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Not many issues to be honest. You could even install Microsoft Edge on Linux and use that to access O365.

People is already moving away from having a desktop at home, and younger people are not even interested in having laptops, phone and tablet seem to suffice for most of them. From that perspective it makes sense to have a cloud computer that you can use no matter what device you own. Businesses are already moving this way with different types of VDI and cloud-native apps.

For us hardcore computer users, most likely we’ll finally jump to full-time Linux, but for work will still use the Cloud Windows when/where required.

For me it would be better to just have both options, and let me select, but knowing MS, they will make it near impossible to chose (like they currently do with the online account vs local account to sign in to the computer).

The original source of the article looks better than the reader version posted, and includes pictures, but good article. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, but also no. This was reported last year, and the scientists studying it did not mention it was an attempt to contact us from another planet, but the “remains of a massive star’s death.”

From this article on CNN:

Flaring space objects that appear to turn on and off are known as transients.

"When studying transients, you’re watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind,” said study coauthor Gemma Anderson, ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist, in a statement. “‘Slow transients’ – like supernovae – might appear over the course of a few days and disappear after a few months. ‘Fast transients’ – like a type of neutron star called a pulsar – flash on and off within milliseconds or seconds.”

This new, incredibly bright object, however, only turned on for about a minute every 18 minutes. The researchers said their observations might match up with the definition of an ultra-long period magnetar. Magnetars usually flare by the second, but this object takes longer.

“It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,” Hurley-Walker said. “But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright. Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.”

The researchers will continue to monitor the object to see whether it turns back on, and in the meantime, they are searching for evidence of other similar objects.

“More detections will tell astronomers whether this was a rare one-off event or a vast new population we’d never noticed before,” Hurley-Walker said.

There’s no all-in-one app for it yet, as there are different implementations and different APIs for different platforms (is like asking for a single app for facebook, twitter, reddit, instagram, youtube, tiktok). However, all of the ActivityPub platforms can interconnect (aka Federate) whith each other, so while the interface will not be optimized for it, you can view content from Mastodon on Kbin, or from Kbin on Lemmy, etc. The most popular services in the Fediverse right now seem to be Mastodon and Lemmy, but also Pleroma, Peertube, and Pixelfed are getting attention lately. View more Fediverse projects at https://fediverse.party/

Kbin is the one I like best, because it has a view for Threads (similar to Reddit) Microblog (similar to Twitter & Mastodon), People (a directory of users you can follow), and Magazines (similar to a directory of subreddits). And from Threads you can suscribe to threads in Lemmy or kbin, from Microblog you can suscribe to Mastodon or Kbin users to follow, from People you can follow users, and from Magazines you can suscribe to topics you like.

They are working on an API for it as well as some apps for it, but for now you can access the website of your favorite instance and install as a progressive webapp on your mobile.

Very cool! Thanks!
Suggestion: add Brave Search (search.brave.com) as an option as well. It’s a smaller search engine but they have their own index and does not track users.

@ono there are relay services to help with that. I am going that route.

@ernest Yunohost was a great suggestion, installing it right now in a brand new VM. I’ll play with a lot of the applications and see which ones I like best. Thanks for that I wasn’t even aware of it.

I hope Kbin makes it there soon too. I like this interface better than Lemmy as a reddit replacement.

@Trekman10 I get that, but it seems it federates with Mastodon, Lemmy, Diaspora, Peertube and many other platforms, kind of having one account to rule them all… LOL

@ernest Thanks for the feedback! I’ve been reading and learning a lot. I am starting to get a better grasp of the Fediverse. Will definitely be playing soon with selfhosting an instance or two for myself and family.