So there's this not-very-fleshed out thought I have about using non-FLOSS and SaaS stuff.
It's that I could build 10x the amount of stuff if I just stopped giving a fuck about ethical quandaries of the software stack and the company that hosts/makes it.
I don't spend all my time using screwdrivers I made myself because I'm ideologically opposed to Milwaukee Power tools for engaging in capitalism, so why am I so consistently guilted by myself into trying to build shit from scratch at home?
I constantly flip flop on this because sometimes I'll have the focus to do this, but other times I'll get so lost in the weeds that I'll be taking ideological stances against certain *CPU ARCHITECTURES*.
Like yeah Jeff Bezos runs the internet sure sure, but have you considered anything about the CPU manufacturer that powers your entire online life?
Driven to the point of madness because computers are this fractal ecosystem of shit where some kind of made-up ethical quandaries about freedom apply to each and every layer of the stack.
TCP/IP was built by DARPA to enable the large immortal [doomsday] machine capable of nuclear retaliation during the cold war, but you don't see anyone taking ideological stances against fucking /networking/.
At some point we all make some kind of cut off point but my ass cannot do that without feeling like a massive hypocrite. Problem is I don't actually want to live some kind of techno-ascetic lifestyle.
@fack man, I vibe this whole thread.
It can be liberating to have projects that don't fall apart of Amazon is down, but I also don't think that every project needs to be like that.
There's an interesting interplay between self worth/the work you can do/make and anti-corpo stuff. Best discussed with snacks and bev, IMO. It can be kinda dark stuff.
