This is a huge opportunity. All of us Linux geeks now need to be on mainstream social media platforms and actively seek out and help everyone who expresses an interest in switching from Windows to Linux.

Okay, right, then my comment may be wrong (insofar as companies with >750 million revenue are concerned) or at least it will become wrong once the OECD agreement is implemented. (This government page from 5 November 2024 states 12.5% on revenue from trading.) Good to know, thanks.

Well, that’s nice and all, but the losses that the Irish tax haven model costs the rest of the continent – which by and large is no less willing to provide aid to poorer countries – are orders of magnitude higher.

Zuck and Pinchai right now googling “Ursula von der Leyen inauguration fund”

Well, shit. But at least there’s this:

It’s also far from clear that the tech industry will prove to be as hungry for fossil fuel power as some predict. First, advances in AI technology could drive energy consumption down. Concerns are emerging that the technology may not fully live up to the hype, at least from investors’ standpoints, with Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai telling a Hong Kong investment summit in March that data construction may have already reached “the beginning of some kind of bubble.” Plus, the Trump tariffs have injected extraordinary levels of uncertainty into global markets, leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.

I can’t help with personal experience unfortunately. I think some (a lot?) of people are satisfied, but one does need some tech skills to get it up and running.

Instructions are out there in various github repos, some of them also link to volunteer support channels.

Or instructions in German here: https://linux-content.org/so-installierst-du-affinity-photo-designer-und-publisher-unter-linux/

Worth noting: Affinity, while not open-source, can be brought to run under Linux. This may be helpful for people wanting to ditch Windows.

Yeah, and I get it: It’s absurd how difficult it is under Linux (or Windows I guess) to do find reliable programs to do basic things like rearranging PDF files (PDF Arranger is good) or compressing PDF files (haven’t yet found something better than the Ghostscript command from StackOverflow, even though there should be stuff out there?) or converting stuff to and from PDF.

Yeah, the Android alternatives I have in mind are LineageOS, GrapheneOS and /e/OS, but I’m not sure on how good their privacy is. Most importantly though, they’re often not available for older/non-mainstream smartphones.

So policy-wise, a useful step could be to get wider standardization of smartphone hardware, to reduce the efforts needed to port alternative OSs there.

Not having our cash transaction routed through US services is extremely significant in terms of privacy and autonomy.

We really should unironically and systematicaly slap all the Yankee slogans about freedom and democracy and being a beacon and stuff on pictures of EU flags and photos of our parliaments etc.