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> I (mostly) stopped with the tech sperg shit for the time being because I no longer find it terribly fulfilling,

Computer science only accidentally makes money for me. I like building out machines, reading research papers, making beautiful solutions, bashing out quick solutions, rattling off stunt-hacks, analyzing data from prototypes, diagnosing and fixing bugs. It's like music, but I can expect to make money doing hacker shit.

> Running a larger instance just sounds like it's all-pain, no-reward.

It's nice to give people a place to be, you know? Gives a fella the warm fuzzies. It is a huge pain in the ass and especially if you take a somewhat aggressive stance about one thing or another (e.g., freedom of speech) you kind of invite people that hate it or think you're doing it wrong, but definitely worth it. (I mean, still spending my money and time and effort on it, you can reason I think it's worth it.)

> I've been working on my print magazine and the technicals of that have proven to be much cooler.

That's cool shit. I hadn't heard of it.

> The technical problems you run into with that tend to revolve around much "realer" things, in terms of physicality. Paper jams. Paper cutter blades getting dull.

Oh, yeah, that's one of the things I like about not being on a VPS or a managed dedi, or doing RF stuff. But that's still circuits, it's not like printing or doing, like, woodworking or cooking or growing a field of corn. It's a completely different thing.

> much cooler to me than arguing with other tech spergs about non-issues like if a field should be url or externalLink.

The trick is to just not argue with them and if they insist on it anyway, have a robot disincentivize them. I like talking hackery but low-quality arguments about shit that doesn't matter are probably the most boring thing imaginable.

> And I'll never have to deal with needing a six million terabyte RAM computer, even if that accounts miraculously gets thousands of followers.

Well, you know my solution to that problem.