• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 months ago

        Be honest. Do you think either of their 2 parties will spend any time going after their own big tech like this? Big tech has their fingers deep into politics pockets.

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        8 months ago

        It’s sweet that you think the average person has an actual effect on the direction our government takes. The only way to get stuff done is mass protest, and we sure as hell aren’t getting people to protest deleting Edge when we have much, much bigger problems here atm.

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    8 months ago

    How do I, an outlander, get away with removing above bloatware?

    Can I login to my VPN, set the server to, say NL and get to delete it?

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    8 months ago

    With all the DMA stuff going around I hope the EU take some real steps to Linux and FOSS in general. I mean come on, I can be root by design and fuckup my system if I want to - this is real freedom, gentlemen 🇪🇺

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      8 months ago

      Maybe, but the N version was in response of another regulation that was less stringent in enforcement.

      If they only do it in the N version, all other versions become prohibited to sell in the EU. I’d guess this is all versions, and the EU region lock is enforced differently.

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    8 months ago

    “The European Commission has exempted Bing and Microsoft Edge from DMA oversight due to their non-dominant market position.”

    I wonder if Microsoft’s legal department advised Nadella to abide by the spirit of the law (despite the exemption) to prevent possible headaches in the future.

    This is 👍 news. I don’t use Edge. Google is my search engine, not Bing. 1 may change Edge’s default search engine, but I never bothered.

    Microsoft has been betting big on ai. They may be OK with “competition”, “fair playing field” or “pro-choice” things if ai will give them billions in profit in the future.

    It’s 👍 that alternativeto.net is still around. I’ve been going there to find alternate programs.