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Re: Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

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Post by robbiep »

Theodores wrote: post #172
lwkl wrote: post #163

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If there are actually people out there walking around thinking that just getting the trains running on time justified the murder of 6 million ‘undesirables’ or many different shades, and this isn’t just some epic troll, then we are way more cooked than I had dared believe. And I don’t think you can hand wave away such large and obtuse generalisations by saying ‘Poe’s Law applies’.

Arguing on the internet has always been a fool’s game, and there have always been people who have made sport of it for the lolz, but honestly, why even entertain such vacuous opinions for outrage’s sake on a forum like this?

Re: Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

Moldoteck wrote: post #52
meekins wrote: post #29

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The rendering won't be 1:1 but installing the most common MS fonts already does a lot

The thing is, it needs to be 1:1. This will be fixed only by a govt push to do full replacement for all doc sharing at all levels, especially schools. But since in this country office is mostly pirated anyway, it's not such a big push

>The thing is, it needs to be 1:1.

I'm not sure about that outside of Excel and even then only for a small proportion of users.

Re: Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

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Post by throwaway45436 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #176
throwaway45436 wrote: post #174

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It's true, I'm terribly jealous of the Swabian clone of MS Paint. I stopped using HN recently, as a long time user, because the direction of the site has gone away from neat tech things ("Hacker News") towards boring bullshit like this ("Politico.eu, but make it Reddit"). I still have an RSS feed pointed this way, and it frustrates me. I vented with this throwaway account and comment. These stories are actual garbage…

> Europeans falling in love with Juche economics Haah, well, at least you put a smile on this Europeans face before you left us for good, good riddance :) Imagine if Europe actually had jawi , life would have been good probably.

I'll take putting a smile on someone's face. :)

I'm all for Europe weaning itself off American tech. Genuinely, totally in support. I think people misinterpreted my original post - I actually want a European HN. I want all of this content to migrate there asap.

Re: Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

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Post by emj »

Theodores wrote: post #133
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #124

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USAid did "good" for the world, but because people took it for granted and it wasn't in the news until it was stopped (which has cost lives).

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Aid is a hard problem that is true but the world is a worse place after USAid got raised by Trump. Aid should probably be atleast 100x the current rate, it should not be called aid either.

Re: Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

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Post by herbst »

mft_ wrote: post #151
herbst wrote: post #55

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This was an issue, but at this point Microsoft is placing ads everywhere, negative news on my desktop, and update nags with changing buttons in every other start. Nothing about it is smooth or consistent anymore. Seriously I've learned about the death of hundreds of people when I switched on my music PC (the only reason I have one windows machine is music software) - I haven't asked for this, and I removed news befor…

None of those issues are a problem for corporate managed Windows installations, which would be the proper comparator in the case given in the article. There are other reasons that Windows sucks, even (or especially?) in a corporate environment, just not those.

Is that true? No stock tickers, no ads, no ai nags? No "news"? No weird notifications that ask for my attention? I guess no regular weird update windows would be the case, but the rest?

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #138
blitzar wrote: post #101

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> funny how many US-guys always bring up WW2 Cut them some slack - its the last time they "won" a war.

When the US wins, it tends to be quick, clean, and easily forgotten. Consider our victories against ISIS, or against Saddam in the Gulf War. Both cases where an expansionist power violated territorial integrity norms by engaging in conquest, and was defeated by a US-led coalition.

> against Saddam in the Gulf War

I really hope you're referring to GW1, rather than 2. And yeah, if you weren't a Kurd who believed GW Bush, then that was a pretty effective war from the US (and global) perspective.

Re: Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

vrganj wrote: post #160
0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #156

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>That your economy is mostly based on integration with ours? The US is one of the world's least import/export-dependent economies. Furthermore, you can see a list of our top 10 import/export partners here; only one is European: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa The US became the world's largest economy around 1890, half a century prior to the start of NATO: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-maddison-proje…

Europe is not one country in a list. It's one trade union, that together is bigger than any other economy on your graph. Also note that you haven't acknowledged any of the other, more important points. It's not just your economy that depends on us. It's every single measure of power. Rammstein. Sigonella. SWIFT. Every single dimension of American power is based on governments in Europe granting it. I would suggest yo…

>Europe is not one country in a list. It's one trade union, that together is bigger than any other economy on your graph.

Wikipedia states the EU is only about 20% of our total trade. Recall that trade itself is a relatively small fraction of our economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

So the statement "the US economy is mostly based on integration with the European economy" is astonishingly ignorant and arrogant. If you can't acknowledge that in your next reply, I don't think there is any point in me leaving more comments after this one.

>Every single dimension of American power is based on governments in Europe granting it. I would suggest you stop being so ungrateful before we stop doing so.

This is an extremely bold statement on your part, given Europe's extreme dependence on US weapon systems.

Regarding military bases, I'm evaluating relative to a counterfactual where the US recedes back into isolation. Prior to WW2 we had a policy of avoiding alliances in peacetime. From that perspective, why would we need to project power in Europe... if we weren't defending Europe? We have our own oil now. No need to be in the Middle East anymore. Again, it's Europeans telling me that they're doing me a favor by letting the US defend them for the past 8 decades. Just mind-blowing.

Maybe we should start arming Russia so we'd be competitive with China for status as your "boyfriend".

Here's a life hack. Learn to use Google. You claimed: "You do know American power projection is mostly based on bases on European soil?" Google search for: "What fraction of US military bases are in Europe?"

The answer? 4-5%. Is the claim that American power projection is "mostly" based on bases on European soil prima facie plausible if only 4-5% of our bases are on European soil? Doing a quick Google can help you understand the yawning delta between your beliefs and the facts.

And BTW, I think Trump is a terrible president and I'm quite upset about the whole Greenland thing. But Europeans are the most annoying people in the world, bar none. I'd honestly prefer an alliance with China over an alliance with Europe. Should be a good way to achieve world peace, if nothing else. I care more about peace than "winning" "global dominance".

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