sjvn
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China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for #Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn
The specialized Chinese version of Windows was already scheduled for retirement in February 2027, but now its end-of-life date has been moved up.
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@etchedpixels @ZDNet I fear this is all part of the run-up to the PRC going after Taiwan. I was supposed to go to Shanghai for a tech conference in a few weeks, but I've decided now would be a really bad time to be a US journalist in China if what I think may happen is in the works.
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The Penguin of Evil
etchedpixels@mastodon.social@sjvn @ZDNet It feels the other way around to me
China has reasons not to hit Taiwan
- It breaks trading relationships with the USA and probably Europe (although Europe as we saw with Russian gas and Israel too will do nothing much)
- A shortage of young people, and those people are precious to the families they represent. That will make the wrong people very angry
- They have Russian collapse and Manchuria on the table as well
- It's hard to invade
but Trump risks removing the first
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Pavel Machek
pavela) Taiwan is important because of chip fabs; those won't survive the attack
b) attacking is hard, as Putin learned in Ukraine and Trump/Bibi learned with Iran
c) attacking islands is very hard
d) Taiwan is hard one, even between islands
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