I cannot code my way out of a paper bag, unless it is the mid 90’s and it is coded in very basic HTML. I do however sadly use Claude because I do not currently have anything strong enough to run Ollama. I use a lot of open source things but feel guilty about not having money to pay for all the services I use so I like to think of it as a socialist type system; I have scripts to download and share the newest iso torrent’s of pi OS and Debian, I use CrowdSec to catch bots, and I now have my own crawler for mwmbl for searXNG. Are there other things people would suggest I do?
Socialism is the idea that the means of production are owned by everybody (by the society). It sounds like you’re saying you can’t afford to pay for something (in this kind-of-capitalist society) so you “like to think of it” as socialism, which you define as an exchange of goods and services rather than money, but you didn’t describe exchanging anything - you just describe taking something without paying for it.
I disagree with your definition of socialism, and with the idea that socialism (as I defined it) is good.