[mumber_typhoon]

Imagine a scenario where you want to start gardening. Go to gardening clubs and you'll find a lot of free information there and people to guide you. Public libraries exist if you want to join a book club and start reading. Again free. Agriculture, irrigation, building homes, woodworking, stitching clothes, etc. everything essential has been free to learn and do.

Apply this to the internet and essentials are FOSS. Linux, DNS and maybe RISCV someday will mean you can build computers and internet on essentials that are free to learn and use.

[cobertos]

In the same analogy, doesn't that mean that vendor-locked software like iOS or ChromeOS would be akin to vendor-locked seeds from Monsanto?

[mrarjen]

Bayer these days and yes, avoid like the plague for nothing good will come of it.

[staplers]

Raspberry Pi's obviously trying to make this a reality.

Learning to self-host and get off cloud services might be one of the most personally freeing feelings I've had in a long time.

Rent-seeking is obviously growing out of control and one of the most powerful ways to combat it is personal ownership (if possible).

[throw844958585i]

Land for garden in my town costs like 1000 eur per square meter. Gardening clubs are full of old dudes, who want to have a sex with me. Public libraries are homeless shelters now. If I actually plant some vegetables (in pots or front yard), it will be full of dog/cat excrements the next day!

You are living in imaginary land, nothing is free in todays society!

[1718627440]

Just because you live in some shitty, doesn't mean everyone has to or wants to be...

(I do realise you used euro, I just don't think we need to adjust our standards down, when our locality sucks.)