Banning vpns is an authoritarian move for a country. No matter which country.

I’m pirating because its free, I guess that makes me an asshole.

Those repackages of libreoffice packages are actually official.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

These versions are free software (as in open source) but there’s a small charge to cover the effort of putting software in the app stores, and to help develop the software (and build our communities).