Both the Bose and Sony are considered top but Sony is more expensive.I have the Bose and like them but a known defect is the earpad that will break very quickly (buy Chinese replacement for those)

Open hardware?

If you have trouble finding a functioning mirror for the crow, you can get scihub links also from Library Genesis and Anna’s Archive

As far as I know Telegram is the only one with piracy-oriented channels. Maybe we could start one on Signal

One that hasn’t been named yet is SolveSpace. There is also CAD sketcher, a free CAD add-on for Blender

The marvels of intellectual property

I mean home manufacturing is cool and all, but in the short term open source hardware has the potential to create a lot more competition in traditional manufacturing. Most big tech rely on IP nowadays, without it there would be more competitors to drive prices down and increase supply. Home manufacturing is more in the far future IMO

open source hardware has a lot of potential