I partially agree and partiallt disagree with the article.

While it’s true that’s easy to ignore the contribution of Europe to technology as a whole (remeber that ASML, the most advanced litography machines that allow the 7,5,4nm production, is a dutch company) and you may very well call it a success.

However, it’s also impossible to ignore that those USA companies still dominate our world. Sure, universities use linux and many open standards, but they also use Microsoft 365, in some cases in the entire infrastructure. Android without Google is almost impossible to imagine for 99% of people. Everyone and their dog buys so much stuff from Amazon.

And that’s a problem, because one country holds our life by our ballss basically. If microsoft collapsed, thousands of companies and institutions would cease to operate. If amazon collapsed, millions of europeans good would be unsold.

Europe has contributed a lot to technology, but to make then truly relevant, they must be used by everyone, not the tech entusiasts. I only know of a few people who use OpenStreetMaps and they are all techy like me.

I think we nees to regain that power, if not for European sovereignity, at least to have competing products that avoid enshittification.

Not only that, usually lettinf people out fully and then going is is faster than getting all crammed and sruck trying to enter.

1. doing things you are not supposed to do is fun
2. thinkering with electronics in fun
3. we are sacrificing our freedom to megacorporations that continously tell us what to do, what to think, what you can and can’t do with devices we own and enshittify them. Taking back some of that freedom feels good

That’s not the problem though. Even if you have no other OS installed, windows still refuses to install on external HDDs.

Thank you for your love. Glad he could warm your week :) he surely made a lot of people happier.

I’m doing ok. Loosing a furry friend is tough, but (unfortunately) I lost many in my years so I can deal with it. The only bad things about pets is that they always leave too soon.

Thank you ❤️. He came to our home more than 5 years ago, already adult. He was most likely a house cat that was left on the street for some reason: in realively good health, but a little skinnier, neutered, but not chipped and every human he encountered he would ask for pets, even complete strangers. For some reason he licked and playfully bite like dogs when petting him.

Once we found him in front of the train station, he was just sitting there taking pets from random commuters coming in and out of the station. He was really precious and a bit needy of love, we gave him all we could.