It worked for China because they were in position of power. The US wasn't established in China and they needed Chinese users to grow their global user base and influence. Meanwhile, China had the wealth and power to say no and instead fund and develop their own homegrown tech equivalents.
Europe doesn't have that same level of power. If tomorrow morning you banned Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce in Europe, you'd destroy their economy.
What Europe needs to do is create the conditions for tech companies to emerge that could truly compete against US big tech. As long as European will prefer working for US corporation, there's no chance for Europe to compete. Simple as that.
I don't get your argument. Those companies provide overpriced crap to go along with domain specific code that is either open source or written by a more specialized company. If companies suddenly had to make intelligent choices and people would get fired for buying IBM, a bunch if companies would show up with better integrations than these since worse just isn't possible.
If a rush to get anything non-US were the priority the market of converting Chinese solutions would already deliver better solutions.. US tech (of this office sort) looks a lot like US steel plants a couple decades after other nations built replacements, that's why it is comical that Europe is not only using it but often using the very worst of it.
The P2P aspect of Skype was really interesting. I remember there were even physical handsets you could buy that had Skype built-in, which I thought were cool. I remember seeing business cards with Skype username on them also. That's how popular the thing was!
It's honestly baffling how we're still relying on old PSTN/phone numbers to reach people in 2025.
To me, that kind of product is what sets Apple apart from other companies in the industry. There's an optimism and playfulnes to that design that is refreshing.
Apple always made things for the users. Microsoft always made things to sell to corporations. Dell always did the same, and their consumer offerings were always a shallow and shitty shell over their corporate ones (and this is STILL true! The alienware towers are generally just an ugly veneer on top of an optiflex case/motherboard LOL).
While that all maybe true. All my Apple kit is dead from a decade or more ago except for the G4 Mac Mini (which is useless btw). The Dell and Thinkpads I have all still work and work quite well and are easy to repair. Repairing Apple stuff is always a nightmare and always more expensive.
The reality is most people are well served by either Windows and/or macOS.
Both platforms have received billions of dollars in developpment by MS and Apple over the years and both have an extremely rich and mature app ecosystems. For most people, there's no real need or desire to use anything else.
That's it.
It's not an issue of drivers, games or app compatibility. If there were serious demand for Linux on the desktop, there would be good money to be made there and these issues would get fixed pronto.
Never tried LSD, but a couple of weeks ago I consummed canabis oil from a small spray bottle I bought from our province's official canabis store. Not knowing much about canabis and proper dosage, I decided to try it, but it's clear I took too much...
The trip was like a mental battle between moments of lucidity and negative thought loops and light paranoia. It forced me to see my own automatic thinking process and this "inner voice" I have with more clarity.
I realized we can orient our thinking and it's polarity at any moment and it would influence our perception of reality. Sounds obvious on the surface, but it became clear when I realized negative thoughts were appearing and I would reorient my thinking elsewhere, the vibe changed and it felt like I was becoming more lucid.
I've done that with weed where I felt ego death basically, because my dose was too high as well. But the next day I felt fine. I've been using CBD oil as an anti-anxiety treatment, it works quite well.
CBD is great for dealing with anxiety. I use broad spectrum drops and take quite a high dose a few times a day. Because the broad spectrum doesn’t have any thc it’s still easy to get work done with it and sometimes it even helps with getting started on something.
Discovered VATSIM by chance watching a Youtube video about MS FlightSimulator and was impressed by the dedication of the various participants. This is the kind of stuff that make the internet awesome.
