There was this highly visible project of the Bavarian capital Munich that moved and moved back after MS moved their headquarters there and because the way they tackled the project.

I live in the state that's affected and think it's about time we take things into our own hands, even if it means a lot of extra work and extra costs.
I met the state government people responsible multiple time (because they have been consistently showing up at IT related meetup events - even the head of state attended a few years ago). They have planned the move for years and made sure that the IT services the government uses are multi-platform (which enables switching later). If you look closely, they are also pushing for Open Data in general and are leading the way in Germany.

To understand why this is happening: While saving money is a nice side effect, the driving force behind this is not savings, but gaining independence and switching to services inside of the EU. Originally the aim was to free ourselves from Microsoft Windows/Office, but the current US administration shows that depending on US cloud providers is not acceptable for public services long term. And then there's the fact that Windows 10 expires in October and current, good-enough-for-office-work would need expensive replacements, this is a perfect moment in history to make the switch stick.

Oh, and the current ruling party is conservative and has first kept a coalition with greens/liberals running smoothly and switched to a greens-only coalition because they gained enough votes in the last election to not need a third party. The local government is ruling pretty conflict free. If you watch them giving interviews, you rarely cringe. They are doing a good job and it's highly unlikely that that they get voted out soon. (It helps that this state is the one where the extreme right wing party is the weakest)

Personally I'm excited to follow what distribution/software they'll use. Because for small businesses it will be an easier decision to skip their own research and just assume that what they chose, will be good enough.

There was this highly visible project in Munich which failed. Not only wasn't it well run and they quickly found out what services couldn't be moved to Linux easily.
MS also bribed themselves back in by moving their headquarters there.

The new projects learned from these mistakes. currently the whole German county Schleswig-Holstein is migrating and they've learned from those mistakes. By first making sure that the software needed is multi platform and - once that's done - beginning to move desktops. Not drop users into Linux when they can't work with it. Also, this time the conservative party is the one pushing for Linux, so there will not be a quick change of mind once the next government is coming. (because the left is not likely to rule there soon)

This one is not about the loss of productivity, but the threat of the current US government. If the US is going to war with Denmark over Greenland, running the country on Microsoft will be a huge issue. Just the perceived threat of that happening is motivating a lot.

It helps, that the end of life of Windows 10 forces action - and probably not the one that Microsoft envisioned when they set the end of life deadlines.

And there's another thing that helps: ChatGPT and friends make switching to Linux a lot easier - because you can ask it how things are done and - for simple tasks - that's extremely helpful.

So year, previous attempts have often failed, but now there's a real chance it will stick.

My mother calls her IPad "the computer" now and does everything on it (and has not touched the Windows PC for five years,
which she used a lot before the IPad came along)

It seems that normal people do not have much use for "a computer" any more when all their
basic needs are met by these devices.

The only time I use two windows on an IPad... ...is when I accidentally activate a seconds one and have to close it again.

On the IPad Mini it would be great if there was a way to turn off accidentally opening extra windows -
this change will just make it even harder to use... not something I look forward to.

It means you get a 1 in 20 chance of 100$ or a guaranteed 5$ gift card.

If it takes you 3 minutes to redeem the 5$ gift card and you earn $100/hour before taxes,
the gift card is worthless. No wonder that quite a lot of people prefer taking
a chance on winning.

This is silly.

James Bond fans may remember the film Goldfinger, where the evil vallian Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Fröbe) was completely redubbed because of the accent. Or films like My Fair Lady where the singing parts have been partially re-sung.

Incorrectly spoken foreign languages have always only worked for monolingual viewers. With a worldwide audience, for everyone who spoke the language these blunders broke the illusion. Everything in movies is false, so why shouldn't AI help here?

It's exactly not the power of their marketing, but the grass root recommendation that goes around that you need to buy Brother when you're disgusted by HP.
Now that there's a public outcry they have a unique chance to commit to never locking out third party again. If they fail to do it, they lose what made them special.
Which in the long run may hurt them, as the fight against enshittification gains traction and visibility.

Actually, not allowing the majority of Win10 systems to transition to Windows 11 without major expense may be a good
thing in the end to finally get those frugal older people off Windows. Because having to throw away perfectly usable work computer
at such a large scale is unacceptable. MS telemetry was always feeling icky - but with the new, no-longer-leader-of-the-free-world
US administration in place, running your life and business off a Windows 11 PC may soon become a pill too hard to swallow.

Since only the total of a sale is rounded, it doesn't increase all prices and penny pinchern can game the system, if they like.
This works fine in those European countries that have dropped the Euro-cent coin years ago..

The local FM stations are not very good. DAB offers more choice and there are some decent stations, but I quickly got tired of having to recharge the radio after listening for a few hours and I'd rather have FM hiss and AM distortions then the constant drop outs when DAB reception is weak.

Add to this
4) continue to support real sim cards next to esim
5) bring back the mini format.

Personally, I switched from Android to Iphone with the 12 Mini, because there was finally a small, great device that's dual sim (even if it's only one sim card)
And I'm a big fan of the iPad Mini, too. But I'm still missing the headphone connector and have not updated the iPad Mini because it doesn't have a sim slot, either.

Looks like it's time to have another look at the Android world to see if there's now a small, high quality phone.

Then the numbers in Finland should go down, because in the last decade, the Scandinavian countries switched to dubbing for children's programming - influenced by commercial broadcasters.

Luckily there's still subtitling for adult oriented programming, so adult viewers will still have their reading skills improved by television.

This was obvious from the start. They (just like Disney and Netflix) wanted to get into ad infested streaming, so of course they increase the number of ads and the price of the service gently. They have all the data and know when people stop watching or quit. They might even try to find each household's ad endurance limit, For me, I'm not playing that game. I'll rahter have one ad free service that costs more than all of them with ads.

Interesting trend - I can't imagine paying close attention to a multi hour podcast on a regular basis - there's just not enough time.
Also I mainly listen while driving or doing chores. These time slots are usually less than one hour. I also do not have a podcast player
that supports resume consistently, so I can pause and resume more than one audio file. (Maybe there's a better player on iOS that does this)

Long podcasts may work as background noise, though, where you sometimes pay attention. It's probably a lot better background noise then
running a TV or a talk radio station in the background, so maybe that's what people like about this format. For me: If your podcast is over
one hour, I'll probably never start it. Maybe I can ask ChatGPT to read the transcript and give me a summary instead.