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I agree with everything you said, and yet I cannot help but respect a person who wants to do it himself. It reminds me of the hacker culture of the 80s and 90s.

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Agreed, Everyone seems to shun the DIY hacker now a days; saying things like “I’ll just pay for it”. It’s not about just NOT paying for it but doing it yourself and learning how to do it so that you can pass the knowledge on and someone else can do it.

I loathe the idea of being beholden to large corporations for what may be a key part of this job in the future.

And we all know that enshittyfication is coming.

Exactly. Google doesn't show you what it knows is the most appropriate answer, it shows you a compromise between the most appropriate answer and the one that makes them the most money.

Same thing will happen with these tools, just a matter of time.

And, it's not just about "pay for it" vs. "don't pay for it". It's about needing to pay for it monthly or it goes away. I hate subscriptions. They sneak their way into your life, little by little. $4.99/mo here. $9.99/mo there. $24.99/yr elsewhere. And then at some point, in a moment of clarity, you wake up and look at your monthly expenses and notice you're paying a fortune just to exist in your life as you are existing.

I'm not going to pay monthly for X service when similar Y thing can be purchased once (or ideally open source downloaded), self-hosted, and it's your setup forever.

> or ideally open source downloaded

Ideally Free software downloaded. Even more ideally copyleft Free software downloaded.

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