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Why would that be the EU's job? You might argue for EU funds that nudge things in a certain direction -- ubiquitous and secure encryption, say -- but general so

• mschuster91 4y ago
  > Why would that be the EU's job? Reducing electronic waste is a key issue that the EU will need to tackle rather sooner than later. At the moment, Windows 11 won't run on old computers without TPM 2.0, which will render all PCs without one to either electronic waste or a constant security threat despite that the machines could otherwise run Linux perfectly fine - but no one outside of a bunch of nerds will run Linux on them because the software state of desktop Linux is just abysmal compared to the well-polished offerings of Apple and Microsoft. Additionally, right now almost all economic and public activity depends on Microsoft to an unhealthy degree. We couldn't even get Microsoft to supply GDPR-compliant versions of MS Teams for schools during the pandemic, it's extremely hard to disable telemetry on anything Microsoft. Microsoft simply does whatever the fuck it wants and can get away with it, simply because there is no meaningful competition for anything they offer. And that dependency is extremely bad - just imagine the 45th coming back as the 47th in two years. The CoJ tore down two "agreements" for data transfer already because it cannot be assured that the US government does not steal our data (or worse, serve us malware) based on a secret NSL. Europe needs independence, not just from Russia and China where it's long overdue, but also from the US.