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Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!
My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html
#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi
RE: https://mastodon.online/@NOSRSS/115931443941488594
I hate to say I told you so. Tech that is paid with tax money should be Open Source.
The enshittification of computer repair is happening.
AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.
The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:
The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.
The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.
So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business.
In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.
@mconley I think usability is not the only criterion on which OS choice is based. Sovereignty, security and freedom are all becoming increasingly important, especially as the US loses its democratic controls over its state.
This is all assuming that there is freedom of choice at all. Most people are locked into an ecosystem which costs so much effort to leave that they never even try.
I recently switched to Linux for my office job and hardly ever use the terminal.
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