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Fair point. Especially at the current HW prices, you can starve pretty quickly.

Maybe I should have paraphrased “Whitey’s on the moon” instead. “Data centres on the moon”?

Self-hosting will not give your mouth sex appeal

Self-hosting will not get rid of the nubs

Self-hosting will not make you look five pounds thinner

Obligatory reference because you’re on startrek.website:

Why would you want one small, multi-purpose device when you can have a PADD for each book/instruction manual/hourly report? 🙂

That’s the key point, isn’t it? OP’s question isn’t really as hypothetical as it’s phrased; you definitely can go on Amazon or eBay and find cheaper, Chinese knockoff parts.

But will they perform to the same standards as top name brands? Very unlikely.

Why a vote to switch up an existing community? The admins have proposed the [AI] tag to mitigate slop projects.

You said you wanted a community to post vibe coded projects, go ahead and set it up. I don’t see why it needs to be foisted onto c/self hosted, unless you have some vested interest in boosting sloppy mcslopface projects.

I want a community where people can use AI to help build a tool

Sure, that’s github

and be able to post about it here

Fine, but others including myself want that slop as far away from here as possible. Maybe start another community? I suggest calling it c/vibehosted.

Did you expect to be blocked for posting a wall of tedious slop?

The better alternative would be if all sites just had RSS feeds… but yeah, since we can’t have nice things, this is the way to keep tabs on site updates!