+200 people/orgs are listed as vite github sponsors

200 people out of how many hundreds of thousands of users? Are they giving an average $5 a month, for a grand total of $12000 a year? Maybe a little bit more?

How many FTEs does that pay for?

realistically most gopros ever sold are collecting dust in some drawer, and if you have a GoPro 5 from 10 years ago that does 4K video, there isn't really a need to keep buying new ones ...

I use a GoPro Hero Session on a motorcycle helmet mount and it's perfect. I bought it nearly 10 years ago. Still works great!

Definitely similar experience, building the "boring infra stuff" around it is a time-sink no one prepares you for...

what have you guys tried?

How come ISPs aren't providing that data internally from observing their own traffic ?

I'm sure they do, but data about the speeds of other ISPs is also valuable.

I'm not sure about broadband data, as it can't be that useful. However on the mobile side, it's fairly valuable as a mobile app can collect A-GPS location and sensor telemetry that are unknown to the MNO otherwise.

I'm willing to bet this is just an easily bypassable SynthID check

google can kill your account for using an unsupported harness when/if they choose

Complete bs. Gemini models are on OpenRouter just like any other models.

But then you have to pay by the token instead of the subsidized subscription prices

oh, so finally it is about money not open source.

Off topic i know but, who goes from SF to Tokyo for a 6 day "vintage shopping trip" ? Who do they think their audience is here?

Another perspective from the posters saying "rich people"; in most advertising, it is aimed at aspiration and not reality - so "people who want to be rich leisure class people, or social media influencers", which tracks for a low-end laptop for a younger phone-native audience.

Advertising aimed at the actually rich is usually more about saving time, "elevated" experiences, or building legacy.

> "people who want to be rich leisure class people, or social media influencers"

And about 0.5% of this target group want anything to do with Android [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-rules-gen-z-nearly-90-...

Like most things in tech, it's targeted at upper middle class or rich people since they have way way more disposable income. It's a "premium Chromebook" which, as much as I like Chromebooks, seems like you would need a lot of disposable income before considering since most actually resource intensive stuff (video games, video editing, etc) you wouldn't get a Chromebook for.

I think you're probably right, but "premium Chromebook" is such an oxymoron. People with money just buy Macs.

My wife and I actually went to Tokyo for a vintage shopping trip haha. I went to Shinjuku to buy vintage camera lenses and she went to Omotesando to buy a vintage bag. I mean, we did other stuff besides vintage shopping too, like eating good food, but still.

I'm not a big shopper, but vintage shopping in Japan was so much fun. I get it.

From past phone launch ads, its usually the people who were always looking for dinner reservations, concert booking, meeting at drinks. Basically leisure class people. So this vintage shopping trip seems to fit right in.

I think half of SF that works in tech has done a 1 week tokyo trip in the past year

The ZipAir direct flight can get you a week long trip from SF to Tokyo for ~$750 outside of peak seasons, although I'm not sure what their rates for extra bags are if you were only going to shop.

the last time I went to Japan was I think 2015 and the exchange rate was about 120 yen to the dollar. I bought almost all of the clothing that I wore for the next year or two during a stretch of three days in Tokyo. The exchange rate right now is 155 yen to the dollar and prices on everything in the US have gone through the roof, so this doesn't seem all that ridiculous to me. I am more annoyed by the assumption that I live in SF than the idea that I might go from SF to Tokyo on a vintage shopping trip.

If you watched the rest of the announcements, apparently social media influencers.

The "trick" that worked for me so far is to ask the person in the next table nicely if I can leave it by their side for a moment.

Statistically they're more likely to be honest rather than a thief of opportunity

This is a much better project

Where a huge percentage of participants will have trouble getting visas

Or at least that's what Fox News told you.

I've been to all three countries, you just go there with no fuss or problems.

The other person commenting does have a point, if you're inviting a bunch of attendees from the 'global south' nations, there's many places in South America, Africa, where it is difficult, complicated and by no means guaranteed to get a Schengen zone visa. You can't just "go there".

Ah, good point, a number of the people going to RightsCon would by definition be coming from countries where this was difficult. I withdraw 'n apologise.