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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's insufferable that the answer is always "build your own." Lemmy assumes that every single person on the planet is an engineer with enough free time to design, build, and troubleshoot every device they own.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's based in rugged hypercapitalist bootstrap thinking. If something is broken just do it yourself! Even though that's never realistic, and even if it were, no one person can or should be expected to do everything.