I worked for apple

It was creepy. I have been in litteral sex-cults that felt less cultish and close-minded.

Most likely, yes. Probably some sort of automation that ran wild.

It's also an argument for not having your own domain for emails, because you may one day loose that domain too, and someone could poach the domain to impersonate you.

Thunderbird, Mailo, Codeberg

I use Codeberg.

Edit: fixed the link.

I don't think anything in the software world has ever pissed me off as much as the fucking ribbon. "We've run out of ideas as far as the UI is concerned - just throw everything up there somewhere, menus, toolbars, whatever". A close second was their genius idea of hiding unused menu items so the locations of the items you do use are constantly changing.

I don't use MS products any more but my 90 yo parents do and it's a fucking nightmare trying to help them with stuff. MS Office is certifiable elder abuse.

I got recruited by Apple some years ago because of my Stack Overflow account. I'm glad I ignored them, although there's something to be said for an ungodly salary and Apple stock options.

The corporation built almost entirely out of copying Apple and buying up competitors to destroy them?

Ironically enough, their biggest failure to do this was when they let the iPhone (with the help of Android) bitch-slap Windows Mobile and Windows Phone out of existence.

Old news.

I am a newbie in LibreOffice, but I am wondering whether me chronicling my first experiences in it would be worth doing.

I think what we sorely lack is more people like Nick and Michael Horn making approachable tech news about this niche.

I understand that to some the idea itself of the tech news cycle, focused on its own navel all the time is not appealing, but I think that is exactly there that a channel like this could distinguish itself, showcasing OSS solutions having an impact on the public good, something the usual news outlets cannot afford to do since every second is lost revenue.

The only risk is being boring.

Big tech companies never had any CS people.

Link errors out when I try to open it

Office 97 was the last good Office. No auto-adjusting menus, no ribbons, you could actually provide phone support and have confidence that both people were seeing the same thing.

They're annoyingly only allowing open source repos and active forks etc..

I use posteo.de, rarely with the web interface though, I use software clients for email

I use posteo.de

Eat shit, microsoft

Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail's account recovery process.)

If large corporations have zero empathy for their competition, why do they have such an easy time coordinating raising grocery prices well above the free market optimum?

Large corporations are owned by capital holders. Often it's the same set of capital holders owning different corporations because they've diversified their assets. It is not in the interest of their owners to have a free market race to the bottom.

So they make deals. And when socialists force the government to forbid those deals, they find Schelling points where they can make deals without making deals. It's not collusion; it's covid supply issues; ask anyone. And with neoliberal/neocon dismantling of regulatory agencies they can just do it.

So they have empathy for other large corporations. But it goes further than that. At least for now, capital assets are still managed by people. Those people are flesh and blood. They eat, they socialize, they make friends, and they care about their friends and acquaintances. And this caring is embedded into the choices that they make at work, where they compete against their friends and acquaintances.

So large corporations have empathy not just for other corporations, but also for rich people in general. Golden parachutes, nepotist appointments, favors, massively overpaid C-suite execs and expensive consultancy jobs from each other's hobby projects.

Corporations bleed trillions of dollars for the sake of empathy with their competitors and with private individuals, they just won't accept a competitor to bourgeoisie hegemony.