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Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail. (videos.abnormalbeings.space)
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[–] 117 points 1 year ago (22 children)

It's different this time around.

The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,

This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.

I reckon it's serious this time.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    People are serious, I've never seen so many new users in the Linux groups I'm in

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Life long windows user. I switched to Arch a few months ago and I'm not looking back. Will only be using windows in a sandboxed VM if absolutely necessary. Which, I haven't needed to yet.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Life long windows user. I switched to Arch

    Fuck. That's like going straight from English breakfast tea to hash oil.

    I've been using Linux almost exclusively both in my personal and professional life for a decade and a half. I only installed Arch a month or two ago.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Hell, I'm in Silicon Valley here in California, and some of my friends are also jumping off the proprietary ship because those large firms are willing to work hand in hand with federal agencies.

    If you've read the NSA document disclosures by Edward Snowden, it's apparent that there is an open door for data requests. The current administration isn't a huge fan of California's diversity, so we might as well minimize our chances of being targetted...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Other countries like that and Europe deals with are: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia and of course, China.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    [Some*] Europeans just can’t get over their Arab and Muslim-hate despite neither Qatar nor Saudi Arabia posing any threat to Europe and actually being good trading partners. No tariffs, no restrictions, no unfair competition. They adopt many European standards and are a huge market for European goods and services. Yet still the hate is constantly being peddled.

    * hopefully a minority but the hate seems to be universal regardless of the political leaning.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Are they democracies? No. Do they respect human rights? Also no.

    I don't care as much about them as I care about pointing out the hypocrisy of my people. I have a thing against islam but that has nothing to do with this conversation.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You must have forgotten about why people were so mad at qatar in particular a while back. Remember how many workers died building the stadiums there for the world cup? If you're american i can understand you weren't aware of it since european football isn't exactly popular in america, but it was a huge deal over here with people protesting.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The digital dependence on the US is much like the energy dependence on Russia.

    Europe is ditching Russian energy. They may ditch US tech.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't know about the whole Europe but Spain is buying more energy from Russia than before the war and sanctions.

    Don't get me wrong, I hope that would be the case but Europe is also Corporativist.

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  • [+] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    The European Union regulates the market so much it's hard to call it capitalism, the biggest european companies are basically EU projects like Airbus (every government funds it) or too big too fail like Siemens and/or they would use: "strategic industry" and be done with it.

    Edit oh and I almost forgot it, or they are like Inditex, basically not European it's just an European getting rich while exploiting poor people all around the world, but I think this is actually capitalism and that guy isn't exactly appreciated by ruling dictator, I mean party, in Spain.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm putting my money on the EU becoming just as openly Fascistic as the US and sticking with Microsoft.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People are downvoting you, but they're too scared to actually argue against it. I'm obviously hoping this isn't the case, but you'd be sticking your head in the sand if you said there was no chance of it happening.

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