I almost forgot about the winamp video streams. I do still remember the 24/7 red Vs blue stream that was on it though!

The species has existed for longer than Pleiades

Now that blows my mind. I often think of astrological timescales to be so much longer than anything on earth.

I think it might be something that happens during that short pause before a video starts?

Internet down? That's ok I have stuff on my jellyfin.

Na this is vide ops. Anyone who thought a coding machine could do ops probably assumes anyone who codes can also do ops. It's going to be making the same mistakes that have happened in DevOps.

PSP?

I feel like those platform ideas came initially from people who wanted to build something cool. Something people would use. The ads were a side effect of being part of the tech company.

Now I feel they are built because it's a way to show ads or harvest data.

Not sure, xp might be too new. I've definitely seen nt 4 on an ATM before.

Which features though. Edge? Copilot? Media player? Installing outside the store? Access to terminal? The filesystem? Uptime per day?

This is why I've never taken up the "free tiers" of these big cloud hosting. I looked in to it and there was absolutely no way to limit billing. There is reports and some people say, "setup automation," but that is something they should have done. Why do I have to code features into their platform?

The lack of control is intentional, the business is happy when this happens as they can extract more money from people.

Not to mention what if someone does something silly like start a war and push the price of oil up. Solar does not increase in price after it's made.

They need to lower the price of the hosted desktops then, it's still way more cost effective over time to buy a laptop/desktop for a 3 years cycle than to rent a monthly virtual desktop. The only business that wants it are opex obsessives that hate any capex.