If you can point to any part of the analogy that's valuable, I'm happy to go along. But this post is like breaking into someone's home and shitting on their table. There, I can analogy too.
It's a tool. As engineer, I will try to use each and every tool that helps me, so it's reasonable for me to learn using this tool effectively as well: what works, what doesn't, what's expensive, how can I keep it under control etc.
Of course thats only the purely technical/utilitarian aspect, and I'm not going into the moral/social aspects here.
If you're using zmk, you should investigate the viability of a dongle for your setup: it's a third nice!nano (or other Dev board) that's directly connected to the computer (without battery) and serves as central side while the two parts of the actual keyboards are configured as peripheral.
Since central's energy consumption is massive compared to peripheral's, weeks or even months between charges in this topology isn't unheard of.
So much so that we now have riot-tourists that only come to experience "throwing a stone at a bank" or "getting arrested for lighting a garbage bin on fire"
Or maybe they've really been looking for the van with antimatter for the last fourteen years.
Some desperate delivery person crying in relief when they finally find the delivery entrance, and the scientists: "well, now we can actually start this whole operation"
How would anyone place a 100% community driven distribution like Debian in such a cage? There's no monetary leverage, the community is truly international, so local laws don't apply .....Please note that it's also one of the most prolific distributions, and the foundation p.e. for *buntu.
If you're living in an oppressive jurisdiction, your employer might obviously not allow you to use a truly free operating system, but that's hardly Linux's fault.
So if your favorite distribution is starting bullshit, just switch to the next one, there are literally thousands of them. That's why "Year of the Linux desktop" is confusing: it's "year of steamOs" or "year of *buntu", probably even "year of Debian", but most certainly never "year of the nixos desktop".
Wow, looks awesome! Although I'm more of a columnar stagger kind of guy (and handwiring), I can appreciate the amount of work you must've put into this!
Do you have a plastic cutout around the antenna, or how do you prevent isolation by aluminum?
While I'm not overly educated in the history of denazification in East Germany, I know that at least later, it was more of a proclamation than something actually happening. That's why so many neo-nazis "suddenly appeared" in the supposedly nazi-free zone after the unification of the germanies.
Supported by the fascists in the west that had never gone away, the unified right made quick progress in their organization.
If you can point to any part of the analogy that's valuable, I'm happy to go along. But this post is like breaking into someone's home and shitting on their table. There, I can analogy too.