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Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Like in what case? Even just in terms of material and ignoring the cost of one's own time and the tools required, it's usually cheaper to buy.

There is legit only a few things where it makes sense from an economic point of view to make on your own. Most hobby craftsman don't do it for the money. There's something to be said about quality but that takes practice and hence, more money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

idk man, i've found it vastly cheaper to buy lumber and build tables from that lumber, which are going to be vastly more durable than anything you can buy for that price.

You do need tools of course, but you might know someone that has some, or you can simply get into wood working, and start saving more money. They'll pay for themselves eventually.

PCs? You can often build those specifically to your needs, much cheaper than what can be found on the existing market. Especially for servers. Sure i spent 600 dollars on 36 TB of hard drives. How expensive is 18TB of cloud storage over the period of 5 years? (you might say 36TB* actually, but it's redundant for backup purposes. Trust me, it's worth it.)