The AI companies are trying to make it as difficult as possible to get a good PC
This is a wild theory if I ever heard one
they bought their own hardware to investigate hosting local models.
That’s going to be incredibly hard to make economical I bet, unless you have the ability to basically max out the utilization of the hardware around the clock.
Podcast ads are dynamically injected at the time of downloading by the podcast host, based on factors such as the IP of the device downloading, and whatever other fingerprinting it can figure out at the time of download. You can see it in action by enabling a VPN through a country far away and notice the ads switching language.
AntennaPod is not adding its own ads (it’s non-commercial, after all) and is not doing anything to help advertisers in their ad targeting.
The amount of tyre wear pollution from a bicycle is negligible, to the point where they are not even worth mentioning in these types of conversations.
It’s not really a bubble if you have to shoot someone pop it