Can you build a computer at home?
There is absolutely nothing self-sufficient about computer hardware
No, and that's the reason we're now paying twice what we paid a couple years ago. But I can write software at home.
We're already vulnerable to enshittification in so many areas, why increase the list? How does that work in my favor at all?
Or generate electricity? Or grow enough food to survive? Medicines?
"Self-sufficiency" arguments coming from tech nerds are so tiring.