Ronno

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[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

This isn't as much about the social media platforms, competing with those is relatively feasible. This is more about the professional infrastructure market. Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. There isn't really a European competitor there, the US dominates this market. We have a huge trade deficit on these services, which Trump "conveniently" didn't include in his trade war analysis.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 11 points 4 days ago

Basically the only reason I read the article is to know if they needed a "backdoor" in encryption, guess the don't need it, like everyone with a little bit of IT knowledge always told them.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 28 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I'm curious: the USA wants to dominate the final frontier, how will they ensure a civilization can thrive without woman in those new settlements?

Anyways, the idea is horrific and stupid, let's hope the US implodes.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That's bad and all, but: They are using Signal?!

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How is the company fucking me, if I enjoy playing the game and get my money's worth?

Perhaps Linux isn't the right operating system, but it's competing with Windows, which is more or less a jack of all trades. Linux today isn't a jack of all trades, mostly a niche solution. That is fine, but we can then not pretend it's for everyone.

Meanwhile, I'll keep trying with Linux, hoping one day it will be the jack of all trades and I can seamlessly use it.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The problem is that Linux is only ready in certain cases. For me, it isn't there yet, because I can't use it for my gaming machine. Every time this is brought up, Linux enthusiast shrug it off as "no big deal", you can game on Linux, just the games that use kernel level anti-cheat won't work. Well yeah, that's a bit the issue, I still like to play some of those games you see?

Meanwhile, I have Linux Mint running on a laptop that I bring on vacation. I don't game on that one. Then Linux works just as well as any other OS, no issue.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd probably be all right, Tyria looks nice this time of year. At least as long as the Charr play along.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago

I'm just in awe about those 28% and 33% tax brackets. I'm in the 49,5% bracket here in The Netherlands. That being said, I'm fortunate to be in it.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 51 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Want to setup a more privacy friendly solution?

Have a look at Home Assistant! It’s a great open source smart home platform that recently released a local (so not processing requests in the cloud) voice assistant. It’s pretty neat!

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Mostly in the US though, but unfortunately the US is leaking :(