Mastodawn

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

AP News

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Greengordon 2d ago

@ilumium

Trump just did to the US tech industry what he did to the US defense industry: killed any future foreign business and set in motion its permanent decline. Nobody will buy US tech now.

"#Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor."

#uspol #EU #microsoft

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Eric the half-a-bee 2d ago

@Greengordon @ilumium

US can no longer be considered a Western Democratic Country. They have become just another pariah thug autocracy. 😔😢😤🤬

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Eric the half-a-bee 2d ago

@Greengordon @ilumium

And not just a pariah thug autocracy. Reading the article fully it’s obvious that the US is now a pariah thug terrorist autocracy.

Microsoft are complicit in this. Personally I’m moving off Microsoft and into Linux. I wish so much professional software, in my case engineering software, was not based solely on the Microsoft OSs.

#trump #USThuggery #USCorruption #microsoft #CorruptMicrosoft

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CohenTheBlue 1d ago

@Ericthebeeover2 @Greengordon @ilumium 1/2 Most stuff can be run via Wine / Proton. For a beginner, installing Steam and adding software installers as non-Steam games may work. Once the installation completes, modify "target" and "start in" fields to the path the program was installed to. Don't let the installer try to start the program. Add double quote " to beginning and end of "target" and "start in" field contents if they don't have them.

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CohenTheBlue

@Ericthebeeover2 @Greengordon @ilumium 2/2
Steam's default location for stuff installed via Proton is:
$HOME/.steam/steamapps/compatdata/

In that folder, look for the folder created latest. In that is a skeleton of Windows starting at pfx/drive_c

There are more configurable options, like using Lutris.

Steam has the freshest Proton if you set the "experimental" branch as default, most quirks ironed out. Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility -> Run other titles with: Proton Experimental

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CohenTheBlue 1d ago

@Ericthebeeover2 @Greengordon @ilumium Disclaimer: if your paid software has some sort of activation limit or it's forbidden to run it on anything other than Windows... This was just a suggestion of what might work, I'm not responsible if you lose the license due to any anti piracy measures or such that the developer might have implemented.