Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back. And then the rest of us get better alternatives to this enshitification model.

Or Cardassian. Or Romulan. Both were fascist.

• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights
• https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/intro.6-2/ALDE_00000681/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bill-of-Rights-United-States-Constitution

Not M$ OneDrive, Google Drive, Apple Cloud, FB, Twitter… maybe TPB?

Direct violation of our 8th Amendment

I still have Azure certs, and Microsoft is still my job. But… if I can make my job moving others off Microsoft, many souls can be saved.

Not familiar enough with the differences. Plus I’ll learn it better if I have to figure out all the ways to do a task instead of just one. Nano or Emacs or Vim? KDE or Gnome? Too much to choose from! :)

All of them! I have Ubuntu 24LTS on my desktop, prepping Mint for a utility machine, testing Manjaro and Endeavor in VMs, not sure what distro I will move my laptop to yet.

Finally switching to Linux!

Venezuela also has a LOT of gold. Not just oil rich.

Looks like that may be happening already. Who gets to buy WB? Netflix, or David/Larry Ellison Skydance? One has promised to censor CNN.

Why do you think Chump forced ByteDance to sell to his US buddy? See above.

I don’t think that’s possible. So much is being spent on AI, that the amount of revenue it needs to generate is unreachable. Either lots of money starts coming in soon, or the ability to spend $100s of billions more evaporates. If the bubble were to continue for 10 years, it would have to have generated enough revenue to survive, while continuing to spend more than it could ever make.

But why agree to still broadcast it? Doesn’t sound like a very well thought out boycott. Instead, they should host their own Eurovision. With blackjack and hookers :)

You mean you don’t want to give the fascist David Ellison any money?!? Me either :)

A proper government would charge him and his shit AI with hate crimes. Too bad we don’t have one of those anymore.

White House backing another sexual predator. I so sick of this timeline.

Thank you. I liked KDE when I played with Mandrake many years ago. Does that still exist? Maybe just dated the last time I tried to run Linux as my primary. I have “supported” Linux as needed throughout the years, but mostly through competent searches and general IT knowledge.

Easy?!? We’re talking about breaking 30 years of habits :). But thank you for your response. Remote/RDP because I travel as much as possible (digital nomad currently in the Caribbean) and want to connect home while I’m out. Why hypervisor? Work. I tend to spin up a clean VM for each client, and sometimes need to test things. And my media server has a hardware RAID, but needs to move off NTFS. Probably the first machine I move to Linux.

Thanks. I’ve had a lifetime subscription to Plex for more than 10 years and it works well on TVs and such for the few ppl I share it with (they’re all luddites). I also.may have mis-typed, I have a hardware RAID 5 off a ?Perc5 controller, but its NTFS and I would want to switch.