That's like saying you don't bother learning what illnesses your animals or crops may contract, and how to prevent/cure them, because you're not wealthy. Buying a book and reading it, to the improve your abilities, is time well spent.

Most maintenance on a tractor is not major, and require basic skill and parts. It's the companies that don't want this, they want specialized technicians to come out to replace an oil filter.

I have a 30 year old vacuum cleaner, which I continue to maintain, which mostly amounts to stripping it once every 10 years and cleaning out all the filters that caked up with fine dust. Definitely cheaper to strip it myself one evening, than to pay someone to do it, or purchase a new one. It is like an hour of work for years of service.

I would still contend and say the gambling aspect, with real money, is a net negative to the community.

It makes is substantially easier to work with known design docs, and RasPi want people to use their hardware in embedded applications.

It's not like you can replicate their hardware with just the schematic. Its awesome to see other filling the gap, but its a gap that has no need to exist.

I'd argue that it only helps check a tick box on corporate security manifest, as it indicates the kernel being booted, is not tampered with.

Or just rented for a bunch of seedboxes anonymously

Then the article only accounts for Midjourney, which is only one of the operators in this space. All the major tech companies have huge fleets of server working on this.

https://github.com/MustaphaTR/Romanovs-Vengeance

I'd argue that the quality of a fry/chip does depend on the type of potatoes used. My experience is frozen fries are mediocre at best.

Even on a commercial scale, its a peeling machine and a cutting/chipping machine, no worse than a mixing machine for making dough or similar industrial kitchen machines.