I professionally work in IT without formal education or any related career. It’s one field where you can really teach everything yourself with free online resources.

In fact my self hosting journey has taught me things that were later useful for work. I consider it part of my informal education.

Nah. Emulate, enjoy the games you want and don’t give them any money.

It’s one of the small instances we have the upper hand to the corporate overlords. Let’s take advantage of it.

They take advantage of you in every single aspect they can. They respect nothing, so… don’t respect them back, pirate them!

Wildly surrounded. I’m very used to interact with people with vastly different political opinions.

I have a straight up openly francoist coworker.

But I’m also surrounded by a lot of left leaning people. It’s kind of diverse here right now.

Anyway, I think it’s better for you to have to think the arguments rather than you repeating arguments you heard somewhere else. It would make you find your own believes, and have a firmer consolidation on why you believe in what you believe.