It's funny. As much as I detest DJT and all the terrible things he's brought to the world order/markets/general stability, I do have to be thankful that he's helped spur on digital sovereignty and sparked a revival in independence rather than US hegemony. It's also a shame, but the US has proved itself too volatile and an unstable partner.
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People always find it strange when I say the biggest reason for womens liberation happening is because of hitler, but it's true.
Prior to America entering WWII, men went to work, women stayed home and did the dishes. That's just how life was.
Then all the men needed to go overseas. But that left huge holes in the domestic workforce. Life simply couldn't move forward without someone to stock the shelves of a grocery store, or fix cars, or drive the city bus. Work that up until then was historically men only. But....there were not enough men between 1941-1945 to fill the roles across all forms of work, but work needed to get done.
So women were brought into temporarily fill the roles until the men got back.
Then the war ends, the men come back, and suddenly the women don't want to go back home and do dishes. So now you've got women back home, who want to be back at work, and men at work seeing more and more women not leaving.
And over the next decade or so, more and more women either never left the workplace, or came back to work. And then you had the homes where the men wouldn't let their wives work. Which caused fights. And even though they were individual fights, these same fights were happening all over the country. As more women realized they aren't alone, it became less of a fight with your husband, and more of a fight against traditional gender norms. And thus the womens liberation movement really gained traction.
And it all goes back to hitler creating the environment that allowed the whole butterfly effect to start.
And thats what you're seeing with trump and linux.
Hitler didn't give a damn about womens rights. But butterfly effect, he's the biggest reason it happened.
Trump doesn't give a damn about Linux, but here we go again.
poison is generally bad but if it kills the cancer they call it chemotherapy i guess! ha.
It's finally the year of the Linux Desktop! And all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
But hey,... progess! The more penguins, the better.
all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Absolutely wild brand activation tactics from the Linux marketing team.
Linux's message to the world: "The I-Told-You-So's Shall Continue Until Installation Rates Improve."
we brought this upon ourselves by failing to listen to the FOSS gods.
What does he play?
I have read items like this for years about some jurisdiction in Europe switching to FOSS. These things take a long time to implement, lot of retraining of people that have used MS for decades. The cost is significant since you still need to pay the license fees and have support during the transition.
In this case it's the entire government top-down. It's not just a jurisdiction. They have probably weighed the cost benefits of transitioning vs throwing money at Microsoft forever
The French are doing the right thing. Getting independent from the US software dominance takes time and the US regime could decide any day to use it stupidly and brutally. I just wish my government had as much foresight.
My take on it: most people do have foresight or at least understand the issue, but they still don't act on it or ignore it as long as the status quo is still convenient enough. So it's purely a matter of pain and inconvenience. Once enough pain and inconvenience has accumulated, they're much more ready to make an actual switch. Thankfully, with Microsoft's services also becoming increasingly enshittified (forced AI chatbot integrations everywhere, even more cloud dependencies, ever more expensive subscriptions, ...) there's also Microsoft shooting itself in the foot a bit in order to accelerate this process. Vile actions from the current US regime are also accelerating the process of course.
The French Revolution 2.0 where is the Person who says: if they dislike Microsoft why dont they use mac?
probably getting shouted down by the french policymakers who made this decision along the lines of "Apple is an American company too and we're SICK OF AMERICA'S SHIT"
Sorry, sorry. I overslept.
Let them use Mac!