nixCraft 🐧Jul 2

Good news! For the first time, #Linux desktop breaks through 5% share in USA OS market as per Statcounter https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

Oh, absolutely, Microsoft, please, by all means, continue with your grand experiments like Recall Spyware, deleting email accounts in far-flung corners of the globe or stealing data for AI training. Rest assured, these brilliant strategies will have absolutely no bearing on Win11 desktop adoption. None whatsoever. We thank you from Linux HQ. Lmao.

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Meanwhile: Microsoft to cut about 4% of jobs (9000 engineering talents) amid hefty AI bets. This was announced hours ago https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/microsoft-to-cut-9-000-workers-in-second-wave-of-major-layoffs this job cut help offset rising spending on AI infrastructure/investments and reflect a greater push to use AI tools internally, according to an analyst with Bloomberg.
Microsoft to Cut 9,000 Employees in Second Layoff Wave (MSFT)

Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, a second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs.

Bloomberg
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@nixCraft

Well... Let's say that molotov cocktails do have their use 

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@h3artbl33d @nixCraft sounds cool, hand one over.
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@delighted @nixCraft

If you throw them at big tech and clouds - I will gladly share my collection and brew up some more 

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@h3artbl33d @nixCraft sure will. Can help doing some brewing too!
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@delighted @nixCraft

Big tech needs to burn. If you feel like we, Exquisite, can do a better job, don't hesitate to contact me (or us).

Threads (or rather Meta in its entirety) is not only suspended at our Mastodon, we block their entire netspace in pf.conf 

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@h3artbl33d @delighted @nixCraft

I agree big tech sucks and needs to be replaced, as huge FOSS Proponent and dev I say this. But I'm not a fan of violence and motolov cocktails either, rather building alternative economies using FOSS.

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@BeaverGEGLChamp @delighted @nixCraft

Yeah - big tech definitely needs to be replaced. Open source is one of the building blocks required, but most certainly not the sole one.

The molotov cocktail was a figure of speech - I do not condone violence.

I do think, however, that we won't get to a better world by merely building alternatives. There needs to be awareness and an incentive. Fortunately, big tech is doing a very, very good job at creating that incentive themselves.