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jabjoe

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  • Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows

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  • The business is basically thirds last I looked. Windows, Office and Azure.

    Not sure how their purchase of platform companies they shouldn't have been allowed to buy plays into that. Thinking LinkedIn and GitHub.

  • Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

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  • Yeah, I hear you. It's not going to be the case for long anyway.

  • Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

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  • Yes you can, but they are actually in a LXC container with Wayland/X from outside (I think it is also in a KVM/QEmu). (Interesting project : https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEAD/vm_tools/sommelier/README.md)

    If you look at the architecture it looks more normal than Android.

    https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/software-architecture/

    Others note this:

    https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/now-more-than-ever-chromeos-is-linux-with-googles-desktop-environment/

    It's made of lots of FOSS, but it is a dystopian version of a Linux desktop.

  • Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

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  • This isn't entirely right because Chrome OS is using a lot more of normal desktop Linux than Android does, which basically uses none.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS

    Android is this completely different thing (built round OpenBinder) that ended up using the Linux kernel for good hardware support. It's basically got nothing to do with desktop Linux, bar needed it to actually build Android. You can argue that Google basically tried forking Linux for Binder and control.

  • Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

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  • Well yes, but Android now has a Debian container option. If they expose some Wayland/X interface to it for displaying stuff on Android, for a load of stuff, maybe that is good enough for a lot of stuff?

  • Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

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  • Wow, that's excluding Chrome OS, which has 2.71% on it's own. So you could say Linux is at over 7%, but glad they split it so we know.

  • Russian Imperial Movement: how a far-right group outlawed by the UK is spreading terror across Europe

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  • I know people who are for Brexit and pro Scottish independence. I ask if they want cities independent next. Frankly I don't really speak to them any more. I'm too disappointed in them.

  • The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us

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  • Oh no, they are bastards. Extra big bastards in a sea of bastards. I blame regulators. The hope is the right to repair because law in more and more places in more and more market areas.

    Without the EU regulators, Apple would never have gone USB C.

  • The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us

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  • Why? Anti-features aren't just Apple. All big tech do it to users.

    Edit: And automotive, white goods companies, etc, etc

  • Volkswagen reports electric vehicles sales surge in 2025

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  • You looked at the Berlingo? A lot cheaper....

  • Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer

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  • FPTP is going to give us a Farage reich with less than a third of the vote.

    The voting system desperately needs changing. The left needs this more than the right as it's always more split. It's more idealistic, less comprising. Reform/UKIP/Brexit has been the right's split from the Conservatives, but Labour has LibDem, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Greens and now more.

  • US to withdraw from NATO under Republican bill

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  • So we dont buy US military kit. It's got kill switches and hard to keep running without their support. It's increasing looking like they aren't aligned with the free world.

  • ‘We have all the cards’: Trump ending all trade talks with Canada ‘immediately’ over digital services tax - CTV News

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  • The consumer can only really be expected to do so much. Fail of governments / regulators can't really be fixed by consumer action. Realistically, you can't get many to understand and care. We need to pressure governments to do their job. Now the problem isn't academic. It's national security and the tax money and control lost to American big tech is now a political problem. Be a lot easier if they hadn't been a sleep on the job and ignoring digital rights and competition experts, but we are where we are.

  • ‘We have all the cards’: Trump ending all trade talks with Canada ‘immediately’ over digital services tax - CTV News

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  • Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc

    It was never clever to allow such monopolies, but now it just geopolitically dangerous.

    Canada should be trying to move as much to open source as it can, as fast as it can.

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  • If they use means more funding to foundations & projects, this helps everyone. You can see a feedback loop were more and more things hit critical mass. This is a nightmare scenario for the big closed source houses.

  • More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before

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  • Can't talk of heatpumbs, but EVs are great. Been two years being an all EV family. I still don't see enough curb side opposition for people without drives. Home charging x10 cheaper than dino juice, but public chargers (80p per kWh), are basically the same cost. So without home charging, there is little to no cost saving. Which is not only unfair, but will slow EV adoption.

  • 7 European Governments That Are Ditching Microsoft for Open-Source Alternatives

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  • Poor researched articles is normal. Real journalism is rare. You said Munich was a failure and that really isn't true if MS had to work so hard to squash it.

  • 7 European Governments That Are Ditching Microsoft for Open-Source Alternatives

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  • I'm not sure Munich can be regarded as a failure. MS corrupted the test case in every way they could. They couldn't afford it to be seen as successful.

    https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/

    Now it's not just cost but American can be seen as a reliable partner. Let anyone an American corporation.

  • ‘Necessary to quell the rebellion’: DOJ tells 9th Circuit that Trump can deploy National Guard from every state and can’t be second-guessed by judges

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  • That is how they want everyone to feel so there isn't much fight back. However, I think if there was, and the gloves came off, it may also split Republicans and even Trumpers.