> Exactly what I'm doing. Made my own task manager. Have my own harness. Have my own fork of $browser. Whatever.

Dude you didn’t build anything. If you hired some programmers last year, to code up your task manager would you go around claiming that you “built” your task manager? I don’t understand where this “I built this” comes from.

Your joy is that something that was uneconomical before is cheap enough for you to buy now, which is fine, but don’t go getting it mixed up with actually building something.