Same price as some pure bred dogs too

I find that thought reassuring. There is less of a gap between oneself and the greats than one might think.

And then once the answer is found an additional prompt is given to tidy up and present the solution clearly?

You're conflating type 1 and 2 (and more?) diabetes.

A cure for type 1 diabetes is very much a thing millions of people really need

AFAIK, insulin therapy is already relatively cheap and does not incur risky side-effects.

So, I'd say that a cure falls more in the "nice to have" than "absolutely need".

Just plug your API keys into a front end like https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI and pay as you go for all commercially available models

Have you tried open-webui?[1] I've been using that and really loving it, but wondering if I should try out big-AGI

[1]: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

Not to add more to the mix, but I've been very happy with Librechat: https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat

LibreChat is also one of the few LLM chat interfaces that works with both external APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) and local ones (hosted via Ollama, etc) out of the box.

If it has a downside, I'd say its a little more involved to get setup, lots of docker containers, etc then a more batteries-included approach like Jan.

https://github.com/janhq/jan

Pi5 is plenty, even overkill for a pihole. I run a pihole on my old pi2 and it's absolutely fine

An unknown thing becomes a non obvious thing, which makes it interesting. Until it becomes obvious, of course.

Who really knows _that_ much about anything though? Few people are experts in a given topic. Although I see your point, I suppose more people would be good to recognise that, especially about themselves.

That said, this is a fairly general forum and (mostly) for entertainment purposes right?

I mean, every time you use an electric device you're making a small purchasing decision.

It's wrong comparison. Flipping all switches in a room doesn't get you much added value beyond what's necessary.

Or if there ever is a "big crunch" where all black holes crunch together to a critical mass, would there be another big bang and time then run backwards?

The hypothesis I have encountered is that time would reverse when the expansion of the universe peaked and started to collapse back in on itself. The next big bang would start another run of our universe. I'm guessing the randomness in quantum fluctuations would allow this next run to evolve somewhat differently from the one we are experiencing.