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One of the crimes of modern imperative programming languages is not having ADTs (except maybe Rust) built-in. It is such a basic mental model of how humans think and solve problems. But instead we got inheritance and enums which are practically very primitive.

Using OnlyOffice promotes Microsoft Document format even further. Microsoft will again change their spec and OnlyOffice won't know how to render it correctly.

For long term, it's better to choose LibreOffice which uses open standards and does not purposefully change specs to break others.

I deleted my Reddit account long back after they blocked VPNs. I used old.reddit.com usually from DDG or Google search results. Now this is fucked up. I am not able to access Reddit through either VPN or Tor. They are dead to me now.

I just want a solution to completely remove Reddit links from appearing in search results. Anyone has any solution?

I'm very skeptical of installing apps to access Email or VPN. If the company turned evil tomorrow, apps can turn into malware.

Always use standard protocols using free software to transfer data over Internet. Use Thunderbird or Wireguard/OpenVPN client. Worst case you will give out data specific to that service. Don't encourage "apps" over protocols.

flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works

You are right. Besides proprietary app store, Snap lacks even basic sandboxing in non-Debian based distros. I can't believe that Canonical engineers thought this was a good idea when designing a cross platform packaging format.

Flatpak got everything right from it's initial design. Multiple repositories, Sandboxing that actually works in any Linux distro, OSTree to reduce disk space usage etc.