I don't think NATO would invade, but you're right about the internal internal issues they would have. There would be orders straight up refused, malicious compliance, and we'd see defections like Russia was having issues with in Ukraine. Soldiers just walking up and surrendering, or getting "captured."

Most of them have no interest in taking over Canada, and there isn't even a clear way to "take over" Canada even if they wanted to. They could take over all of our military bases, and take the primary government institutions and it wouldn't really matter very much. They couldn't effectively control the population that would not go along with that plan.

Those pipelines are going to spring a lot of fucking holes if they try to take them by force.

We need to hurt the normal people. While some of them didn't vote for trump, a LOT of them didn't vote at all. That needs to change. These people don't usually change until something affects them personally.

If we can get some non-voters to vote, the republican party drops like a rock.

Is that election interference? No more than what they're doing to us.

I didn't think it was vastly inferior, but I had to split the two pieces of media in my mind. They're fine individually, just not when compared to each other.

I've got a floppy disk attached to my desk. It has "Super important backup" written on it, and a magnet holding it to the desk frame.

I'm old.

Also, air fryers use less power to do something like a baked potato assuming you're just doing 1 or 2.

Yes, but it uses a lot more energy to do it in an oven.

I don't even know what you're complaining about at this point, this whole comment chain is talking about organizations switching between Windows/MS Office and Linux/LibreOffice. That's a user specific situation. Developers can already build their applications on whatever platform they want. There's almost zero windows desktop required development for business purposes these days unless you're producing a video game, and even then 95% of the developers have nothing to do with OS specific code. Everything else is a web app. If you're still trying to maintain legacy code in a desktop application, that's a you problem, not a Microsoft problem.

It's also funny that you think rolling your own servers is going to be more secure than using Microsoft's (or another cloud provider) at this point. Security through obscurity has never been a good idea, and AI has made that strategy 1000x worse.

I think you're too far removed from the jobs regular people, if they sit in front of a computer all day. They are spending their time in Outlook, Excel, Word, PPT, and they may have one dedicated line of business application for finance, HR, or similar. Especially in governments (as per what this comment chain is about)

Linux isn't the problem. You're right that linux has improved significantly, but pretending that windows is what Microsoft sells these days is a hilariously bad take. Windows makes up maybe 5% of the total revenue at Microsoft.

Governments and companies aren't buying Windows, they're buying the entire Microsoft ecosystem. This includes an operating system (windows) and desktop office software (office) but also everything from identity management (Entra), e-mail servers (Exchange), Cloud Storage (SharePoint/OneDrive), Task Management(Outlook/Planner), Communications (Teams), Automation (Power Platform), Data Analysis (PowerBI/Fabric), etc.

You could drop windows and office, use Linux and Libre office instead and it would still be a good idea to pay for M365 subscriptions for the rest of what's happening there.

They're forcing people to the cloud, you're right, but if they didn't you would still want to force yourself into the cloud by running critical services in a datacenter for your organization. Doing things in the cloud makes a lot of sense.

Individually specific open source alternatives can be better than their Microsoft equivalent, but taken as a whole bundle that needs to work for your organization, it simply doesn't make sense.

Fuck developers, I'm talking about USERS. A 10,000 person company isn't 90% developers, it's 10% developers and 90% people who just want their shit to work every day.

Easy enough.

You may not think it works together, but go try having 14 different open source packages to replicate the same functionality and then try tell me that Microsoft's stack doesn't work together. I've tried it, it's fucking painful.

Just because it doesn't do a specific function that you want doesn't mean it doesn't work together.

Being able to do things like send a chat message(Teams) to your co-worker linking to a task(Planner), that has an attached file(SharePoint), where you can then both edit the file at the same time(Office/SharePoint) before jumping into a voice call(Teams) to discuss that same file, then being able to create a meeting(Outlook) to follow-up on the finished product while remaining in a single application(Teams) the entire time is what I mean by working together.

You simply can't do that with any other stack. You can get one or two parts of that, but never anything like the whole.

Disagree with me all you want, but Microsoft knows how to integrate. That's why companies consistently choose them. The only reason other countries are moving away from Microsoft has to do with political reasons, which to be fair is completely valid. However, the product is still better, and anyone who says differently is lying. The only thing that even comes close is Google's offerings, and that isn't any better because it's also American.

Even Nextcloud is pretty bad, every single thing is an additional paid add-on.

Windows costs next to nothing these days in the scheme of overall software costs. Office is only a tiny portion of what comes with a M365 subscription, most of which is valuable. Libre office can replace desktop office, but doesn't replace the rest of the integrated stack that Microsoft has.

Until there's competition that goes well beyond just the desktop software Microsoft will continue to win contracts. Having one system, with one login, where everything just works together for everyone is just too valuable.

I use both open source and Microsoft software. If you try to tell me open source is cheaper I'm going to laugh at you. Open source has a cheaper initial price tag, but far more expenses related to configuration, training, and maintenance.

What an easy fake out, it's not going to even get started prior to him leaving office so we can just drag our feet and then toss it when he leaves.

Money is far more important than principles. -Modern Christianity

An outgoing president needing to pardon his family pre-emptively because the incoming president is threatening them is well along the path to fascism.

Good job electing Trump you fucking morons. I hope that the consequences of your own actions hurt you more than they hurt the rest of the world.

No shit.

This is literally in the first paragraph of every economics textbook when they talk about tariffs.

The one thing even Americans who have health insurance don't realize about single payer healthcare systems, is that we don't worry about it.

We don't consider it when switching jobs, we don't think about it when we're sick, we don't worry about medical bills.... we just go to the doctor/hospital, and worry about getting better or dealing with the work implications of taking time off.

The weight for that piece simply doesn't rest on our shoulders or minds at all.

You've been tricked and brainwashed you into thinking what you have is normal, and it's disturbing how many of you think it's a reasonable way to continue.

Just to be clear, they had not actually started harvesting anything.

The nurses and doctors noticed as he was wheeled into the operating room and called it off, a bunch of them ended up in therapy over the situation.

Someone fucked up by declaring him brain dead clearly. He does however have significant brain damage from the drug overdose that initiated the whole situation.

It's a fucking struggle right now, and It's not supposed to be like this.

You shouldn't have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.

The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There's enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.

The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it's sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There's a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.

When the police show up to investigate your murder, and they ask "Is there anyone who would wish to harm your Husband/Wife?" and your spouse just turns over your entire database of your clients, you're the bad guy/girl.