Witnessing a once great and free country happily sink itself into irrelevance, the one last station before oblivion.

Now, as a EU citizen, the frightening question is: when will the EU as happily follow steps?

As a Waterfox user, I wonder how all of this will impact forks?

I understand, thx.

Thx. That’s what I was thinking. More or less. But I won’t download my own local AI either as I really don’t wish to use one. I was just curious to know if there was any way to… control this kind of claims.

I would think the real growing user base are mobile/phone users (aka Google/Android and Apple/IOS). Windows is dropping because for many people a computer is overkill and all they need is their phone… and Microsoft failed to enter that market.

What I would consider good news is if we were to notice a third mobile OS to get a significant share of users.

The real question, for me as a EU-citizen, should be: when will the so democratic EU decide they want to do the exact same as the not so democratic USA?

It’s interesting to see how quickly and easily the ‘democracy’ and the ‘we care about our population rights’ mask is dropping revealing what Georges Bernanos was writing in 1945: be it ‘the democratic West’ and the (back then) communist Russia, it doesn’t matter much the ideological differences as the system itself (the state/government, the society) will try it’s hardest to become a dictatorship whose power no one can escape. How? By multiplying rules and laws in order to make it impossible to do anything without them knowing it. Even peeing, would I be tempted to add.

However, I’m missing conversations about what we actually do beyond posting links and recommendations.

You need to spend more time reading (and participating) in discussions and you should start noticing some more comments related to that (and also to consuming less, more local, and so on).

Also, keep in mind most online activities will refer to, well, online activities not what people may do offline, as well as what people may chose to discuss privately. Which can be very different.

• Are you involved in any political activities that align with the BuyEuropean ideas?

A few years, I have made the choice to never discuss politics online (I was getting tired of the quickly rising hatred and brainwashing going on, everywhere) and to limit my political discussions to in-person and/or private discussions. I have the intuition I’m not an exception.

Soon available in every country, no doubt, as obviously we all deserve to be… protected from our-naughty-selves.

EU-made? Not much. Most ‘EU-brands’ I can think of (tuxedo laptops sells them with Linux prinstalled) are mostly some kind of rebranding of the same (Chinese) models.

Another solution, depending what you want to use it for, could be to pick a used laptop.

Older ones will still run Linux great and some of those older models are highly regarded for their repairability. See professional lines like older Thinkpad (not all of them) or the HP Elitebook laptops (I was a happy Thinkpad user but I switched to an Elitebook because I managed to get one for a real good price with a better screen than my thinkpad and depending the model, they both are easy to maintain) and maybe Dell too (I never used a Dell laptop, so I could not tell)