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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by otterley on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @04:57PM (#46295145)
> The problem here is that this is like a grocery store charging me money for every bag I bring to bag my own groceries.

This is an odd take because you're completely discounting the value of the orchestration. In your grocery store analogy, who's the orchestrator? It isn't you.

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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by featherless on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:01PM (#46295191)
Do you feel that orchestration runs on a per-minute basis?
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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by otterley on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:03PM (#46295228)
As long as they're reserving resources for your job during the period of execution, it does.
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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by featherless on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:44PM (#46295711)
Charging people to maintain a row in a database by the minute is top-tier, I agree.
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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by otterley on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:44PM (#46296331)
If you really think that's all it is, I would encourage you to write your own.
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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by featherless on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:47PM (#46296353)
It would be silly to write a new one today. Plenty of open source + indy options to invest into instead.

For scheduled work, cron + a log sink is fine, and for pull request CI there's plenty of alternatives that don't charge by the minute to use your own hardware. The irony here, unfortunately, is that the latter requires I move entirely off of GitHub now.

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