You’re spending an awful lot of time telling me I don’t get to reply to comments off my own thread. Maybe stop and realize that my original comment didn’t need any replies and y’all are the ones wasting your time and energy arguing downthread instead of getting smart enough to go start your own thread if you want to express yourself.

It’s 2026, not 1996. Its time to grow up and learn how threaded conversations work. They aren’t new. It’s awful weird that you’re struggling so much with the concept.

But sure. Keep screeching “STFU” like a child. I’m sure that somehow, somewhere, someone on the internet might actually listen to you. But that someone is not me. I don’t listen to the demands of children.

Oh noes. Some internet rando called me names because I wouldn’t provide free labor for them. You sure told me.

“Sounds to me like…”

Nobody asked you? Why do we care what you think?

Sounds to me like you’re insecure and looking for a free handout instead of being able to come up with a coherent reason for why you’re owed something you’ve not earned.

Thanks for continuing to put your inexperience on display. If you’re so certain you’re right, you don’t need my answer.

Thats a lot of words to say nothing of value.

Projection ain’t just for the cinemas.

You don’t see the deal breaker because your requirements are clearly low enough that open-core software works for your use case. Your experience is not universal. Your inexperience is leading you to believe you’re more knowledgeable than you really are. I don’t need to explain myself to someone that engages in bad faith arguments.

Let me guess, you chose Gitlab because you’re a DHH fanboy?

If you have to ask the question, you haven’t made a serious comparison of the two.

what’s taking people so long

besides the fact that there’s no decent alternative for workloads of a certain size/scale?

“Daddy, why does everyone work until they die? Why is the sky filled with satellite debris? Why is the water poison? Why are there no more winters?”

“Well, Daddy needs a paycheck because Daddy was prioritizing creature comforts and sold himself into wage slavery. Daddy’s been voting in favor of Corporatist entrenchment for decades. Daddy would rather have his Amazon Prime than be uncomfortable living without his consumerist devices to distract him from what his choices are doing to the planet.”

“Daddy’s also been selling your eyeballs to advertisers since before you could form coherent thoughts because he’d rather let the iPad babysit you than be a real parent. Daddy’s too busy doomscrolling Pornhub.”

Oh dear. The consequences of ones own choices. It’s almost like you’re trying to dictate the creature comforts of your cell, not eliminate the imprisonment entirely.

Maybe you should think real hard about the asymmetry in your position.

For some people the choice to use a bot or not is a choice of having the job, or not.

Going to work for yourself is always an option. Ask any street busker. Insinuating it isn’t is your complicity.