I forgot where I read this, but the behaviour was partially explained by TV-watching: the plot in TV is laid out methodically, so people will assume that it must be like that in real life and not...well just a coincedence or a just a bunch of nuanced things.
I don’t think its complicated. Companies that sell cloud compute etc would love for you to pay them rather than for you to not pay them. Incentives are aligned for them to prefer you renting from them!
Geerling is cool though. He's just very autistic about SBCs and servers and radio he's actually pretty normal I guess? He doesn't talk about services much except media stuff iirc? Idk I met him and he seems pretty chill
O Liver they're in fear for their stuff from the big bad Microsoft,
Corpos wanna stop them from owning & they've got their hardware locked
O Liver they might call you an organ but you're still watching videos,
Uploaders coming down with delusions but you know "that's how it goes"