It still works quite well, but it has been complemented by economic violence

Thing is, I can also NOT play games and spend my money on other hobbies.

We can unite with the AI against the CEOs

Equivalent doesn’t mean much when it’s not a standard, upgradable PC. This device competes with consoles, not desktop PCs, and needs to be in that price bracket, as the equivalence is not on the hardware or performance, but just “can it play current-gen games?”

Fair pricing means a reasonable profit on the base cost. Trying to gauge what people are willing to pay means that you want to maximise your profit at all costs, consumers be damned.

I understand that’s what Americans consider “fair”, but I don’t fully agree.

First of all, it says it took a month of time from when he posted the initial bounty, not a month of labour… Maybe it took less. Anyway if someone has this sort of skills, they should make good money anywhere.

They’re letting us discuss this ad nauseam just to understand what prices people consider acceptable for these devices

I’ve never done it in decades of owning computers, the only hardware that ever broke was a sketchy PSU, one regular hard drive and a refurbished one. But I guess it also depends on the quality of your electrical supply

Nobody does that

Some IDE (PATA) connectors had no keying…

I mean, isn’t that part of the point? Decentralization to smaller systems

I also self host, but I can’t claim to have better uptime than Cloudflare

Maybe it’s regional

NAT may be insecure but it keeps chugging on

Connect it to a spare access point, create a custom filtering rule on the router…

Weird, must be regional

Whenever I create a redirection on my domain it’s always instantaneous, but it still warns me that “DNS records may take up to 24h to propagate”

Can you open the website? I can’t:

The dev has a specific vision and that’s it. If you don’t like it you can use something else.

Yes, that’s what I wrote as well.

Valetudo is not a community is on the website.

If your answer to my comment is: “well, you can create your own community, with blackjack and hookers!”, well… There’d be so much to discuss that I don’t think it’s worth it.

And as for the second paragraph, communities aren’t “nice”. They’re communities, made of people, who are all flawed, just like everyone is, in different ways, but manage to make the puzzle of human interaction fit. If all you want is people communicating and behaving in a specific way that you approve of, that’s not a community.

Nobody’s forcing you out of your space and I’ve never proposed it, I just said that I won’t be using your software, we’re both making our choices, hopefully in respect of each other.