[mycall]

Offline is another use case.

[seanmcdirmid]

Nothing like playing around with LLMs on an airplane without an internet connection.

[asteroidburger]

If I can afford a seat above economy with room to actually, comfortably work on a laptop, I can afford the couple bucks for wifi for the flight.

[seanmcdirmid]

If you are assuming that your Hainan airlines flight has wifi that isn't behind the GFW, even outside of cattle class, I have some news for you...

[sach1]

Getting around the GFW is trivially easy.

[seanmcdirmid]

ya ya, just buy a VPN, pay the yearly subscription, and then have them disappear the week after you paid. Super trivially frustrating.

[vntok]

VPN providers are first and foremost trust businesses. Why would you choose and pay one that is not well established and trusted? Mine have been there for more than a decade by now.

Alternatively, you could just set up your own (cheaper?) VPN relay on the tiniest VPS you can rent on AWS or IBM Cloud, right?

[MangoToupe]

Woah there Mr Money, slow down with these assumptions. A computer is worth the investment. But paying a cent extra to airlines? Unacceptable.

[seanmcdirmid]

The $3000 that a MBP M3 Max with 64GB of RAM costs might cover a round trip business class ticket for a trans pacific…if it is on sale (a Chinese carrier probably with GFW internet).

[diggan]

Some of us don't have the most reliable ISPs or even network infrastructure, and I say that as someone who lives in Spain :) I live outside a huge metropolitan area and Vodafone fiber went down twice this year, not even counting the time the country's electricity grid was down for like 24 hours.