I just had my first child and discovering the world with him has really been eye-opening to the “small things” again.

You might want to have a look at parkitect! Its an hommage to rct1/2 but in a modern 3d presentation

What’s a pedalo?

Get a USB c dock

So it’s a hollow half-shell

There’s an actual article on [remote coin-flipping] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_flipping#Telecommunications)

I believe pipewire should be able to do the routing. Pulseaudio as well.

Pay or okay is happening in the EU right now as well. At least in Germany…

GDPR is EU legislation, noyb is an EU organisation. What are you talking about?

Bitwig is probably the best available closed source daw on linux

There is a difference however. The techno feudalists are no longer about the means of production. Instead they increasingly show rent-seeking behaviour. Businesses looking to own “market places” and becoming brokers of other people’s services is a techni feudalist trend. Take Amazon for example. They sell top spots in their search directly to business customers. An app store monopoly is more akin to land ownership than classic factory capitalism.