I am an IT systems administrator.
Doesn’t sound all that political.
Except I work at a newspaper. That’s where it becomes complicated.
Newspapers have the right to keep their sources hidden to protect them from the government.
How does that work when you’re using M365 and the government has access to all data stored in the Microsoft cloud?
Or Microsoft could, according to the terms of service we accepted, simply stop servicing us if some of that data is questionable?
Which countries do we blacklist?
How do we protect ourselves against targeted cyber-attacks from Russia?

It’s one of the most interesting IT jobs I ever had.

Also a climate so scorching hot we won’t ever see anything like it again before 2030.

Go back to before life formed on earth, and shit in the ocean.

Even if all end users boycott Amazon, they’ll still make billions from AWS.

I mean…
gestures vaguely at Japanese culture

Who’s going to arrest him?
And what do you think the MAGA cult will do, then?

Or French farmers shoot them on sight.

When Lemmy got named, it was a safe haven for half a dozen communists.
No one thought about alienating normies.

I used to have wood a lot more often, before microplastics.

What we actually need is to stop fucking printing.
We need a foldable A3 size e-ink reader that you can use like a folder.

That sounds like a 15th century printing press with extra steps.

2D printers used to be like this.
They all worked with open, universal drivers, no additional software, and any ink cartridge that fit inside the bay.
But then companies figured out that people will just buy the cheapest printer on offer, regardless of everything else.

On iOS, all browsers are Safari with a coat of paint.

How much you earn, how many hours you work and how much paid time off you have, what your city looks like, what housing looks like and how much it costs, your monthly expenses, the media you consume and the news you watch (or don’t watch cause it’s too dumb), …
EVERYTHING is determined or influenced by political decisions made by people in power.

So yes, it is your problem. Cause a lot of your problems are caused by politics.

It’s just a nice gesture, to protect the metal with paint, since the factory forgot.

In Southern Chile, Organic Maps was leagues better than Google. GMaps was basically unusable. So yeah, it depends where you are (and how many Germans live/travel there 😁).

Openstreetmap still uses the correct name.

Have they tried suing people who don’t want to buy one?

I was legit baffled by how such a shit peace of software could become so ubiquitous – until I got to know SAP and realized that Teams isn’t even in the bottom half of enterprise software quality.

You can avoid the issue when a government just mandates one standard, ideally after consulting with experts on which is the best.
See: USB, SCART, etc.