[PessimalDecimal]

It doesn't. There's seemingly no connection between the handful of examples of self-hosting software actually getting worse, and the earlier point about hardware costs.

[adastra22]

This is a year-in-review article. A scattering of topics is the point.

[weikju]

I suppose writing an article title is hard. The article could be about a few different related things. The hardware and the software side of it.

That’s about all I’ll say though, not my article.