I’m not sure what people are doing with these subscriptions to feel the need to monitor what’s going on this closely. A $100 OpenAI subscription feels effectively infinite for my usage at home

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TuxedoBuddy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some people are fine with an ISP-provided router that just works, and some would rather run pfSense, if even just to look at the internals.

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throwaway_new_1 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>ISP-provided router that just works

I don't remember the last time this was true. These things don't have a 'just works' mode.

	▲	hasyimibhar 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've never touched my ISP-provided router. But maybe it's just how it works in my country (Malaysia), we pretty much only have 1 ISP with monopoly, so maybe that helps.
	▲	robertclaus 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I let them install the free ISP router a year back when they installed fiber in the neighborhood. I assumed I would swap it out the next day, but I haven't had any issues like back in the day. I love shopping for a nice router as much as the next tech nerd, but decent drop-in home networking seems to be pretty commodity now days.
	▲	DANmode an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Exactly how I feel about the two major AI compute dealers.

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viccis an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Cache TTL will get you anyway. For Claude subscriptions, subagents still have a 5m TTL and before I discovered that, their constant waits for ~10 min tests or similar tasks would destroy my 5h usage. And for my API subscription at work, Claude has a 5m TTL for all stuff, and that's nowhere near long enough. You have to be monitoring this unless you want to absolutely torch your company's budget.