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[–] 12 points 1 hour ago

USA just switched off starlink in Ukraine. They blocked Microsoft accounts and visa cards from ICC members. You can't rely on USA tech. It's got a killswitch and a madman ready to push the button.

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    [–] 12 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

    Microslop is a security risk. An OS with a backdoor isn't useful for anything but gaming.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    Why would you want a backdoor on the OS of your gaming machine?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    I don't and it sounds like I might not have to soon. Mslop had us by the balls for long enough.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    I agree. Digital sovereignty is important for the EU. The less we are in the pocket of the US the better.

    Digital anarchy is important for the regular people. The more you take technology in your own hands, the less you are at the whims of centralised services.

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    I wonder if the tech companies will realize their bending to Trump is going to shoot them in the ass

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  • [–] 64 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

    Now if they also directed the license cost savings back toward funding their newly chosen oss projects, we'd be golden.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Imagine. Companies that instead pay X amount pay X*.25 or something. Small cost for the business compared to Microsoft and huge boost in revenue to improve OSS.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    B-but a study funded by CCIA Europe (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta…) says EU cloud sovereignty rules would cost Europe up to €233 billion. (Conveniently, it doesn't count the benefits of not depending on them.)

    So considerate of them, worrying about our wallets out of pure altruism.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 hours ago (9 children)

    They should consider LibreOffice if they don’t need cloud features.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    They can consider LibreOffice if they need cloud features, with collabora and nextcloud.

    It's way more complicated to deploy rather than just paying $60/user/month for Microsoft 365 E5, but nextcloud and collabora sell commerciale support, others sell managed instances, Germany is selling opendesk as a saas, and al on

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  • [–] 18 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

    Thing is, cloud features are very good for being productivity. And also for minimising mistakes, because you dont have multiple copies.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    Long before clouds was a thing we had servers and local networks and shared drives. We still have servers and private vpns to connect to them to access shard drives.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 hours ago

    I agree. "The cloud" is just the same shit but someone else is running it and it has a web based UI. There's also ways to make libreoffice collaborative too hiw m365 office is. We don't need it.

    I called this over a decade ago. Embrace, extend, extinguish, now all the prices hike what seems like quarterly or biannually. Such a joke.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago

    Sure, and maybe even some kind of suvversion system could lock one user out while the other is doing work, to avoid the kinds of conflicts that we're talking about here.

    All of that is a hard sell versus the experience of dropping into a document and seeing three cursors all entering data collaboratively, a la Google Sheets.

    And I'm writing this to someone that's trying to make myself at home using Grid raft, the vibecoded AI Slop Excel. If I had to share documents mid-production with anyone else at all, I would need something cloud-based.

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