Just use multiple database files (e.g. one for unimportant, one for important) and automate the syncing with syncthing or something so the lazy doesn’t matter…

2 for me, manufacturer refurbs, didn’t say I disliked it, but as per OP, it sure would be nice if prices moved in the right direction.

But we do have a much better organized second hand market, so there’s that. /s

Who knows ?, which is the same as no.

Leveraging the tendancy for everyone frustated with shit search results due to SEO to slap site:reddit.com on the end, and enshittifying it (coz any AI they can train (also any AI, but moreso) will mangle the shit out of it, seriously reddit is not enough data). Way to dilute your brand for a headline. Morons.

Pretty much because they couldn’t possibly win and set a bad precedent by losing. It’s a worthy goal, but it wasn’t the right time or country.

And shouldn’t have courted. More power to them, but this was the wrong hill to fight for.

This. By the time you get it good (shouldn’t be that long, bikes really are simple), you’ll know exactly what you want for n+1…

TLDR:

Skip to today, and Big Tech is pursuing the same approach, often in the same states.

They too have funded front groups, hired an armada of lobbyists, donated millions to campaigns, and opened a firehose of lobbying money to replace real privacy laws with fake industry alternatives as ineffective as non-smoking sections.