that was an attempt at monocle and top hat irony.

edit: how do you feel about paying 5% on every token's cost to stripe? it made me cancel, and sign up directly with a few providers.

> attempt at ... irony

For the record, I did laugh, I just didn't type it out.

> how do you feel about paying 5% on every token's cost to stripe?

Life is compromise. In a perfect world, I'd love to buy a linux native system comparable to the Mac Studio that could run something in the ballpark of Deepseek V4 flash "fast" at home.

Not only does that not exist, but even if it did I couldn't justify the cost. Between work and home my annual token spend is maybe 3k.

So... paying a 5% fee on a service that allows me to not shell out 10k on hardware at home still seems like a pretty sweet deal.

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Plus, I still am learning a ton and playing lots. It's hard to imagine anything beating openrouter for that. So much exposure to all the latest LLMs...