What exactly would you like? If you want something like an EC2 instance (or the google/azure equivalent), those have volumes are encrypted at rest, and you can install all your services you need including a VPN and SSL certificates.

Amazon Rekgnition struggles a little more but it’s still reading the blurry text instead of the lines

You can take a screenshot or save the image directly. My iPhone reads the blurry text without issue, so this may be more related to LLMs in particular, or of the image is compressed before the analysis, the illusion is broken

I don’t think downloading the titles is enough. While you and me may have enough space in a spare HDD for every movie we ever purchased, my parents certainly don’t have enough space on their iPads; and even then they wouldn’t be able to watch them in their living rooms. These digital storefronts should be forced to serve the movies they sell for streaming indefinitely so people like my parents have a way to watch the content they paid for with the same simplicity they had when they bought them

“The 30 minute pizza party will be deducted from your weekly budget of 60 minutes without AI monitoring”

I also find it very useful to bounce ideas, like an interactive rubber duck. Even when it’s wrong it can help me think out loud or elaborate ideas. It’s also very useful to help me set up tests, raise and delete environments, write documentation, etc. all things that I can do on my own, it can help make implementation faster. AI can be useful when you use it like a tool. I know it can and will make mistakes, but like all tools it can help make things faster when used correctly.

Even if/when we replace fossil fuels with renewables, we still need a solution for surges, and nuclear would fit that very well

Many of the inactive instances are probably from people who tried self hosting and then gave up. Just my theory.