Does GCC support pluggable backends? I feel when something like this comes up, the real answer should be, for those that make sense to drop from the core, it’d make sense to make them pluggable and separate them out, so that those that need them can pick them up if they need.

Can’t libre office’s calc work with Excel files?

Yeah. I had this problem. I ended up switching out the WiFi module for one with better Linux support. (In my laptop it’s just a little m.2 thing).

The simplest and slowest way when you need to use something from the system clipboard:

Copying: Enter visual mode (v) Highlight the text I want to copy then enter in command mode "+y which basically means “Use a register for following command (”) make it the external clipboard register (+) and yank/copy (y)"

Pasting Move to where I want to paste then enter in command mode "+p to paste after the current position or "+P to paste before the current position

If I don’t need to copy/paste stuff to applications outside of vim, then I can skip the "+ register setting part, and just use the default internal register.

Well, being open minded doesn’t mean you won’t reject something, just that you won’t reject something without mulling it over first. I’m sure their desire to not want to create account is not a flippant remark and a position they arrived at over time.

Another alternative, I’ve been looking at is radicle. It’s private repository stuff is rough, but public repository stuff, much less so. Seems to be early days but I really like what the project is doing.

Ultimately you get something interesting out of rofi by creating scripts that call it every time a user needs to select something. Your Reddit example would be trivial to do, at least core functionality wise, if not exact key presses.

Well from their site

Moderation

Since there are no global admins, the administrative control of a subplebbit rests solely with its creator. No one else can moderate content or accounts unless the subplebbit creator grants them permission.

So, it’s not that there’s no moderation. It’s just “subplebbit” creator/delegates controlled as there is no over arching site wide company able to moderate it on the whole.

It will mean, as a user, you’ll have to be liberal with removing subplebbits from your own feed though. I’m sure there will be some… not so pleasant subplebbits appearing.

Conservatives? The UK’s current government is not a conservative one.

Though I don’t think the political leaning of the party in power matters here, as this is what governments do in general. Find ways, and justifications, to expand the scope of their power, often by using “desiring safety for insert demographic here (usually children)” and managing to get it through. Often without thinking what future, potentially more tyrannical governments, might do with that power.

If you are on Linux locally, you could try using sshfs, to “mount” the remote system to your local one and use your local dev tools. Though I suspect that would be against the spirit of what company is hoping for.