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  • In Europe the threat is to both the people and to the countries as a whole, as USA threatens to close off services for political leverage!

    The US government is using the IT infrastructure Europe has build an dependency on against European countries.
    The dependency was built on the trust that USA was a country build on respect for the law and democracy, this is evidently no longer true. Meaning the situation has changed dramatically.

    In USA USA is in danger from itself more than anything outside USA, in Europe large parts of our infrastructure is in danger from USA, because USA is failing democracy and the rule of law.

    This threat has already been enacted in reality, showing the US government is not beyond using such shenanigans:
    https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Microsofts-ICC-email-block-reignites-European-data-sovereignty-concerns

    Obviously the US government isn’t threatened by the US government.






  • Linux as an OS is generally meant as Desktop Linux, and it most definitely is in this context that is about desktop marketshare, Desktop Linux is mostly following freedesktop guidelines, which has traditionally helped standards on Linux a lot to streamline developments. So for instance XFCE/Gnome/KDE desktop apps can be run in all the different desktop environments. For instance also standardizing things like how tray icons work. Freedesktop is part of X.Org Foundation, and Chrome OS does not use X.org or Free Desktop standards at all. The newer Wayland to replace X is also an X.org standard.

    So while Chrome OS is based on the Linux kernel, it is NOT a Linux OS in the original sense, a term that became popular decades before Chrome OS or Android became a thing.

    If you include Chrome OS you might as well include Android too. As it can run on for instance Raspberry Pi and other mini systems, and could be used as a desktop system.

    Chrome OS is a Linux kernel based OS, and not much more than that.
    It’s somewhat confusing in some situations that Linux as a desktop OS doesn’t have a unique name, but it wasn’t a problem originally, as what some prefer to call GNU/Linux was made 100% for desktop use originally.

    The Linux kernel is way way more widespread and successful than what we usually term Desktop Linux or GNU/Linux.

    TLDR:
    Linux OS, Desktop Linux, GNU/Linux are generally meant as the same thing.
    Chrome OS and Android do not belong in that category. They are Linux based as in the Linux kernel only, but do not follow the standards of Desktop Linux.















  • That’s a weird editorializing of the headline, for an article that describes wide spread use, and a market of rapidly growing value.

    For instance a sentence like these:

    This is no longer experimentation; it’s habit formation at an unprecedented scale.

    This rapid adoption drives real dollars: In the two and a half years since OpenAI’s ChatGPT introduced the public to generative AI, consumer AI has become a multibillion-dollar market.

    One of the most surprising findings? Parents are among the most engaged AI users, turning to AI for everyday help.

    Even ChatGPT, with its first-mover advantage, only converts about 5% of its weekly active users into paying subscribers

    Considering there’s a pretty strong free option, 5% is not bad.
    How many pay for using Youtube? IDK but my guess is that it is way less than 5%.
    How many pay for using search? My bet is that we are in the thousandth on that. Yet search is profitable!