Because of intellectual property laws, military equipment repairs have to be done by the manufacturer now instead of in the field. Hilariously dumb. Even the global war machine is now being consumed by the vampires of capital.
Because of intellectual property laws, military equipment repairs have to be done by the manufacturer now instead of in the field. Hilariously dumb. Even the global war machine is now being consumed by the vampires of capital.
At a certain point, it will be a more worthwhile proposition to detach from the profit-driven economy at large and just make things independently from open-soutce blueprints.
There will come a time when we end up boycotting everything.
i feel like so much of my long term strategic planning is about these structural decisions to avoid buying cheap crap. learning how to keep a car running, basic woodworking and simple carpentry, sewing, finding or creating space to repair or fabricate things.
at one point i was in a living situation where i had room for a “project” space. like little art projects, but easily doubled as a repair/construction area. had a shitty opd laptop with mint on it for research, tables, pegboard for tools, paints, bright table lamp, high magnification lenses, xacto knives, seeing machine, etc.
and it was such a game changer in dealing with broken shit. like i could just plop something there and deal with it when i had capacity, and it didn’t interfere with my chill or eating or cooking space.
all I can think about now that im between places is getting something like that set up again, both as a creative outlet, but really just to handle shit that comes up in a more organized way.
Oh yeah totally.
I’m gearing up to buy a house in the next 6 months and it will need to have plenty of storage/atelier space.
This is the running theme of most of Cory Doctorow’s fiction
Already getting there. It’s hard.