Yeah I agree there is good competition in that market these days, even if the transition work is costly. I’m sure a lot of companies are doing the math of paying the Broadcom VMWare tax Vs transitioning all their infrastructure

But Broadcom does do software now, they bought VMWare in 2023, and implemented aggressive license changes. From the article:

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and the subsequent price hikes haven’t gone down well with all customers, to the point that many have been considering alternatives. Thierry Carrez, general manager of the foundation behind one such alternative, OpenStack, told The Register: “Broadcom’s handling of VMware is a good example of the risk of trusting your infrastructure software fate to a single vendor. Those companies can be bought, can change direction, can change licensing terms anytime they want.”

“Broadcom continues to tighten the screws on Europe’s cloud infrastructure sector,” said CISPE.

I’m with you on the poorly worded headline. I couldn’t parse that sentence either

On the other hand, seeing this symbol more and more on other random videos outside that bubble does give a very nice sense of “I am not alone”. It does more for users to find eachother than it does damage to big corpos.

But choice of the symbol itself is questionable… Why use a big tech symbol to protest big tech? -__- And not just any big tech, but super evil 90s monopolistic giant Microsoft

There’s a nice cartoon in this thread we’re clippy is if he could have, he would have harvest all your data.

Good news: Firefox on Android supports extensions, including uBlockOrigin

Though Im in the same camp, much prefer desktop over mobile for big purchases, banking, or anything that feels important

What timeline is this? xD If anything, Microsoft is less hostile these days than they were in the 90s and early 2000s

Fair enough, and clippy was indeed trying to be helpful, no matter how misguided xD

Did you look in to Zim Desktop Wiki? https://zim-wiki.org/

It stores articles in zim (plaintext) files rather than .md (plaintext) files, but otherwise it’s an excellent FOSS cross platform

Edit: never mind, zim also doesn’t have an Android client. The closest is https://github.com/gsantner/markor which understands Zim syntax

Or build more datacenters in the cold north, or near coastlines. Datacenters don’t necessarily need loads of fresh water.

For example https://greenmountain.no/about-us/

Using a mascot from big tech to protest against invasive big tech is tad confusing…

I had the original Jolla phone back in 2014, it was quite a cool device.

Ultimately it suffered from a lack of apps, and the Android compatibility was functional but a bit janky. There was an incredibly good native WhatsApp app, untill WhatsApp killed it for not being official.

Hope they have some success with the new one

Doesn’t most non-anglo European countries use proportional representation?

Isn’t fwupd already included in SteamOS? Or is there a specific 8bitdo fwupd tool?

Also it’s only a tax on overnight stays. Which some small towns and rural counties overwhelmed by day-travelers are not happy about.

And Iceland! More islands more better

I haven’t seen it mentioned here, so just an FIY: Linux Mint is a “regular” distro, while Bazzite is an immutable distro, meaning the root filesystem is read-only.

That means a lot of the “normal” ways of doing stuff you find online will need to be done differently. For example installing system level packages requires a reboot, to boot in to the new “system image”. If something gets booked you can reboot in to an old system image to recover. Regular desktop (Flatpak) apps can be installed without rebooting.

Bazzite is based on Fedora, and very similar to Fedora SilverBlue (immutable version). So if you can’t find answers when looking online “how to do X in Bazzite” try instead “how to do X in SilverBlue”.

And FYI Linux Mint comes with an easy to use app Timeshift for system level backup and restore (by default it does not backup your documents etc in your HOME folder). Very handy to recover from a borked update or installing something you shouldn’t have.

Ugh, me neither. Bought by Snap-On according to Wikipedia:

Bahco is a Swedish brand within the hand tool industry, which is now part of SNA Europe, part of Snap-on.

Same for Cocraft as far as I know (Clas Ohlson white label)

No, full stack made in Europe. From silicon (microchips) upwards. Including cloud platforms, e-commerce, AI, and more.

Hopefully they’ll funnel a lot of investment in to growing and adopting existing open source projects from Europe.
Image for example if all EU institutions used their Office 365 license fees and instead invested in LibreOffice development, and all adopted LibreOffice

SingleFile provides a faithful representation of the original webpage, so bloated webpages are indeed saved as bloated html files.

On the plus side you’re getting an exact copy, but on the downside an exact copy may not be necessary and takes a huge amount of space.