Are you being serious?

Have a look at the MSFT share price in 2014 when he took over ~$45/share and now ~$470/share - of course investors love him, he’s 10x their investments since he was appointed.

I was going to make a joke about big bee and then remembered actual honey is a huge fraud as well, a significant portion of what’s sold as honey isn’t actually honey. Need a good docu on that too.

I’m fairness the only time I remember being in a phone store in the last decade was because I got an esim when I got my new phone, phone company didn’t send me a qr code to get the esim and I lost access to my account because I couldn’t receive an SMS because my old physical SIM was disabled.

Tbh this kind of hyperbole makes you come across as deeply unserious, the kind of argument that sets back any argument for OSS being used.

You’re ignoring the relatively stable Biden years in between, if Haris had won I doubt we’d be having this conversation.

Things are substantially worse under this regime than the first. Governments mostly don’t flip their entire IT and digital infrastructure planning on a whim. The three major governments on the continent haven’t even been particularly stable over the last 4 years to push through this kind of change.

Earlier this year is the first time the general public have started feeling vulnerable to an unpredictable actor. That’s when govt might do something about it, I’m not sure any have a particular mandate for digital sovereignty. I’m speaking here as someone who has regularly petitioned govt to use more OSS over the last 20 odd years.

Funds need allocating, teams built out (what you’re suggesting is a huge enterprise), a plan, all that would take years before any practical implementation. They’re also not going to abandon existing contracts, that would be a catastrophic waste of public finds.

Take the rollout of the encompass health software in Northern Ireland, 18 months for go-live of a prebuilt well understood piece of software. That doesn’t include any of the preliminary planning work or testing. Small population, relatively few hospitals - a relatively small job. What you’re suggesting is decades of work without a wartime-esque effort.

Don’t get me wrong, I do think independence is a good thing and should happen faster, I’d go as far as to say almost every penny spent by governments across Europe (including UK/Norway/Switzerland) on proprietary software is shameful.

I’m fairly certain if European govts got together and spent one year’s MS Office budget funding an open source Office suite for instance - LibreOffice would be on another level.

In reality we’re probably at the feasibility study stage for most (if anything is being done at all).

I just don’t think we need to start bandying about terms like “seriously mentally ill” or the hyperbole of “saboteur”

I’ve never touched on the unit circle or conic sections as part of formal education, so I can’t really comment. The quadratic formula - occasionally. Almost all of the maths I learned at school until age 16 was practical or useful in some sense. In the UK maths is optional after the age of 16.

I’d argue my maths education at high school level gave me a sturdy understanding of day to day maths, the building blocks for more advanced topics and the knowledge that certain tools exist and how to use them should I need them. I won’t remember the specifics of everything, but a quick refresher is usually enough.

Again, most of the more advanced stuff in the UK is optional and mostly not done by anyone who won’t want to carry that on to a more advanced level - usually a degree with a STEM adjacent subject.

A year is nothing, I’ve seen changes to backend data sources, all internal, where the new data source is superior and everyone wants the change to happen take 12+ years (and counting). That’s nothing compared to the changes that would be required for the continued seamless operation of a country or even a large corp, much of the required software/documentation/processes won’t even exist yet.

Honestly I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use it on a fairly regular basis.

If we keep redefining maths to not include the bits of maths that are inconvenient to people’s arguments it all sort of becomes pointless.

Or y’know this stuff takes time.

Who doesn’t use maths on a day to day basis?

Ah that’s cool, hope you keep enjoying it. Happy cake day.

Would you like it to be your main source of income and, if so, how far away is that from becoming a reality?

Just in time for AM6.

How do you take that from the comment above?

They don’t care, my parents laptop was decently mid-range spec bar storage, manufacturer put in a 5400RPM spinning rust drive. It was damn near unusable, crap from the factory.

Was forced to use it once when visiting and noticed the performance, put an SSD in it and it’s been a fine laptop since. They’re perfectly willing to hobble a laptop to save a buck.

My comment was more about the Chinese monopoly that would ensue if TSMC were taken out.

Have Intel and Samsung stopped making chips recently?

Full of dust

Yeah, I can’t say I’ve really noticed the fan noise enough to bother me yet, but wasn’t sure if that’s because I’m running some generic driver or others were just more sensitive to it than me. Jellyfin is at least fourth on the list of maintenance/upgrade tasks at the minute, as long as I can display the terminal at the minute I’m happy enough.