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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 01:00:23 JST silverwizard

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   @float13 This feels like the kind of situation where a piece of software removing a footgun makes it less able to shoot me in the foot, but I'm less able to do clever things?
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     I am Jack's Lost 404 (float13@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 01:00:24 JST I am Jack's Lost 404

     Yikes. LibreOffice Calc will let you to open 2 copies of the same file at the same time.

     Then it gives a cryptic error message about "another user editing the same file" when you try to save conflicting changes.

     Not sure if this is a bug. But it feels like a bug.

     Typically if I accidentally double-click on the same file to open it, I'd expect the software to transparently pop up the already-open one, not transparently open a second copy full of destructive potential...