Because the people paying them think they’re going to earn it back.

When you are a well-known or household name, your presence alone can convince a lot of people to watch whatever product you’re in. Not just that, entertainment is inherently a risky business. Replacing unknowns with celebrities means reducing that risk, replacing it with known factors.

In other words, because the market thinks they’re worth it.

Is there typically such a massive difference between using http://local_ip:3000 and https://speed.mydomain.com/?

Only if they resolve to different addresses.

Wow, some promise!

Supabase is often mentioned. It’s open source and has a free tier, though it is VC driven so I’m sure it’ll enshittify at some point.

… You mean desktop.ini?

I would add: until it doesn’t.

All accurate, except the Microsoft one. Microsoft makes you pay for enterprise development tools, but not for libraries.

There’s a few, some of them have a free tier, most of them are paid. They are often geared towards role play or storytelling. If you search for uncensored roleplaying AI I’m sure you’ll find some.

Interesting what this guy and Elon Musk have in common…

You’re the one making the assertion that it’s wordy. The onus is on you to try and qualify that.

“Just kidding… Unless?”

I have to ask, even though I’m afraid of the answer, exactly how many USB storage devices are you (planning on) hooking up to that poor machine?

Can’t wait for the breakout movie!

I enjoy that they’ve had to raise prices above what consumers might pay for an entire month if they want to play this trick on me.

That really doesn’t contribute anything to the merits of his remarks or not though.

No. People who want the benefit of self housing without worrying about hardware will rent a vps or something simpler. The hard part of hardware isn’t the purchase, it’s the maintenance.

Also, why the separate router?

What even is your point? Besides not acknowledging that language evolves.

Funnily enough, the reason they switched to those was to use the data to train machine learning (AI) models, just like Google’s recaptcha was originally pictures of words from old, scanned books so they could transcribe all of them “for free” and train their transcription algorithms.

Have you passed their captive portal before turning on the VPN?

Yeah, they’re put there by a tomatow-truck.