If you use a VPN to put your location in a less expensive country like India you can sign up for YT Premium at a significantly lower rate (like a dollar or two a month)
You'll need to use a credit card you haven't used with Google before and look up a legitimate address for that country to use as the billing address.
Once you've completed the sign-up you no longer need to use a VPN to fake your location and you can just use YT Premium as normal, but at a much cheaper price point
Wait, you tunnel queries to your upstream DNS through a VPN?
I use Tailscale to do this and it works quite well. I also use it to keep my pihole always reachable from my devices so I can continue to use it as my DNS server even when my phone is on cell data, etc.
I run a secondary Pihole on an AWS host that is also linked by tailscale as a fallback
I finally pulled the trigger (again, hopefully for good this time) after a nonconsensual Windows update corrupted my disk and my bitlocker recovery key was not accepted.
That was a couple months ago now and I'm happy to report that not only is game compatibility on Linux loads better than last time I tried this but I can corroborate that many of my games also perform better on Linux than they did on the same system in Windows
I'm not really saying it is, I'm just unsure where that line is.
Modifying existing artwork to make something new has always been a thing.
Is there a point where Photoshop might become too easy to use and then anyone using it is no longer an artist?
One could certainly argue that creating anything of actual value with AI does require a certain level of skill. That skill may be less of an artistic one and more of a technical one, but software developers also have value, even when the tools they use make it much easier than it was in the past.
I guess what I'm getting at is while I agree with you there's a large gap between having the skill to create art yourself with a paintbrush and coaxing an AI into doing most of the work for you, I'm not sure it's so black and white and the line is only going to get blurrier.
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