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Inflation, but also scale of manufacturing and tooling.

I was a Buyer for a chain of bike shops. You will not buy the same stuff forever. Continuous manufacturing is also generally much more expensive. Most cheap modern goods are made through contract manufacturing. That creates the cycle of seasonal products. Even something like cars involves a tooling cycle where the same stuff cannot be made indefinitely; the tools wear out with time. The market saturates with any given design. All people do not want to drive a Toyota Corolla from 1992 in beige.

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It takes a critical mass of like minded people.

That is not really the point here. The actual question is more about stopping the evolution of hardware and software deprecation, like creating a minimum system that is never updated.

The people that want to make money are not de facto legitimate. Some people want analog slavery too. Some people want fascism. Some people are serial killers. Some people are Google. I see no value in those people. They do not create content I find interesting. The things they fund are opposed to my principals and democracy. Those people buy and sell a part of me to exploit and manipulate me. Those people are criminals. Those people are bad neighbors and have no place in our communities and neighborhoods. We have a right to open public commons free from piracy, pillaging, and slavery. That is the fundamental flaw. The internet is public commons, not a slave market.

Just take pictures. I use FreeCAD. You just add the picture to whatever plane. I usually put a small precision ruler in the image. Then there is a scaling tool. You pick two points in the imported image and it scales the size of the image so that you can easily create sketches that follow the contours.

Don’t print big stuff blind. Copy your designed part, then do a couple quick slices so that you only print a tiny unit test to check the fit of critical areas.

Having a set of printed radius gauges helps to measure. GL

The other post reply here came close enough. With the suggestion to use: tree --fromfile -a with grep. I’m still not fast enough with emacs to do stuff like this efficiently. I get lost in the documentation and do not use emacs daily.

Airbus or drive.

Pretty sure there has almost always been a line in the sand where the lower classes will say whatever. You’re never going to stop the dumbest squeaky wheels. The difference is where in the classes and at what official level saying something becomes an issue.

Like with free speech in the USA. That means legislative from the federal government.

So like saying is one thing, but leaflets, and a rally, white papers, or other published work by someone with credible academic credentials, are another.

Submissive and Breed Lol, good for you.

I maintain my stance, dogma is directly correlated with a lack of intelligence and competency.

Almost certainly, but that does not productively address the real underlying issue.

Maybe, but the issue is likely loneliness in need of an outlet. The relationship is a manifestation of the deeper need for a meaningful connection of some kind. Try to be a part of that connection if you really care.

Negative feedback loops cannot produce positive outcomes in any system. One must add positive reinforcements to achieve positive growth. Mocking or shaming are negative feedback tools. If you use these with any human, the human is far more likely to double down on the behavior. In essence you are training the human that communication with you or by the same mechanism is a problem they can easily resolve by not communicating further.

They already have a relationship. View this like a tribe that you are not apart of yet. If you apply uninformed bias through dogma such as the assumption that the person has ill intentions, you are identifying yourself as someone of a rival tribal faction and at best attempting to leverage your tribal relationship against this new one that has formed. You’re asking your grandfather to take the loss of meaningful value as he perceives it.

The far more effective anecdote is to be open and insert yourself into this new tribal situation where you are present for communication and hold a vote in what happens in the tribe.

That is how you influence the situation without causing harm and with positivity.