Chatgpt, give me the most business answer possible with airtight logic that eliminates the possibility of imagining a different way.

Chatgpt :

Logitech, like any publicly traded company, exists to maximize shareholder value, not product longevity, so using cheaper switches—even in a $120 mouse—isn’t corner-cutting, it’s strategic. A $0.10 upgrade per unit sounds trivial, but across millions of units it erodes margins significantly, and more durable components risk extending the product lifespan beyond the optimal refresh cycle, cutting into predictable repeat sales. Making switches hard to replace and binding functionality to proprietary software isn’t anti-consumer—it’s deliberate lock-in that ensures brand dependency and data capture, both of which are monetizable assets. With shareholders expecting year-over-year growth, not stability, any move that delays repurchase or encourages repair undermines the core business model. The $613M profit on $4.3B revenue isn’t greed—it’s the result of a finely tuned system where every design and pricing decision serves one purpose: sustainable, scalable profitability.

How else would they still stay in business if I could just use that mouse for the next 10 years !

Yes, they shouldn’t go for those garbage non-paying worthless jobs like nursing and teacher, instead work in finance and take big bets arbitraging out millions from whole economies.

What if I kill a rich and wear his skin like a suit ?
How do I get its family to accept me as their ruler ?

I have a 2 year old MX Master 3S, the left click button can’t dragndrop anymore without dropping, unless you press really hard on it.
Also I can’t rebind the buttons without having Logitech spyware installed on my computer.
Changing the button requires soldering and deep disassembly.
For a 120$USD mouse this sucks !

It’s hand crafted, they probably barely breakeven.

Go ask Logitech if they will share blueprints or spend 0.10$ extra for a button that survives more than 100’000 clicks

Frost via Hyphanet

I had never heard of this, reading the page I thought this sounds like freenet, something I have not tried since … over 20 years.
After some reading turns out hyphanet is the old freenet , interesting !

As for IPFS, I never managed to find a single thing to download. Content discovery and communication is a problem there.

those users who can’t be bothered to learn
snooty tech elitism

What does “fighting the good fight” even look like to you in this context, anyways?
We built the entire infrastucture, we can poison it’s business model.

When the first banner ad appeared on the web, the condemnation was not loud enough and it was allowed to fester.
At this points these entities have become large enough that the evil practice that could have been snuffed out, is now being accepted.
Now every slimey thing on the internet is due for the mother of all crackdowns. Something like the GDPR times 911.

I’m not in the mood for centrist technocratic measured solution at the moment.
If it makes more than a million a year and it’s using any kind of psychological tactics,
that’s advertising, sponsored search, dark patterns, then BURN IT ALL DOWN

Anytime you need to tell the audience “you’re supposed to hate them” throw these “suspicions” on, suspicions don’t need proof but slander is forever.

The thing where gnutella doesn’t fit with what I’m searching for, is that the available files are on one person’s computer somewhere, they aren’t posted into a swarm of some kind. Yes that one isn’t gatekept, but each file is centralized in one place. It’s still great and in many ways more open to users to post what they want. I haven’t tried those in a long time !

But what I’m curious about is something that uses the swarm as the backend, not one person’s computer.

I guess in a way, maybe NNTP is more like what I’m searching for, even though it’s not really a swarm

There are many options to explore in this thread already however…

Sure, sure but !

“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

The tech community is pacified into not taking action against the polluters by our adblockers because we don’t see the egregious ads and so we don’t fight the good fight for the user.

Thanks I’m checking this out, never heard of that before !

OH yeah, I remember that !

"Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections "

What a tag line, that’s everything I’m searching for

Thanks that’s very interesting ! I wonder what else could happen on this dht network, is it possible to send messages, respond ? Create lists of magnet links and post them ?

I have never heard of these so-called “friends” and remain on the lookout for an actual technological solution to this problem.

That minus the private, minus all the baggage a “traditionnal centralized forum” would bring, and entirely swarm based, no ICANN domain name, no web servers, no dedicated VPS running the show. I’m specifically not talking of a “forum and tracker” combo.

Yeah I found some, heavily gated, not swarm based, like gnutella and direct connect. It’s somehow “not it” but napster descendants.

Those still need some webserver running, at a specific place and a specific ICANN acredited registrar, subject to centralized control, shutdown, censorship, with it’s shadowy, unaccountable invisible gatekeepers and traceable, definitive owners in ways that torrent swarms just aren’t.

Is there nothing that puts everything in the swarm ? Posts that aren’t in “one place”. Distribution channels with no choke points.

The thing with a .torrent file is that it will never have anything new in it. Nobody is going to post a comment inside of it. It’s not going to hold a discussion and point to you new or newer things like it.

I’m grasping at something that doesn’t exist yet and doesn’t have a mind, but I think it should it exist, it should already exist, somehow but it doesn’t !?

But what do you do with the methane, can’t story it and if you burn it, you release the CO² which was the point of burying fertilizer while it’s CO² carbon credit value is less than the price of the fertilizer itself.