Yeah, it's promising and even MacOs numbers are a positive because it takes away from the Windows share. I think the future is looking up for Linux if these trends continue.
It's actually happening. HuaWei pretty much switched to their own HarmonyOS that's been forked from Android, and China has an initiative to replace Windows with Linux on the desktop as well.
I was saying that HramonyOS is a fork of Android. Linux is obviously a separate story from that. And here are a couple of article about China ditching Windows for a homegrown Linux distro
Unique image obtained by scientists with high-speed camera shows how lightning rods work (phys.org)
CEO of Google says their Bard Chat AI “makes mistakes” after it called Google a monopoly that needs to be broken up by the state. The bot also opposed Google in a hypothetical anti-trust lawsuit. 😂 (fortune.com)
Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years (newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)
Raytracing on AMD’s RDNA 2/3, and Nvidia’s Turing and Pascal (chipsandcheese.com)
This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time (spectrum.ieee.org)
China’s first hydrogen fuel cell powered service vessel enters operation. Over the next few years, China will see a rapid growth in number of modified and newly-built hydrogen-powered ships. (globaltimes.cn)
Strong Consistency with Raft and SQLite (blog.sqlitecloud.io)
Chinese-led team claims physics breakthrough. Generation of powerful electron beam could could rewrite Einstein theory on photoelectric effect. (bangkokpost.com)
Laying Out a Print Book With CSS (iangmcdowell.com)
Free Software principles explained in the style of Steve Jobs (mas.to)
webassembly for the rest of us (wingolog.org)
Creatures Made of Glass in Antarctica (youtube.com)
A self-rotating, single-actuated UAV with extended sensor field of view for autonomous navigation (science.org)
Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? (nymag.com)
Laptop Brands with GNU/Linux Preinstalled (floss.social)
Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally (thenybble.de)
Real-Time Video Processing with WebCodecs and Streams: Processing Pipelines (webrtchacks.com)
Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified (nature.com)
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas (journals.plos.org)
Chinese-led team generates powerful electron beam from material discovery (scmp.com)
Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide (gs.statcounter.com)
Low-cost device can measure air pollution anywhere (news.mit.edu)