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The difference between a junior SRE and a dev is that during an outage the dev will take responsibility for their own code only[1]

While the SRE will follow the problem to the next layer or component and try understand what is going wrong there even though they never heard of the system 10 minutes ago.

[1] "I know I'm on call for this team but the guy who sits next to me wrote that code" is something I've heard way too many times.

The economic model was lots of advertising

Go find a newspaper from 2000 or earlier. It will have whole sections (20 pages or so each) of advertising for jobs, real-estate and other classifieds. In some places every government job had to be advertised in the newspaper.

All that paid for the newspaper. Usually before it was even printed.

Thats the source of cost you need to replace.

I found out that a closed church I walk past regularly was called "St Chad's"

Free public transport takes away money that can be used to improve service for everyone. Someone on minimum wage would prefer a bus they can actually use to get to work rather than having to buy/maintain a car because the free bus only comes once an hour.

Have targeted low fares for the poor etc.

Personally at home I use the free github copilot and then openrouter when that runs out. Last month I used $0.90 of openrouter. Zero so far this month. When my bill starts hitting double digits I'll consider options.

Different matter at work but even there we are paying for API costs and have a monthly allowance (starts at $200/month but increases fairly easy to get)

A founder at my company does this. Sells $$$ of shares every few weeks.

Amusing the press report the sales as if he's selling due to something that's happening to the company that week.

The meetup app costs money for organisers except for the smallest meetings (10 people or less)

Well I guess where you live going 15km/h over the speed limit is accepted like in many parts of the USA.

However in general most 1st world countries have more strict enforcement of speeding than the US does. So the speeding laws are not a good example of unenforced.

He's in a medium sized town (35,000 people) with no real IT jobs, hence the remote requirement.

However there will no doubt plenty of electrician jobs

I'll guess you are from living in the USA

In other countries going over the speed limit a small amount will get you fined and your license suspended if you do it by enough or often.

People in countries like Australia have to warn US visitors that they have to keep below the speed limit