CHINA has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within 2 years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.
Staff were asked after the week-long May break to turn in foreign PCs for home-made alternatives that run on operating software developed domestically, people familiar with the plan said. The exercise, which was mandated by central government authorities, is likely to eventually replace at least 50 million PCs on a central-government level alone they said, asking to remain anonymous discussing a sensitive matter.
The latest central government directive is likely to cover only PC brands and software, and exclude hard-to-replace components such as processors from Intel and AMD, the people said. China will mostly encourage Linux-based operating systems to replace Microsoft’s Windows Shanghai-based Standard Software is one of the top providers of such tools, one person said.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs-sources
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-06/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs
wanna do some dunking? check the r/linux thread
When was the last time any of y’all had a ding dang computer virus? Web 2.0 and the centralization of the internet, in addition to torrents fading in popularity as streaming replaced it, has basically killed all wild viruses. Unless you are going on sketchy porn or ROM sites or something you probably won’t get a virus in 2022 even on windows
isn't it incredibly hard to get a virus from a torrent?
I only click the green skull guys on piratebay, never had any issues
The viruses I got back in the day from torrenting weren’t the files themselves, but the magnet link websites