any time i really think about it, i'm overwhelmed by the sense that to combat corporate control of electronics we will have to reinvent and re-normalize untold swathes of modern technology, but we haven't got the free labor for that, and definitely not to make it broadly accessible. i think about friends whose only computer is a phone or tablet. for all practical purposes, we're locked into this mess.
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@rotatingskull i think about this. i think about establishing lo-tek production lines for open hardware gadgets, like non-phone PDAs, routers, etc; it's the sort of thing that can be done horizontally, with relatively low overhead, even though it's totally perpendicular to mainstream products.