Indeed, and as far as I understand it, even just the US intelligence is key for safe peacekeeping operations. I’d love to see Europe creating independence, but we clearly have to keep the US ar our side for our own security for awhile longer.

I think a major issue in moving away from US big tech is how corporations and governments have created a vicious circle on the reliance on them. They won’t move away because they are more polished and feature rich than (European) alternatives, as well as their employees are accustomed to them. Because they keep spending money on big tech, big tech will have the finance to stay ahead and keep on polishing and adding features. They will keep repeating these arguments, while competitors to big tech will never receive enough finance to create a one-for-one alternative. Employees will also not get to use any other software and may only get deeper ties with big tech’s ‘ecosystems’.

While I believe individuals should move to alternatives, I doubt this will happen without governments investing in open alternatives, and corporations starting to pay for their services. That way alternatives become viable options for the layperson.

Those parking spaces, though… I hope European parking spaces never grow to similar sizes.

Yeah, and personally, I don’t feel any wish to go back to skeuomorphism. It is funny to look back to and feel some nostalgia, but I think it would look cheap now if they did it like 15 years ago. Maybe iOS’ glassy-ui will create some elements that people like about it, but they luckily did not move back to busy ui element backgrounds.

I do partially agree with his buttons and app-points. I dislike how we are forced to download apps for everything, including the questionable tracking software.

I also don’t see the point in the ‘glass’ blob that floats over menu items. I never/rarely (it makes some sense in the camera app) swipe over menu items, and in my opinion just adds a weird and unnecessary animation (even though it’s a bit smoother now).

In Oslo you can drive Porsche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_MX3000?wprov=sfti1#Specifications

The Chinese too know how to make unnecessary large cars, unfortunately.

This is not only on the far-right, but generally on the right spectrum. The People’s Party is more interested in businesses than actually caring for the environment we live in. This could be seen by the name of the ‘Ministry of Climate and Green Growth’. Apart that generally very little is accomplished by this government, I can’t really remember Hermans having any meaningful proposals or implementations, except for scraping those things that were in-place or halting discussions with large corporations on their efforts on sustainability.

The Farmer’s Party has a complete neglect for any climate issues, and, my sense, is that New Social Contract cares less about climate than the People’s Party. And all three of them seem to be willing to give in to Wilders on this front.

The cynic in me directly thought of how this could be a way for Apple to force the Mac App Store on these machines. Granted it is based on a fear, not grounded on something.