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Let’s not forget genocide enablers with Germany in front.

I’m sure you have done plenty more, right?

It depends on your use case I’d say. I’m replacing outlook with possibly Thunderbird or just web interface when it comes to exchange. I don’t use word, instead markdown for simple documents or typst for more complex ones. Instead of PowerPoint I’ll use JavaScript/html based presentation engines and instead of excel, I don’t know yet, perhaps LibreOffice equivalent. But then again, I’m more a developer than content creator.

TL;DR when it comes to word like documents, check out typst. It requires a shift, but you might like it.

I for one am ditching Windows and Office which I’ve been using professionally since Windows 3.0. It’s the year of the Linux for me. As per data in US clouds (even hosted in EU), it was never safe.

So much this ^^^. If Ukraine is blackmailed to give land away, then we are all screwed because even this leftover of international law crumbles. The Orange doesn’t care at all, all he sees are possible deals with Putin and profits by Ukraine extortion.

That’s certainly a fair point. However, being 100% dependent on an external monopoly is strategically and mid-term problematic. Once they acquire a monopoly status, they can raise prices, stop innovating and have a leverage on you - classic monopoly cons.

But it is really a wise decision not taking countermeasures and sweet-talking to a bully once he slaps you? What do you think this attitude signals to the said bully?

That’s true, they are subsidizing your country. The problem at hand is that they are also destroying your industry, which is very bad in long term. When others industry is gone , they have a monopoly.The same supplies applies to car industry, specifically EVs.

AFAIK not. They “wanted” to, but then paused them all together, while orange retained initial ones. 🤷‍♂️

For starters implement reciprocal tariffs. Which we only virtually did only to pause them to not anger the orange. Next, don’t visit the orange nor start talking with him. It’s like China says, he should start conversation.

I wish EU was capable of similar attitude as China instead of digging our hole by trying to appease the Orange liar in chief no matter what.

There are no not-evil countries. That said, China is lesser evil, way nowmore stable and predictable of the two if handled properly.

I bet on Trump to ruin world industry and thus eliminate a lot of co2 emissions.

I bet on Trump to ruin world industry and thus eliminate a lot of co2 emissions.

EU joins the chat

Didn’t they already do that only to unfreeze them for support on passing some pro Ukraine resolution it or smth?

Mac laptops are currently the best in both performance and battery life categories at least. They are also very well built and everything mostly works. That said I’d still buy a Linux one today, but I’m not your average user where Linux still has to catch up.

“Nobody said it could be done in 12 hours” - Rubio 🤦‍♂️

Yeah, not really. If you look at CPUs, there is no equivalent to modern CPUs in China, they all lag many years behind and taiwanese production line is restricted to them. Eventually China might catch up and surpasse US, but not in the near future as it takes enormous resources including time.