Fvwm really has everything I need. Also not moving to Weyland.

It is mostly not a question of infrastructure.

While I am not convinced this will happen, it is a definite possibility. I do agree that US tech is in a death spiral.

They will probably be getting a suspended sentence for insulting behavior. Still matters. People in the EU are nowhere near as desensitized as in the US.

Exactly. This irrational trust in Microsoft "because they are powerful" is completely deranged.

What a stupid and disconnected comment. You are deeply stuck in the past and it is not a good look.

Europe has that. If is not cost-effective at the moment, but moving closer to it costs very little in comparison to the gains. Also remember that Europe has, for example, ASML and Zeiss and that Europe educates a lot of good engineers. Replacing ASML and Zeiss alone would take a moon-landing type project at this time. And as soon as you leave the MS crap behind, you are not tied to specific hardware anyways.

I know a few people in the government space that do IT security exactly for this. Yes, FOSS gets reviewed as well before it goes into critical places. That review is just a lot easier.

Exactly. They used the nuclear option because the convicted felon wanted it. And now everybody is very intent on making sure they cannot use it again. On the plus side, this will create a lot of local business and long-term will pay of economically as well because suddenly, with FOSS, its is not closed systems anymore. Reminds me a bit of the right-to-repair discussion.

The trigger was blocking several accounts at the international court of law. I think Microsoft may regret that dearly now. But all it really did was make the problem strikingly obvious.

Yep. And since the nice LLM has written code no human can do anything with anymore, you have to pay for tokens, tokens and more tokens. Or throw the whole steaming pile away. The latter may kill you (a bit earlier) though.

Despite ample warnings, people only find that out when the vendor support ends and they expensive hardware becomes useless.

If that happens, nothing of value will be lost, but we may all benefit.

That is of course complete and utter nonsense. That big model may be less mobile, but it can do a lot more damage. I mean, not even Anthropic is able to reliably sandbox them, or so they would have us believe.

And that too. But that "higher productivity" is still missing in most scenarios and the claims of "you are holding it wrong" made by the LLM pushers is getting less and less credible.