CelestialBunny

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[–] CelestialBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Eh, Europe is an important enough market that they could use legislation to get the desired result out of hardware vendors, or something close enough to it. If the EU or a majority of European nations stipulated that everything had to be compatible with open source operating systems I'm pretty confident that it would happen. There would be pushback. Likely they'd claim that it'd impede their ability to turn a profit, create development cost issues, and be extremely insecure, but once things were set into motion they would find a way to make it work.

 

I suppose I should at least add a caveat to this. Strictly speaking, I'm an atheist and I'm doing this in a way to connect with my ancestors. As such I'm looking largely into the deities and mythological creatures of the British Islands. At the moment I'm largely looking at Welsh folklore and am reading the Mabinogion. Eventually I want to look at Irish and Scottish lore and whatever English stuff I can find. My emphasis is largely in Celtic mythology, not Christian or Anglo-Saxon. (Well, okay. Learning what differences might exist between Woden and Oden might be fun but that's not what calls to me.)

Given how inactive this place seems to be (not that I'm surprised but I really want to embrace alternatives to Reddit), I don't really know if I expect an answer, but if anyone has anything they'd recommend for me to read or watch, I'd appreciate it.

Aside from the Mabinogion, I've mainly watched videos from Mhara Starling and Kris Hughes. If possible, I'd like to know if suggested media is reconstructionist or eclectic or neopagan. At this point I admittedly am still trying to figure out how to navigate misinformation.