Tax big tech; Ban Facebook and X; Impose the same 10/25% on everything; Sell US treasuries.

I’m well aware it would hurt us as well, but we passed that point where we had a choice

Do Russians have any subsea cables? If you see what I mean. Making the captain accountable would yield nothing.

I’m waiting to see Jolla and HMD Global joining forces and forming a decent size European mobile manufacturer

To be fair, if you don’t want to buy Chinese motors, then the only option is the US. Maybe Taiwan, but that I would not call a very secure supply chain either. Hard to believe but there doesn’t seem to be a single manufacturer in Europe that produces drone motors

Hungarian here. I hate Orbán. But calling anyone and everyone a fascist just because you don’t like her/him is turning this platform a joke

Downdetector was down again for a while. The main news site in Hungary wasn’t, seems like they got rid of cloudflare completely after the last outage.

I’m quite new to this field, but I found eurocircuits.com before that seemed European. Is that a different service?

In Hungary: Allegro, Alza, Emag. Alza has next day delivery, Amazon doesn’t

Funny when downdetector is down because they use cloudflare

Parrot 🦜 is french and they should have something similar

I get the FOMO about having their own AI, but in my books making Drive usable and having a Linux app for drive would be way higher on the priority list. Get the basics right first.

This price point makes me wonder what the purpose is: do they really have such a large user base that their 1 EUR/year subscription will add significant funds to develop the app further? I doubt. In which case the only effect will be to lose users who refuse to pay. Disclaimer: I use their app for navigation and I quite like it

Would you mind sharing why Linux is not an option? I’m planning to switch a fintech team of 20 to Ubuntu and wondering if I missed anything when doing the PoC

I’ve got mine on https://www.gentlemanstore.hu/kiegeszitok-1/ It wasn’t more expensive than buying direct

Well I know for medium and large companies it may not be easy, depending on what cloud services they currently use. But for micro and small companies, that use cloud storage, and maybe some virtual machines in the cloud, there is no excuse. A Linux VM is a Linux VM no matter whether it is hosted on Aws or OVH cloud

Companies have the option to migrate to EU providers to avoid the taxes on their infrastructure. Yes I know it’s not that easy. Bite the bullet or pay the tax.

The aim of the initiative would be to express to the EU commission the citizens desire to become less dependent on the big tech companies. I appreciate the complexity you mention, but it would be the commission to work out what is achievable or not. My view is that everything is, it’s just the question of timeframe. There are areas, e.g. my school example, that would be easier to transform, other areas as you say more difficult. But we need to drive this and keep on the pressure, otherwise nothing will change. It’s already great to see that we are talking about it

Yes, but extend it to school education as well. Governments are spending millions if not billions to purchase laptops with Windows for schools. Why can’t we teach our kids the basic digital skills on Linux? If their first experience is with Linux, they will stick to that.

“No OS” will not make it to the average internet user, which is 99% of the population. If they have to select, they will select windows. The remaining 1% will figure it out, but that 1% won’t make any impact. We need a model that would pave the way for Linux to the average internet user.

The issue is that 99% of people don’t want to install an OS, they just want to have a computer that they can use as is. I’m not saying my proposal would be ideal, but something needs to change in the current model otherwise in 10 years time we will still be whining about Microsoft’s 90% market share