That was quite a refreshing article, and so… human, probably the biggest compliment nowadays.
People love open source software not because it’s free, but because it is open. That openness brings all sorts of benefits
And I really love this quote from it, I stopped to think for a bit about it, but yeah. Being open and trusting the source is waay more important than being free monetarily








For startup costs, ~80€ for a used micro PC a few years back (+100€ for a 1TB SSD for it).
Since then
I never bothered with electricity costs, since it’s a small micro PC. It probably uses sub 20W average, which, next to an AC, fridge, and WFH costs, has to be negligible, the cost of buying a measuring device in itself is probably not worth it