[libreoffice-users] and then the final drop?

And then I edit an embedded image using "external editor" and it opens 
in Gwenview and I push it forward to GIMP because Gwenview sucks for 
editing. And I save the file in GIMP and LibreOffice crashes with "bad 
alloc" and it takes my text with it because the recovery doesn't 
actually recover the text I had and this is fucking pointless.

I am seriously going to remove this program from my computer once I have 
no longer a need to write and read and print older ODT documents.

It will have to be Google Docs then or something else, I don't know, 
maybe move to Windows. And just purchase office or something. It might 
work nicely, I don't know, I haven't used it in 16 years. Google Docs 
can print to PDF just fine, it might be a horrible environment but at 
least it is not going to crash and even though saving automatically at 
every change is not really my cup of tea so far I will have great undo 
functionality as well because every browser has that and Google Docs as 
well.

Maybe I should just get a tablet to do my word processing indeed. Then I 
can use Microsoft Office on the tablet and save to the cloud and keep 
using Linux. Or that doesn't work because then I will have a hard time 
adding content in the form of pictures to it, I don't know. Not if I 
onedrive them first, which I can do on Linux.

Having endless amounts of work destroyed by a program is not my cup of 
tea either.

There are enough destabilizing influences in my life, I don't need 
another one in the form of a failing text editor, but then, what 
actually works these days? Not much.

This document was not older than 5 or 10 minutes, not older than 5 
minutes perhaps, but I cannot reproduce text. The horror this causes is 
just unimaginable. I am writing court documents and the like and 
valuable time is getting lost constantly. Linux is not dependable to 
begin with but this just does it, you know.

I would probably have been sitting on roses had this thing actually 
worked. And now it is hell.

Maybe that's not fair because life is what it is, and progress is 
measured in millennia, not days. But it is what it is. But I wish some 
people would just go hang themselves to send a message to the world, or 
maybe be hanged and liberate valuable resources for someone else to do 
the thing right, I don't know. Maybe that's not fair either because this 
product originated with someone else, but they were never very good at 
it to begin with ;-).

I am constantly astounded by how much faith I put in these programs and 
they constantly keep failing and yet I do not learn. I am betrayed time 
and time again by stuff that doesn't work as it was advertized and 
another hour of my time was lost, or maybe more, maybe a few days, maybe 
a few years, I don't know yet. That same time that could earn millions 
and pay for the development of a software suite many times over ;-) (if 
more people did it).

And in this way the poverty of the software creates its own poverty. But 
enough of this rant.

As always, I'm sorry I came here. I need to leave.

Goodbye.

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