I got really lucky. bought my pc parts end of november and paid ~1800 euro for a full pc build with a 9800x3d, 9070xt and 64gb ram.

1st. implementing activitypub or any other federation protocol is quite a task. also in my opinion it does not need to be federated. there are basically no benefits, except convenience for the users.

2nd. it’s open source. if you don’t like the way it’s monetized, fork it and make your own. it’ not foss.

probably some error in the firmware. most devices wonn’t boot if you flash firmware for the wrong hardware revision.