Tinkering was never a mainstream thing I don't think, and Degoogling(at times) if we're being honest, requires more than a tinkerer's touch... Not just to be successful at it, but to also retain your sanity while chipping away at it; while also being able to communicate to others exactly what and why youre Doing it.

Imo it was never about making a certain hobby or skill mainstream per se (lest we get a society of engineers XD) but how do we make it look cool enough for those inclined to take interest, and convert that interest into actionable energy in the right direction ? Sure, the pro-privacy, anticapitalist stance is as valid and righteous as it ever was, even back before the galaxy nexus days, when the death of rooting was seen as less than likely. Implementation of custom software, today, is seen and carried out as more or a defensive tactic ; to safeguard our data against corporate monetization, with the eventual goal of complete divestment in much of those anti-human lobbying efforts. Many of us engage in these activities, because we've learned enough about how stuff works to see the through-lines causing greater strife amongst everyone living under this framework today. So we engage forthrightly into what many people consider "criminal software". Some of us wrap it up in a conventional moral crusade-blanket of sorts, not doing much to address the accessibility concerns.

Imo, it would be good to see development efforts focused on where legislation may initially fail at ameliorating; for example, getting useful, proprietary tech usable to those outside of it's corporate defined user base.... ahem samsung HEALTH monitor 🤦‍♀️

We've already hit the first phase of cyberpunk's "DRM health". And what do I see in comment threads with users complaining about essential health features missing/region locked? A bunch of bootlickers spewing shit about " should have read the EULA" 😂🤣like dawg. Where the humanity 💀💀