Most big distros are old enough to drink though. Ubuntu is 20yo, Fedora 21yo, openSUSE 18yo, Arch 23yo, Gentoo 23yo. (I got curious and a bit carried away…)
But sure, Debian does have them beat by roughly 10 years (31yo).
This OS isn't made by the EU, but it's goal is to become sponsored by them:
Is EU OS a project of the European Union?
Right now, EU OS is not a project of the European Union. Instead, EU OS is a community-led Proof-of-Concept. This means it is lead by a community of volunteers and enthusisasts.
The project goal is to become a project of the European Commission in the future and use https://code.europa.eu/. For this EU OS is in touch with the public administration on member state and EU level. So far, EU OS relies on https://gitlab.com/eu-os.
Personally I don't see why EU wouldn't just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it's a good system as far as I know and it's home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).
Sorry, I realise this is half-joking and not at all the point of your post, but I find it interesting...
Otoh, I really don't want to learn chinese, meh
It's unlikely to become the lingua franca over night, especially since Chinese already speak English (well, the ones you're likely to come in contact with). Maybe your grand-children will learn it in school though.
Apart from the characters and pronunciation, the latter of which is probably quite easy if taught at an early age, Chinese is quite straightforward. There's no regular vs irregular verbs because there are no inflections at all - no cases, no tenses, no plural forms. Just plop the words down in the right order and you're done. And as a second language, I guess we would only use pinyin until quite late in school.
If you're organisation is small/flexible enough, maybe look into using some kind of stacked diff system. We used graphite at my previous company and it's amazing for working with these kinds of things where you have a million little things to fix and they're all kind of dependent on each other.
Aight so, we have two huge economic powers in the world and one that's lesser but still very big. The two huge powers are fighting each other to the death, destroying each others economies as well as their own. Lets go EU Century? 🙏
Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna accused Hungary of siding with Russia, saying it’s "on Putin’s team" and no longer aligned with European interests.
Literally everyone knows this. Even I know this.
Tsahkna urged forming a "coalition of the willing" to bypass Hungary’s veto power in EU decisions requiring unanimity.
Sorry, is this not already happening? I thought this was definitely already being very heavily discussed.
He warned that revoking Hungary’s voting rights under Article 7 is increasingly likely, citing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s actions as threats to EU security and unity.
This too, aren't we like 75% there already? Genuinely asking, I don't know, but this was my impression.
Penicillin / antibiotics comes to mind. As well as vaccines. "Oh you're body is being taken over by millions of microscopic organisms? Take this pill and it will go away. Maybe take this shot too so it won't happen in the first place."
And of course computers + the internet were a pretty big boom too.
I don't think that's true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it's diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the "Five races under one union" (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the "Three Principles of the People" formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It's foundational to both Chinese republics.
(but if we're talking about the language, then "Chinese" is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)
And also RIP Ukrainian demographics. It's great to see Russia hurting, and they deserve their scars, but it's gonna take a very long time for Ukraine to recover too. They'll have EU support, but EU's economy probably isn't gonna be in great shape either. And you can't buy babies.
I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.
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Most big distros are old enough to drink though. Ubuntu is 20yo, Fedora 21yo, openSUSE 18yo, Arch 23yo, Gentoo 23yo. (I got curious and a bit carried away…)
But sure, Debian does have them beat by roughly 10 years (31yo).