instead of usb booting a custom Tails instance every time to defend their glorious revolution

  • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]
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    world's most accessible and compatible operating system

    you mean US tech imperialism and hegemonic status that dominates and crushes any of its competitors via monopolistic practices that was never challenged in the US and was exported to the rest of the world? Microsoft rules based order vibes.

    Just wait for the second Chinese Civil War to erupt within the next decade and TSMC to get the nordstream treatment. No point in making a transition to complete digital sovereignty until that happens. China has been developing RISC-V and their own domestic operating systems for a while now. Besides that, China has their own substitutes for Western spying tech infrastructure that they could easily port to RISC-V and other operating systems (something that is completely unprecedented in other countries on the planet). They are so ready to roll this out when x86_64 (Western imperialism) gets blacklisted from China.

    It is a bit sad to see AES states not have their digital sovereignty down immediately (DPRK experimented with Red Star but they now reportedly use Windows 7 and 10), but that's literally the whole reason I scream about the importance of free software. The United States' tech hegemony is a direct assault on the sovereignty of other nations and using free software that guarantees people's freedoms is the only way to fight back. We improve and campaign for GNU/Linux so that the entire world can benefit from de-americanizing their computing (which also includes American citizens).

    I mean if you really want to become doomer, life-saving medical equipment literally depends on old deprecated versions of Windows that if gone would literally make these machines e-waste and people would die. It's not just that Windows is "so convenient", you literally are not allowed to use or participate in technology if you don't have it.

    But yeah, they could easily slap Debian and Firefox onto their machines and it would work the same if this is just purely a web-based interface with no extenuating circumstances. L Chinese industrialists.