Micro-consulting sounds like hell. Sales are a huge drag on any expert trying to capitalise. By the very nature of their business they need fewer but larger deals.
Since the data won't change frequently it might be worth trying to load it into ClickHouse. I've had needle-in-haystack searches on multi-million row tables speed up by 2 orders of magnitude over PG.
Video and music production, game development, stock trading, book writing. You've got every prerequisit by the time you hit 30, you can do anything at a global level.
Exactly, a blog should read as though it comes from one voice. People can subconciously tell if more than one author is involved in a piece of written work.
Have you looked at QGIS? You can drag OSM files onto it and add layers from loads of different data sources. It's a GUI app that runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Around 2001 I thought C++ was the only real programming language and that LAMP was just going to be a hobby. Also, learning to cold call local businesses doesn't require a high school diploma, sooner you can get into it, the better.
As a small biz you often hire contractors and its important that they focus on delivering value, not adhere to pre-established tool mandates.
As for perm staff, computers are cheap since they can last for years. Windows, and Macs aren't that expensive in the grand scheme of things.
I do have a handful of Raapberry Pis in a food wearhouse but I'm not doing to demand any analyst to stop using Tableau on their mac when they digging through my order book looking for oppurtunities.
At some point you need to realise you only need to go to work to make money and further your career. Then, self employment becomes a natural path to turn to. When you eventually find clients, at some point you'll realise selling tech, rather than coding it, is much more important. It's at that point that the day-to-day of your current client's businesses isn't important and finding more clients is all that matters.