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@ -53,6 +53,43 @@ There is no way of using it without being constantly confronted with them.
If you're not willing to reflect, introspect, grow and most importantly **stop**, you will not be happy with Valetudo.
## Valetudo is not about you
Valetudo is a solution I built to a problem I had that I shared with the world, because I naively assumed that the cost of sharing would be zero.<br/>
That was a profound underestimation but now here we are. Can't stop now as that would be weird.
This means one crucial thing: **Valetudo does not exist to solve your problems**.<br/>
It might solve them, and that's great if it does, but that's coincidence, not purpose.
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While on the topic of what Valetudo is about, I need to address something.<br/>
Something I've over the years observed countless times - always leading to entirely unnecessary conflict.
It is people building their identity - or at least large chunks of it - around installing and using Valetudo (or any other FOSS software for that matter).
And in principle, I could partially empathize with that and do agree that people can and should feel proud of themselves for taking control of their technology.
That said, the reason I'm mentioning it here is that it's not always just people feeling proud in a healthy way.<br/>
Instead, it sometimes turns pathological:
It becomes a **make-believe hero story** where reality gets twisted to maintain that narrative.
A story where someone isn't just a user of a piece of software that followed a guide in the docs both written by someone else.<br/>
A story where someone becomes a powerful tech wizard who _purely on their own_ freed their robot, took agency and is generally better, smarter and more important than all the others.<br/>
And when cognitive dissonance threatens that false story, people attack what they perceive as the source of it - me.
What makes this truly sad is the human suffering behind it.<br/>
No one who is doing well in their life clings this desperately to a borrowed identity.
And the tragedy is that it's unnecessary. Identity isn't a zero-sum game.
You can achieve something and _also_ acknowledge achievements of other people that made your achievement possible.
Those other achievements do not take away from your achievement.
I know that it is weird for someone to just write such a text in such a place with such bold claims, but if you run into the same-style conflict for the better part of a decade, you eventually spot patterns.
Sadly, this _could_ be a welcoming space for the people affected, but those patterns ruin any possibility for that to happen - and also my day on a weekly basis.
So please just don't be like that, okay?<br/>
Use the software, be proud of yourself - but do so in a healthy fashion
## Valetudo replaces the Cloud
Valetudo is a cloud replacement, meaning that it replaces the cloud.<br/>