2026-09-29 16:21 UTC
Replies (12)
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@chahn.chris@piefed.social 2026-09-29 19:10
Windows is basically a zombie OS at this point, shambling along and eating brains.
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@fodor@lemmy.zip 2026-09-30 04:19
Foreign countries using Google, Microsoft, or Apple, would be suicidal not to change platforms. Right now, the U.S. has incredible leverage: it can turn off their government servers, delete their data, and is certainly spying on them right now. The only reasonable move is some kind of self-hosted setup, at least for a large chunk of critical infrastructure, with some cloud options for backups, maybe, who knows, if the country is too small or centralized.
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@ouch@lemmy.world 2026-09-29 21:57
US has been building soft power like this for decades, and Trump is pissing it all away. If this process to get rid of dependency on US gets well underway, there’s no turning that ship. US won’t recover the position it had in fifty years or more.
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@smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2026-09-29 16:25
Finally. Been saying for years, NixOS is the obvious choice for a gov distro.
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@schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-29 16:44
US: Let’s sanction everyone everywhere all at once! Also US: Why don’t people want to be dependent on US systems? 😭
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@im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 2026-09-30 00:38
This might just be the best thing that happens in tech (for me) all year. I daily drive debian just because boring and reliable. However, fancy package managers like flatpak and appimages and nix have made debian much more vibrant - it’s easy to install new versions of things now. That said, nix package manager on debian is just freakin amazing. Being able to just nix-shell -p and exit when I’m done with it is magnificent. That’s the gateway drug anyway. The nix based home-manager is pretty cool. While I’ve been tempted to jump in with NixOS my experience with nix packages and home-manager has felt kind of bleeding edge or experimental. Loads of things that don’t work as intended on debian. A sophisticated well funded user base like a federal government has really good implications for the stability of the project in the future. I’m really stoked about this.
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@SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2026-09-30 03:02
Considering the Dutch have ASML, this seems an unwise move for the US. But then, the Dogey Confederates are working towards the destruction of the USA. 😒
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@bigmamoth@lemmy.world 2026-09-30 05:20
Didn’t vote for it but would have love it
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@corey931@lemmy.wtf 2026-09-30 05:42
“You want to cut us off? No! We cut you off!” Petty BS
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@personalhel@lemmy.zip 2026-09-30 13:38
never trust the americans again
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@FE80@lemmy.world 2026-09-30 09:59
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court …fuck this place.
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@jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-30 16:10
The whole Netherlands? What…?