Funny what happens when you have a government that actually gives a shit.

It’s really not though. Most of what you can do with Office can be done with other tools, you just have to learn how to use them.

There are several CM tools already available. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc. Just pick one.

You say that like it’s not already focused on. The majority of Internet infrastructure runs on Linux.

I also work for the state and it’s pretty discouraging how MS has us by the balls on everything. Every application we use is written in VB.net or Visual C# which also depend on running on a Windows server. Switching to Linux would be a nightmare and cost millions for no real gain. Maybe we could run SQL Server on Linux but I’m sure that even that has some gotchas that the state would not want to deal with.

Which Linux? The installation process for most distributions these days is pretty simple.

They will when the choice is work or starve.

The last two aren’t really used here.

AI does not know or create anything. Without stolen training data what would your fancy LLM actually be able to do?

An unelected billionaire committing fraud and destroying our government really does matter.

The government really should be using Mastodon since it is decentralized and FOSS.

Everybody should leave X.

For some reason I don’t trust any of these VPNs. How do you actually know what is happening with your traffic on the other end?

Might go to church.

Personally I am done with corporate controlled social media sites. Just need a replacement for Youtube now.

Reddit banned me for saying mean things about Elon and I’m not going back. Good riddance.

Wait until they figure out that reddit provides very little of value. The users are the ones who post content and keep the site alive.