AndroTux

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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   Well, the service provider was ready to provide you with it. They kept your account, your data and ensured the service is available for you to use. Why should they care about whether you use the service or not? It's like renting an apa
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   Yeah, Twitter is totally comparable in that case, $50 a month is exactly the same thing as however many Millions of Dollars Twitter is paying to GCS/AWS with presumably custom contracts. But just to humor you: https://techcr
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   > I would expect a billing warning notice when I SSH into the service though. Maybe that was in place for the 30 days before they shut the customer out. I certainly hope so. I would not expect Digital Ocean to alter the MOTD configuratio
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   For a business that makes checks notes 50 bucks a month in revenue with DO? If this were the case, prices would be astronomically high because there would be tons of scammers and bad actors abusing this system, leaving their servers runni
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   > But the worst Digital Ocean incident we ever had was when they turned all our droplets off all at once. The credit card entered into the account had expired, there was no backup card, and the contact email on the account went to a shar
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   I’d assume they have to use Bing Translate instead of something decent like DeepL.
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   That is on an M1 laptop. No dedicated GPU, not even an M1 Max. Just plain M1. Of course, it's not running super fast on Ultra settings, but imagine how slow it would be on a comparable Intel laptop with onboard graphics eating through
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   https://gpt4all.io/ works fairly well on my 16 GB M1 Pro MacBook. It's certainly not on a level with ChatGPT, but what is? It's a simple app download and allows you to select from multiple available models. No hac
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   by AndroTux 3y ago

   5 bucks that at least the conclusion was written by ChatGPT.
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    by AndroTux 3y ago

    Wow, they even managed to simulate the choppy animations!