Tyrone SlothropAll of a sudden, the time and effort I´ve invested in learning about self-hosting feels less like a frivolous hobby, and more like a good investment.
And I´m not happy about it.
stfn 
@slothrop There is a time when a homelab becomes more like a homeprod, isn't it?
fedops 💙💛
Don Faulkner@slothrop I’m looking forward to the day that our homelabs become a federation of individual personal personal clouds.
srfaudioWhat's interesting to me is that I actually only got into tech about 7 years ago. Prior to that, I was working as a tech-adjacent professional creative.
Back then, I think I just accepted that big tech services were just better because of their ability to focus on UX due to funding, etc. Very end-user.
I never understood devs that willingly used "inferior" free tools.
Now, on this side of the fence, I'm very much headed in this FOSS, decentralized, privacy-focused direction.
A little bit of perspective can really change one's outlook in a big way.
You’re not alone. A lot of folks think that way. The change in perspective comes when people realize that those big tech services run the same sort of stacks that we do at home. They just have more resources to spend on UX and things like that.
So many consumer cloud services are just FOSS in a fancy dress.
@dfaulkner @slothrop what’s informative to me is just how large the gap was. I’ve been in software now for 7 years. It didn’t really start to click until probably my 3rd year working in the industry. The prerequisite knowledge and experience to even understand why FOSS is better was a bear.