bring out the ol’ “fuck you, no.”

fork(u)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

where it positioned itself as a promising alternative to CDs.

Well, to cassettes actually... or both.

the only feature I look in monitors these days

Not being smart.

Define cheap.
Define better.
Define good.

It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.

A healthy global FOSS culture requires collaborative politics to be the flavour of the day

Bullshit. There's no reason people with political differences can't collaborate on the same project, unless those differences are really huge.

There has been a swing in the business opinion

Depends on where you read that info, it tends to be 50/50 pro/against really.

Big spinning wheel would provide a semblance of gravity.

Decentralization is, by definition, censorship-resistant, just hop to another instance.

There is censorship, but i think it's on par with reddit. Were i to post some of the stuff i post here on lemmy on mastodon instead i'd have my account banned. Speaking from experience.

I like black but i'd go with red on this model.

Most people are not fit to be parents.

Keep your egg in multiple baskets?