There are two Windows services which are big Data hogs, slowing down the system and which you can desactivate, the hibernation service, which create temporary duplicates of every open app in a temporary file, so it open this apps after Reboot, it’s not really needed, you can put apps you use regulary simply in the Start avoiding to fill your PC with tons of temp files. Apart the Index service, which stored any change in the file system, to accelerate the search, but this in a modern PC, more if you use an SSD, don’t make much diifference, but save a lot of RAM and CPU.

For customize the UI and the Start menu, which in Win 11 is by default an absolute crap with an chunky Fisher Price design, where you can’t customize not even the Task Bar, you can use WindHawk (FOSS), it’s something like an userscript manager, which permits to change any aspect of the GUI with an click.

If you have to use Windows, there are two mandatory apps with which you can turn Windows in an fast, private and submissive OS without nags and trackings, Hellzerg Optimizer and Portmaster. My tweked W11 use less than 1 GB in RAM and the GUI has nothing to do with the (horrible) original one.

It’s about profiling the user, logging his activities and searches, certainly bring more money than these “rewards”.

Not only Chromiums in this alliance, also Geckos there.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/browser-choice-alliance-launch/

EDGE is an usefull app for downloading an Browser in a new Windows.

https://www.goeuropean.org/, there you can find all kind of stuff. but there is anyway an page with all european alternatives in https://european-alternatives.eu/categories.

The Map is from pre-Trump ballroom and ICE Gestapo times.

Prove that you are a human

Good sound to play at midnight

Only summarized correctly, for those who don’t want to leave Lemmy to read the article without knowing about it.

Summary

Microsoft has admitted it cannot protect EU citizen data from U.S. government access, even when stored in European data centers. In sworn testimony before a French Senate inquiry in June 2025, Microsoft France’s legal director Anton Carniaux stated “No, I cannot guarantee” that French citizen data would never be transmitted to U.S. authorities without explicit French authorization^[1].

The admission stems from the U.S. CLOUD Act, which compels American companies to hand over user data regardless of where it is stored^[1:1]. While Microsoft claims to resist “unfounded” requests, they must ultimately comply with legally valid U.S. demands^[2].

This revelation has significant implications for European data sovereignty, as U.S. firms control 69% of Europe’s cloud infrastructure^[1:2]. The issue affects all major U.S. cloud providers - Microsoft, Google, and AWS must all comply with U.S. surveillance laws including FISA, the CLOUD Act, and Executive Order 12333^[2:1].

European officials worry this creates dangerous dependencies, as sensitive government, healthcare and business data could be accessed without EU oversight^[3]. Some experts advocate shifting to EU-based providers operating solely under European jurisdiction^[2:2].

Well, it’s clear that the EU can’t avoid leaking data to the US, when they continue using US Cloud providers, irrelevant if they use MS, Google or any other. They can force MS to have OneDrive desactivated by default, let the choice to the user if he want to use it or any other EU provider, if he can’t o won’t to use Linux, but there is the same problem when he use US cloud providers, is there where tha data are property of the corresponding company and the gov “to protect the childrem and making America great again”

EU sovereignty in soft an services, better yesterday as tomorrow, FTUS

It’s not true, certainly can restrict the installing of certain apps which need admin privilegs, but it’s a malware scan beginning with the boot sector, avoiding root kit malware.

Nor for me, but I found alternative info

Tech billionaires are systematically dismantling American democratic institutions through unprecedented concentration of wealth and power, with Europe potentially facing similar threats^[1][2].

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and other tech leaders are implementing an explicitly anti-democratic vision outlined in “The Sovereign Individual,” a 1997 manifesto that predicted nation-states would collapse as wealthy elites gain independence from democratic control^[3]. This ideology sees democracy as incompatible with freedom and envisions a “cognitive elite” rising to power through cryptocurrency and internet technologies^[2:1].

The strategy has three key components:

1. Direct Political Control: Tech billionaires like Musk have gained extraordinary influence through campaign spending and direct government roles. Musk now controls critical government infrastructure through his “Department of Government Efficiency,” modifying federal payment systems without oversight^[4].

2. Institutional Capture: Wealthy tech leaders are systematically weakening government agencies and civil service protections. Trump’s “Schedule F” order could replace tens of thousands of civil servants with political loyalists vetted by conservative groups^[2:2].

3. Alternative Power Centers: Billionaires are establishing autonomous zones and acquiring land in places like New Zealand as “boltholes” for societal collapse. Thiel obtained New Zealand citizenship despite spending only 12 days in the country^[3:1].

The model draws from competitive authoritarian regimes where “elections are often fiercely contested battles in which incumbents have to sweat it out” but the system is rigged through government machinery to attack opponents and co-opt critics^[2:3].

Europe faces similar pressures as tech companies resist regulation and establish parallel power structures. According to tech policy experts, the U.S. must not undermine European efforts to “regain sovereignty over their information systems and resist domination by Big Tech”^[5].

I don’t doubt it, this why I sais, that I believe the Israel solders capable to do any atrocity, even capable to leve bomb traps to childrens. But I also don’t like fake news, even not from Palestine, these are damage more than it helps, because Israel can use it against them. Because of this is specally in this notice to prove that it is true, only believing it isn’t enough.

I believe that Israel soldiers are perfectly capable of this atrocities, as they have shown in the past and also reported by several humanitary organisations. But we have to take this news with a grain of salt, since there is no other news that confirms it.

It is always best not to depend on third countries in the essentials. This thing about rare earths is basically not so correct, since they are not really rare, they are found in practically all countries, only the extraction is enormously polluting, but on the other hand there are in each country old exploitations and mining in an environment that has already been destroyed. Urban mining may also should be more used than currently, with the huge amount of electronic waste available everywhere and are a big source for not only “rare earth”, but also a lot of other raw material. As always, political, economic and corporation interests prevail the common sense.

Anyway, if this is an sim, it only translate the question, if those which create it are also live in a sim. It was a nice idea that we are only NPC of an galactic WoW.

Light can reach in this time, AFAIK, 1 μm, it’s on the absolute measurable limit.

“Have all the money” is more and more relative in the US with who has all the money, the country and the people for sure not, but greedy corporations and billonairs, thank Trump, who puts public money with full hands in his own pockets and those of his friends.