100% agree

Ebay, and the local used market (something like Facebook marketplace or Craigslist)

Get on with the times, it’s microslop now.

We are talking about developing alternatives to US services, which, surprise, will need datacenters to run. You don’t provide email to 700 million people from an old laptop in a basement.

Datacenters are not inherently bad…

The thing is… it’s not blank. It’s painted, but someone complains no that the art is bad, but that they don’t like how it was painted. Well, nobody is forcing you to look at it, you can even paint it yourself.

4 billion can go a very long way.

What is your price range, a button and two shells? The S5 can be found for 50 bucks used.

Lemmy users don’t care about reality, you’re talking to a brick wall basically.

It’s open source. Feel free to write your own software, or pay someone to do it for you.