What can an ordinary person do about this? I moved my savings to ETFs that specifically exclude the US the moment Trump was elected. But my debit card is connected to Mastercard and there's no europan alternative in my country. Or is it more about the big picture and not what I personally do or avoid?
If a country weakens their currency to boost exports or anything, and it's not part of a cooperative environment but instead hostile, won't other countries just respond with countermeasures like a round of QE or lowering interest rates?
I wish Linux distro devs would interview you about your experience. If the goal is wider adoption, we need to understand how to make it friendly for real. Your opinions are very valuable.
I'm a little bit confused by this, "For decades its share of global GDP has been shrinking and its geopolitical influence eroding." Isn't this another way of saying that many poor countries have managed to get out of poverty and gain their independence? A good thing.We should keep our ideals of democracy and rule of law, but is that in conflict with the world getting richer generally? Do we need to be above everyone else to protect our values?
For most computer users, the OS itself isn't the hobby. It's a tool that lets them do things like writing, browsing, drawing, gaming, etc, projects of various kinds, concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown, in a word using their computer. It does not help them to say that ed(1) is the standard editor and that vi is bloated.
I had to call my ISP when the connection was glitchy, and after a while they paused and asked "how many bits are in a byte?" and I said eight and then they were like "ok, let's troubleshoot this, first do this..." etc. Turns out, someone had hammered a nail straight through the cat5 cable to fasten it to the wall.
It matters if future security guarantees are conditional on Ukraine not attacking Russia. If Russia can claim they were attacked without any fact checking now, they might do the same in the future when it matters more. Showing Russia that their claims are not automatically believed is positioning for the future.
There's one in my home town in Sweden in a week or so, I'm going there to see if I can help. I just hope I don't mess it up and turn someone away from ever considering free alternatives, like bricking their phone or ranting about plan9. "There, you now have a fully free phone! Unfortunately you can't call, text, or use the camera anymore, but... yeah."
Oh, then there's hope :) It sounds like there's been a lot of introspection and a will to change course. Does she feel the same?For me I've been the one saying that our current lifestyle is not working for me. I've been saying it for 6 months and I don't know what more I can do at this point. I wish I had hope. We have good days, but the fundamental issues remain.
I recently got a managed Nextcloud instance at Hetzner, it's more storage than I need so I'm creating accounts for friends and family if they want. So far, nobody wants it, but... still.
What can an ordinary person do about this? I moved my savings to ETFs that specifically exclude the US the moment Trump was elected. But my debit card is connected to Mastercard and there's no europan alternative in my country. Or is it more about the big picture and not what I personally do or avoid?