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Yeah... Maybe if you use that crap Microsoft owned system you should be looking at migrating off it. Think about it. If you go local, you don't go down when AWS/GCP/Azure goes down... They have been doing that a lot these days...

Archive: https://archive.is/wip/t5jsT

From the post:

>Following publication of our original article, GitHub reversed its decision. The Microsoft-owned developer site has taken to X to admit it might have made a mistake by unilaterally announcing plans to charge people for using their own hardware to host runners. “We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback,” GitHub said. “We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.” The company said that it still intends to do something to help offset the “real costs” in running GitHub Actions via self-hosted runners, but “we missed the mark with this change by not including more of you in our planning.”

Yeah... Maybe if you use that crap Microsoft owned system you should be looking at migrating off it. Think about it. If you go local, you don't go down when AWS/GCP/Azure goes down... They have been doing that a lot these days... Archive: https://archive.is/wip/t5jsT From the post: >>Following publication of our original article, GitHub reversed its decision. The Microsoft-owned developer site has taken to X to admit it might have made a mistake by unilaterally announcing plans to charge people for using their own hardware to host runners. “We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback,” GitHub said. “We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.” The company said that it still intends to do something to help offset the “real costs” in running GitHub Actions via self-hosted runners, but “we missed the mark with this change by not including more of you in our planning.”
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The big trap in using the "cloud" - other people's data centers - it's convenient and ultimately expensive. A cloud infrastructure only gets more expensive as time goes by. More people use data centers and dump their own hardware, this causes cloud data centers to charge more while delivering less.

I essentially started my own data center. I don't rely on other people's hardware. It's cheap and reliable. I don't understand why companies don't understand this.

I work for a company where a single group spends over $100K per month for cloud infrastructure. I get emails constantly telling us to limit our hardware usage. Huh? It's insane. I never had this problem with bare metal. Ever.

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I should start a freedom-focused and privacy-focused Co-Op for DC and internet. Sounds like there would be a LOT of want for something like that.