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If you're using #Microsoft #OneNote, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to #Windows11 soon:

You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a #Microsoft365 account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/m

For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding #lockin effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.

People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of

My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as #Emacs #Orgmode & not yet another hip lock-in monster like #Obsidian, #Evernote or other closed source #cloud solutions: karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-c

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis

Windows Latest · Microsoft will intentionally slow OneNote for Windows 10, so you ditch it fasterMicrosoft has confirmed that it's killing off "OneNote for Windows 10," but it also plans to force the legacy app's sync to run slower.

Geliebte Sucht – Die Vendor Lock-in durchsetzte IT Drogenszene"

Beim #Winterkongress der @digiges 🇨🇭durfte ich über #Geopolitik & #Vendorlockin in 🇪🇺 und was das mit Sucht ähnlichen Abhänigkeiten und #Risikomangemant zu tun hat

#Linkedin Post: linkedin.com/posts/lars-hohl-8

Komplettes Video: media.ccc.de/v/dgwk2025-56337-

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@tsongloong Wellicht? De hoogste tijd!

Maar veel belangrijker: Zorg voor handhaving van de AVG! Het kan niet zo zijn dat een USA partij die in het gehele onderwijs wordt gebruikt nog jaren ongestraft door kan gaan met de grootste dataroof aller tijden.🚨 🚨

Dus hebben jullie al een handhavingsverzoek bij de AP gedaan? 👮

En neem dan ook gelijk Google Zoeken en Google Maps mee, dat zijn ook zogenaamde "aanvullende diensten".
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"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.

#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.

Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.

Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.

I created the fist issue for the #OpenLLM #Europe #manifesto on GitHub:

Move to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) infrastructure

I suggest to move the software development to a real Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) hosting platform, to ensure #strategic #autonomy and #digital #sovereignty. With starting the project on GitHub, the fist step towards vendor lock-in has been set.

github.com/OpenLLM-Europe/Mani

I read in the manifesto about "strategic autonomy". Why are the projects currently hosted on GitHub, a proprietary, non EU, non free, and non opensource software development platform? This is a wro...
GitHubMove to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) infrastructure · Issue #1 · OpenLLM-Europe/ManifestoBy janvlug
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@sarahdalgulls Because the ECW driver is not Free Software, full of patents, and its owners have never been open to collaboration with opensource communities over the years.

A lot of users switched to other free formats, even if they can be less efficient in terms of storage.

Note that CoG ( Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs ) are now everywhere, since they offer very good streaming capabilities despite lower compression.

Sich freiwillig bei Hyperscalerwahl in ein IT #VendorLockIn Verhältnis zu begeben ist ja strategisch eine „spannende“ Entscheidung.

Dies aber bewußt in Zeiten eines aufkommenden Wirtschafts- und Handelskriegs zwischen 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺zu tun, hat für mich einen nochmals skuril interesanteren Spin.

Mein Vortrag für den #Winterkongress bei der @digiges in der 🇨🇭wird dieses Spannungsfeld aus Sicht von Suchtabhängigen bzw „freiwillig-bewustSuchtmittel nutzenden“ mal sezieren.

#PubliekeWaarden in het #onderwijs zijn essentieel. Hoe komen die tot uiting in de #IT die wordt gebruikt op scholen? Wat zijn de risico's van oncontroleerbare, #proprietary software? Hoe zit het met #privacy van #leerlingen en #vendorlockin van #scholen?

Welke rol kan vrije- #opensource software spelen in #educatie?

Geert-Jan en @remark gaven een #analyse met #oplossingsrichting op #FOSDEM.

Sterk aanbevolen, zeker aan degenen die actief zijn in het onderwijs:

video.fosdem.org/2025/ud6215/f

Should we migrate the communication platforms of our FOSS projects (e.g., Python, Django, …) to Matrix? 🗳️

The idea of ​​avoiding the vendor lock-in is increasingly widespread 🔓

Migrate social networks to the Fediverse, self-host your blog, regain control of your Git repository, … 👏

I wonder if it's time to migrate to “an open network for secure, decentralized communication” 🪐

Answer here or share your experience 👇

#Matrix #VendorLockIn #Communication #Freedom

CC @matrix

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@jshaffstall

Anvil looks interesting. Unfortunately, it appears to be 100% proprietary. Even if you're okay with software you can't examine and modify, you appear to be stuck with using the vendor's website/app for designing your app's UI. They also push you hard to use their cloud-based, SaaS-type deployments.

There's an open source runtime you can apparently run your app with once it's built. But who says that's gonna stick around?

Investing a lot of time in building an app that is one proprietary license change away from being impossible to continue to use seems unwise.

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@heiseonline

Was für ein absoluter Müll.

Das ist nicht nur ein Abo, sondern auch #Vendorlockin und #righttorepair Einschränkung.

Man wird sich also sicher nicht einfach irgendwelche Akkus kaufen können.

Meinetwegen könnte man Akkus ja irgendwie einmal "freischalten" und sie können dann nur an einem Gerät genutzt werden, oder mit dem Passwort des Käufers in einem Laden wieder entsperrt werden.

Aber so... warum nicht analog festschließen?