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stunseedon Sweden becomes a smoke-free country

Yeah... I live here, and I would definitely not call us smoke free. But it's gotten better.

stunseedon Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Supervised != surveilled

No human should be surveilled on work. And if you're going to have surveillance on me, then I want surveillance on you. Would you be fine with that?

stunseedon France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

Most of their revenue is tied to other stuff though

1. Productivity / Business (~43%)

Includes:

Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams) - these can be likely ported to Linux if they're not already since they also work on MacOS? LinkedIn Dynamics (ERP/CRM)

~$120.8B

2. Cloud (~38%)

Includes:

Azure (runs on mostly linux, and moving cloud provider as a big corp is expensive, I don't see massive companies stuck in azure infra moving from it) Server products (Windows Server, SQL Server, etc.)

~$106.3B

I fully support the demise of Windows as an OS

But microsoft as a company has shifted away from Windows as their source of revenue, and will probably not be impacted too badly if it were to die completely.

stunseedon My Experience as a Rice Farmer

> But it's easy to forget that humans have spent most of human history trying to escape subsistence farming.

Do you define human history as the last ~10k years or last ~100k-500k years?

But yes, certainly at least the last 3000 years for most humans have been spent farming to a large degree. But if we are even moderate in estimations of human origins, farming is very recent.