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Why hack, play, learn and do something for fun, and take the time to write about it when one can pay 30 bucks for the thing and be done?
by slig 3y ago
Why hack, play, learn and do something for fun, and take the time to write about it when one can pay 30 bucks for the thing and be done?
- shiroiuma 3y agoPersonally, I don't have much interest in doing anything DIY if I can just buy something inexpensively that does the same job at least as well as whatever I'd build. If I'm going to build something, I want it to be unique somehow: to do that job better than the off-the-shelf solution, or add a useful feature I can't get by buying, for instance. I don't know enough about the subject of this particular article to say if this is the case here, but personally I think doing something that's a poorer version of a cheaper off-the-shelf solution is a bit of a waste of time, but if they're doing something different, that's really interesting to me.