In NY state, murder of the first degree is reserved for murder against a police officer or something related. So not an average civilian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_New_York_law?wprov=sfla1

“Don’t completely disapprove” might be better phrasing

Mate, you can just put your finger over the solar panel until it slowly gets strangled

What if you are practicing? Can you start slow on the hard bits or do you have to get it right straight away?

What is you installed a gutter? And made the down pipe go into a bucket

Not wanting to be too conspiratorial, but it isn’t necessarily people simply doing this out of the badness of their hearts. The fediverse is a disruptive platform and there are many parties with deep pockets that might happily funnel a little bit of cash to certain consultancies in certain countries to stop things and add friction to this platform before it really takes off. Nothing like a little bit of corporate sabotage!