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A Surprise Video from Veitch

Gray

15 Dec 2025 — 1 min read

I was not expecting to see this in my feeds, and it was a very welcome surprise. This man always manages to bring a smile to my face.

I was intrigued by this bit of news, where Schleswig-Holstein's LibreOffice migration is going well.

Something I constantly did at my previous employer was push the use of LibreOffice hard, wherever I could. If I was sharing my screen for any reason (often spreadsheet or document related), it would always be open in LibreOffice.

I hope they're thinking about that now.

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