Office Drama on macOS

Re:Office Drama on macOS by gruez on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:29PM (#24139373)

Yes, in the same sense that browsing the web with lynx is safer because there's no javascript to exploit. Some people even consider the lack of javascript to be a feature. If you're just opening documents for viewing/basic editing, you probably won't mind macros being missing. The bigger problem might be the inconsistent layout (and other compatibility issues) that you get.

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Re:Office Drama on macOS by EE84M3i on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:10AM (#24141057)

LibreOffice fully supports a lot of macro features, so I'm not sure what you're refering to about "macros being missing".

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Re:Office Drama on macOS by anthk on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:49AM (#24142343)

LO supports some macros.

Also, I use Lynx/Links+ (and a upgraded Netsurf) because of those JS pests.

So far I can:

- Use pleroma (Mastodon) from https://brutaldon.online. Much faster than any JS bloated platform. Images are viewed externally from sxiv, nothing is lost.

- Search YT from Idiotbox and playing the video with mpv + youtube-dl.

- Read Medium/Tedium general news articles without bogging my CPU down. Links -g supports images.

- Comment here.

- For Reddit I use either TUIR or Gopher.

- I can avoid all malicious cookies too by setting a different config file for links and tunneling it thru torsocks.

For DOCX/XLSX files, you can use antiword/wv and convert the DOC/X file to RTF and then open it under Ted (a really lightweight WP), and sc-im plus gnuplot for spreadsheets. Much faster and secure.

On potentially malicious PDF's and PostScripts, convert them into DJVU and use DJView to read them.

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