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The timing’s interesting: as Windows 10 approaches end-of-life in 2025, and when users are being nudged towards a cloud-first model, this week's APC’s saying: maybe don’t. Maybe go Linux.This isn’t a niche Linux mag. It’s a mainstream Australian tech publication telling average users that Linux is now the smarter choice. That’s a shift. Feels like we’ve gone full circle: the same headlines from 2005, but this time it’s not about hope. It’s about practicality. Bloat, telemetry, UI friction maybe Linux’s time on the desktop really has arrived.
So, without any awareness of the context and details ... this does sound like an anglo-NZ person being upset at attempts at reconciliation with the indigenous population and the effects of colonialism ... and therefore, on face value, a problematic or at least superficial position. Any chance you can fill me in?
Racism is never acceptable, even when one thinks they have a good reason. All racists think their racism is justified. In a democracy each person gets one vote. We don’t give people extra votes on the basis of race. Democracy is sacrosanct, and any party seeking to dismantle it is going to be rightfully voted out of power.
The current government seeks to give Maori tribes (iwi) preferential power over national water assets. It is effective control over how water is distributed throughout the country.
Yea, hard disagree there. Getting things back in shape often requires going in the opposite direction, even somewhat extremely. Cultural inertia, selfishness etc are often what hold back things like reconciliation and reparation. Absolutes aren't nearly as useful, IMO, as their adherents like to think.
Wow they still make APC?
There's another saga about a city council selling rights to drain an aquifer to a private company that is siphoning huge amounts of water out and selling it to China for profit.
Water rights in New Zealand are a mess.