There’s all sorts of reasons taxing all compute over a certain threshold is stupid. I ignored it because it’s ignorant of the facts at hand.

At one point or another, compute was scaling exponentially for customers - one day that might begin to happen again. Laws move slowly - and will stupidly end up at a point where the average joe has that level of compute in his phone. Congrats, now you’ve decided to tax everyone because of “compute over a certain threshold”.

You have to tax something that they are doing that an individual is not. If you tax “all compute” then they’re just gonna pull the same shit they do with straws and blame the individual.

You have to tax the action that is replacing a human worker. If a human job is displaced, it gets taxed. Want to AI generate some massive image through prompts? How much would it take a human to complete the job? Take some % of that, and charge it. Play it somewhere along the lines of “Intelligence deserves pay”, and since it’s artificial intelligence - it doesn’t have rights to spend its own pay (or the need to) so put it into a universal income fund.

We’re reaching a post-scarcity society now. We should be making lives easier for everyone.

In my opinion, every AI “worker”, should have to be paid …maybe half minimum wage, and that wage, goes into a universal income fund to be dispersed to the citizens directly. Adjust “half”, for how much pressure needs to be applied to corporations…

Maybe laws adjusted so the amount of work AI does would be on-par with how much a person could…and then billed as such.

AI to remove jobs from workers. 1000%. That’s what the hype is now. Capitalist see workers as an expense. They’re working on getting rid of you any way they can.

Just do Caddy instead of nginx/cerbot all that garbage. Caddy just simply handles it all for you: Subdomains, wildcard certs, authentication, ssl

My whole caddy config file is like 6 lines; something like

@mydomain.com {

ipaddress:port

path:/

}

And you can do all sorts of plugins that make it compatible with fail2ban, etc.

I hear Traefik is pretty easy to set up too.

I don’t even know why everyone keeps getting these no-name bullshit tlds. .com is $12/yr, it basically never changes…

So you run everything through a VPS? Is that so very hard? You don’t use the VPS directly, you use it for the RDNS and static IP.

‘the cloud’ is just someone else’s computer. The cheapest way is always going to be to use your own hardware. Get into homelabbing :D

My domain is just used so I can reverse-proxy my homelab for people who don’t know anything about vpn, etc.