developing a damn browser? The one thing that's supposed to be your portal to any place that you feel you should be able to go to on the internet? It's hard to interpret it otherwise to be honest

[@edjupp6643]

it's ugly

[@theherk]

@@bruhintoshmoment3865 I have a more detailed comment on his original video that showed he didn't actually read the article, but in short the blog post doesn't say what he claimed it said, nor does it what you claim. "who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted", which you can disagree with, but it is fundamentally different than who is watching the ads. There is a difference between a list of people who saw an ad and who an ad is targeted toward. Further they don't just make a browser. The organization has done quite a bit for browsers, open source, and the apis that have improved the web over the years. Seeking transparency doesn't undo that.

[@linuxrant]

I see you have installed the Luke Smith config file on your face :)

[@brutkode]

Thanks

[@yiannifunataoldotcom]

I bought a used nexus 3 years ago for $100 and it's working great.

[@ahmadshahzad6674]

Nexus's the GOAT for me. My first Linux experience was a Unity version of Ubuntu - can't recall well the version - on my Nexus 7 1st gen after I shattered the display and the touch stopped working. Since I couldn't get it fixed because the display replacement couldn't be found anywhere in my country, I figured to use a hardware keyboard and mouse. That led me to installing a freaking linux OS on the Nexus 7. Getting the complete Chromium working on it was damn eye-opening. I even tried compiling LFS and some other software back then, but failed and rightfully so. That was around 7 or so years ago, and I am glad I went through that. Windows never made sense to me after the my first Linux experience.

[@plazmax]

Hello DT, what do you thik about "Google is limiting the ability of Chromium-based browsers to its Chrome-based API" ?

[@francoisbechet]

Tutanota is quite good too (even if it doesn't really replace thunderbird).

[@redname]

A video please about cinelerra kdnlive openshot pitivi or video editors on gnu system. Also krita/gimp vs photoshop. Thanks. I use gimp on my slackware machine

[@johnstreetman1403]

Hey DT have you ever thought about looking at Linux from scratch project and if so what is your ideas on that as a way of getting into Linux

[@dbadaddy7386]

I ran LibreOffice on a fairly powerful Windows system about 4-5 years ago, an i7, 24GB of RAM, and tried to open an Excel file. Consistently it would take 2 or 3 MINUTES for LibreOffice to open the file, while MS Office did so in seconds. There was nothing special about the Excel file, it was not particularly large, maybe 200K, or complex. I never did find out what the problem was so I deleted LibreOffice and went back to MS Office. I'm debating whether to use WINE to run MS Office or try to switch to LibreOffice for the linux system I hope to build.

[@TheCocoaDaddy]

You should look at a current version of LibreOffice. I know there have been problems opening some MS Office files BUT 4-5 years is a pretty long time so there's a chance whatever issue you had, with that Excel file, has been resolved.

[@justinhall3243]

I know Vivaldi is not completely open source but damn is it one fine browser.

[@tomuher4536]

Hey, DT - is there any good exchange email client? As far i know, there are only paid option, and there are not even not good enough. :(

[@bhumit070]

How about mailspring

[@digantchaudhury175]

i was using manjaro and suddenly the terminal stopped working i.e., i tried to open it but it didn't open. i restarted my system many times, and also reinstalled the terminal from the repository but still it wasn't working. i had to reinstall manjaro from scratch. any idea what had happened and any solution if the same arises in the future???

[@imhemish]

I don't take system backshots! Yes we dont want to backup the whole os which you can install again. just store your configs and your precious data such as photos, videos and doucments. You don't need to store the OS in backups!! It will eat disk space or degrade hard disk over years

[@himanshushukla6451]

Paint your hair pink. Now that's Hillarious!!

[@mizhimo]

I'm the guy who drops his phone at least 3 times daily and using a cheap Chinese phone(180 USD) for two years, with no major damage, except for cosmetic damage. The android skin is terrible but does its job.

[@DistroTube]

Avoid cheap LG phones. Ask me how I know. :D

[@potse]

I think the reason Brave doesn't mention it's open source is because of the common misconception that open source = unsecure

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I wonder what such people think of Microsoft’s increasing reliance on Open Source.

[@user-yo7hz8gw4t]

I haven’t heard that "unsecure" one, but I’ve already heard "open source = hard to use". I think they also do it because the main selling point of the browser for regular users isn’t being open source, it’s the built-in adblocker and better privacy by default (because regular users don’t want to have to configure something by themselves)

[@ManujChandra]

Could you please explain schttlebutt/patchwork/manyverse. Thanks. 🙏

[@OutreRim]

Any advice on what computer I should get just so I can get a feel for Linux ? ... Looking for something cheap but still good enough for me to have a play

[@edjupp6643]

I use hp laptop.

[@edjupp6643]

@spitemim Im using it since 2016.ive never faced such a thing

[@Ghostv33]

Libreoffice can't open my university cgpa calculation sheet :| Wps office onlyoffice others easily open it Still don't understand why :(

[@josephferren6372]

For 100k you should install Gentoo on your main production machine :) Jk use pure Debian

[@michaelbaker5070]

Do you know anything about Lebre office?

[@ritikeshpanda]

does any one know how to get up and down internet speed on dwm/spectrwm bar?

[@nevoyu]

Mmm, your backup solution doesn't quite for the bill for a proper backup

[@richardmonroe4208]

Not sure what is a "proper backup". I only need to back up my data (which includes .config files). It's just too easy to install/reinstall a Linux system.

[@edjupp6643]

I used to backup everything. i mean every single thing. but I said stop, why would I backup VLC 3.0 (just an example) when I would need my backup there'll be a VLC 3.2 out there. So I decided to backup ONLY my very important documents. my personal ones. So cloud service is a really good way to do so.

[@richardmonroe4208]

@@edjupp6643 Agree! I still use OneDrive (from my Windows days) and more recently got a good deal with pcloud. I also backup important docs, pictures, etc. to an external drive.

[@mawortz]

Brave was actually forked to Braver

[@nykal1510]

aerc is the best e-mail client.

[@HelvecioGomes]

I use Brave in both pc and phone.

[@tylerbrown9797]

Why nextcloud over syncthing?

[@CODOnlineInfoCODChina]

Sounds like you need a mid-range rugged phone since they have high durability and won't break easily.