@ajroach42 i think toppled by how cheap communication hardware that runs free software and "just works" is getting. I don't believe in all this LoRa stuff at all. But I think that just cheap stuff that runs on the various free frequency bands is getting cheaper very fast and that we're getting closer and closer to where any random small group with not much money can get silicon from a foundry which can a very wide range of tasks with no gate keepers at all. Even if USA empire tech oligarchs were to ban all non USA empire silicon domestically(which I don't think they can actually pull off), I think so many nations outside of the silicon super powers are working to make cheap and accessible silicon that at least one of them will pull it off at a scale that breaks a huge number of tech monopolies at every layer of the technology stack.
Modi may be a fascist piece of shit, but as an old Berkeley anarchist it warms my heart to see him embracing RISC V as a national priority. India produces a million engineering degrees a year, and they're going all in on "free like freedom" silicon. And all these nation states spinning up their own sovereign Linux because no nation that runs Windows really has sovereignty--I think that's a big deal. I think this is one of the reasons the oligarchs were so hell bent on making sure Brazil went fascist in the recent election there, because a leftist government will be pushing for sovereign silicon outside of oligarch control.

But they lost. And that's going to happen in a hundred countries eventually.

I place a great deal of hope in the hardware replication economy, where "the means of production" is all just a bunch of code which can replicate entire self-contained industrial ecosystems from continent to continent.