> Sure, Apple’s there selling popular laptops, but you could buy a different laptop or a different phone.
> But the liberation didn’t last long. If you deploy software, you probably pay rent to AWS.
There's no Azure? GCP? Hetzner? Digital Ocean?
> You pay exorbitant rents to cloud providers for their computing power because your own computer isn’t in the right place to be a decent server.
You do that because you don't know what port-forwarding is (vast majority of software people do not), or you don't have the place or infra in your dwelling to stash a laptop server running 24/7 without interruption.
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