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With tailscale, you can establish a private LAN over the internet. Iroh embeds this directly into the app itself.

Use tag-based node authentication. Login as a user and then switch the device to use a tag. I just recently did that and retained the usual 6 months expiry. I can also disable key expiry completely.

Skill issue. Not to mention the ongoing effort required to maintain and secure the service. But even before that, a lot of people are behing CGNAT. Tailscale makes punching a hole through that very easy. Otherwise you have to run your own relay server somewhere in the cloud.

What? You still have to install the binary via your package manager. Most OMZ plugins are basically a bunch of shell completions or aliases.

>Yet if I spent one hour making my app one second faster for my million users, I can save 277 user hour per year. But since user hours are an externality, such optimization never gets done.

I have never been convinced by this argument. The aggregate number sounds fantastic but I don't believe that any meaningful work can be done by each user saving 1 second. That 1 second (and more) can simply be taken by me trying to stretch my body out.

OTOH, if the argument is to make software smaller, I can get behind that since it will simply lead to more efficient usage of existing resources and thus reduce the environmental impact.

But we live in a capitalist world and there needs to be external pressure for change to occur. The current RAM shortage, if it lasts, might be one of them. Otherwise, we're only day dreaming for a utopia.

I am not a system programmer but, from my understanding, Torvalds has expressed strong opinions about microkernels over a long period of time. The concept looks cleaner on paper but the complexity simply outweighs all the potential benefits. The debate, from what I have followed, expressed similar themes as monolithic vs microservices in the wider software development arena.

Sure. Till an extent. And if you run some mission-critical application, definitely.

But most applications run fine from local storage and can tolerate some downtime. They might even benefit from the improved performance. You can also fix the durability and disaster recovery concerns by setting up on RAID/ZFS and maintaining proper backups.

No. DO can be equally noisy but I've always tried their regular instances and not their premium AMD/Intel ones.

Inability to build a business easily nor allow others to build one. The union culture is way too strong. There is a joke that the Kerala model of development requires a rich oil state nearby.

If you don't have a lot of services to access, you can hard code the tailscale IP address in /etc/hosts.

My personal /etc/hosts is at 10 services all hard coded since the internal IP address of a machine on tailscale is static. Way cheaper and easier to deal with than setting up a separate DNS resolver.

Of course that won't work if you have hundreds or thousands of services to work with.

If I may ask which model are you using? I have tried OCR'ing my bank statements in AI studio and the results have been less than optimal. Specifically it has a tendency to ignore certain instructions combined with screwing up the order.

Some pointers on what worked for you would be greatly appreciated.

>don't ask them if they want it or not

After reading the book my understanding was to not even ask this question. See if they have already tried to solve the problem by looking for another app or going to excruciating lengths to solve it another way. If yes, then they will probably buy your product.