By “need to do”, are you referring to what one needs to do to survive? Who decides what is and isn’t needed?

Yes.

Would the most moral way to kill someone I personally don’t like involve donating all their organs to hospitals? Would the most moral way to get a billion dollars be counterfeiting?

I think your system fails to address that some things are always immoral.

Mine is based on the consent and consensus of the other sentient beings involved. For example, drinking alcohol around people who are cool with you being intoxicated, or doing it alone, is perfectly fine. Getting blackout drunk around people who do not consent to taking care of you is not.

All forms of hierarchical authority are never moral because they always violate consent and consensus. All governments, corporations, and organized religions are immoral.

You should definitely start with small projects to build experience. Modern passenger vehicles are extremely complex. To get a feel for this complexity, it would be a good idea for you to start doing basic maintainence on your own vehicle if you have one (oil changes, tire rotations, etc). Invest in some good quality tools if you can afford it.

I knew very little about cars until a little over a year ago when I started watching Garbage Time. This YouTube channel is a very entertaining way to inadvertently learn every aspect of how cars work. Because of this channel, my partner and I have started doing all of our own car maintainence and we fixed a very poorly maintained Toyota Celica that had a spun bearing.

If your goal is to actually design and build a fully open-source passenger vehicle, you may want to collaborate with Open Source Ecology. I believe they already have an open-source truck in the works as part of their Global Village Construction Set.

Their goal is to create an open-source version of civilization’s 50 most important tools. This is an extremely ambitious goal, but it’s technically possible given enough time and effort.

Isn’t this just a standard political compass with different wording? Left = Equality, Right = Hierarchy, Authoritarian = Centralization, Libertarian = Decentralization

I think way too many people don’t know the actual definitions of Left and Right, so this version makes it more clear.

I think most people are in favor of having lots of different products to choose from. The point of the post isn’t that it’s a bad thing, the point is that freedom should mean more than just having a wide variety of products to choose from.

You are right that this sort of project should not be attempted by a beginner. It would have to be a collaboration between several experienced engineers. OP should not attempt this alone.

My hope is that by the time these surveillance systems become mainstream, OP has enough experience to collaborate with others on such a project.

And since you mentioned throwing Arduinos at cars, I thought I’d mention that there’s apparently over a thousand cars that have had their ECU replaced by a specially-designed Arduino. I guess there’s several open-source ECU projects out there. Might not be street legal in all jurisdictions though 😅

In that case, you are correct.

Nobody is exercising hierarchical authority in those situations. Prioritizing feeding yourself over feeding others is fine. Your backyard garden is your personal property.

In the real world, most food is grown at a large scale. Producing massive quantities of food and withholding it from your community would be considered a form of hierarchical authority. The means of production belong to all.

If you want to get involved in open hardware, a good first step would be to learn KiCad. It’s is used to create electronic circuit schematics and turn them into printed circuit board (PCB) designs. Here’s a pretty good tutorial to get started with it. Please ignore the instructor’s obnoxious Ronald Reagan quote in the second episode.

A PCB is usually not enough, of course. You should also learn FreeCAD so you can design the mechanical aspects of the hardware, whether that be a simple enclosure, or a more complex system with multiple moving parts. Here’s a good FreeCAD tutorial.

I mention KiCad and FreeCAD specifically because they’re both free and open source. You can check out this awesome list for a list of cool open hardware projects and learning resources. Two projects that really stand out to me are the LumenPNP pick and place machine and the Voron 2.4 3D printer.

For in-person groups, see if there are any makerspaces/hackerspaces in your city. That’s where you’ll most likely find like-minded people.

Here’s two examples of evil things that China is doing:
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Internet censorship in China

The fact that they’re considering denying access to basic human necessities like food indicates that they aren’t anarchists. That would constitute a form of hierarchical authority, which is not permissable.

Unless of course they’re all anarcho-primitivists and don’t believe in large-scale agriculture, without which you couldn’t feed everyone. In that case, they’re just stupid :P

this is the only controller that might retire my wavebird

Been using Linux for about 8 years now. My DE of choice has pretty much always been XFCE. Here’s an overview of the distros I’ve daily driven.

Linux Mint -> Debian -> Arch -> NixOS -> Arch

I tried NixOS for about a year before switching back to Arch recently. There were just too many problems I couldn’t find a solution to, and I realized that the advantages of an immutable OS just aren’t that important to me.

Arch really is a dream to use, and the setup is pretty easy if you use the archinstall script. And most importantly, their wiki is amazing.

sudo rm /bin/evil-age-verification-binary

Or if it’s done through systemd: git clone, remove the offending code, and compile.