Right to repair isn’t about everyone knowing how to do it, but providing the accessibility and potential for repairs, compared to purposely obfuscated tech which is at the mercy of corporate overlords. Yes, a lot of people won’t know how to repair it, but if they want to repair it without paying a professional, they still have the ability to research and learn how to do it themselves.

So random that the USA is lagging behind in this regard, travelled Europe - everyone using phone pay, and in Australia my home country, it’s pretty much the only way people pay nowadays.

Agreed, it was good back in 2017. For me the effect wore off after a few months when the gimmick boiled down to “Wow the brand is being so savage 😂😂”

What about self hosting? I can run a local GenAI on my gaming PC with relative ease. This isn’t consuming mass amounts of power.

In trying times you’re missing the big picture. If they were more commonplace, you’d have a decentralised communication network that can’t be shut down by the government.

AdBlock + just torrent it lil bro

Right? Like isn’t that the entire point of the Fediverse? Aren’t we meant to be able to exist in little instances with values that we align with? And if people don’t like it, they’re free to move somewhere else, or peacefully block us and our ways?

it’s soyjak.party

Is it an Australian instance? whats the domain?

But then the whack-a-mole game continues, and you’re constantly having to find new extensions to serve the same task. When you could simply switch to firefox, deal with the very minor growing pains, and keep using uBlock with no problems whatsoever.

Not sure about multi track but check out soulseek, more specifically Nicotine+ for FLACs