No one else is going to basically give everyone free git hosting with such generosity as Microsoft.

I think LMMs have made it impossible for unlimited free repos for everyone to work.

PSA: You can still create PRs with the gh cli tool.

“You need to use cloud services because the uptime can’t be matched if you run it yourself”

I mean it’s true, but not in a good way.

So much software engineering going on

It's utterly unreliable. I laughed when I read the title. We moved our company to self hosted Forgejo a while ago and literally the day after, there was a major disruption on GitHub. Their service also isn't that great even when it works. We decided to move because they abrupt ly disabled all our LFS access without any prior warning causing a private outage for our developers. Fun!