Exact same.

I’ve run some local llms (3060, 12g vram), and I daily generate images locally (wouldn’t pay for that), but I do pay for a chatgpt subscription. I think it’s worth it for my purposes. Responses are way faster and higher quality than any local model I’ve tried, web search integration, image recognition, mobile app seamless, I use all of those features regularly. Unfortunately I’ve never ver used POE so I can’t compare, sorry.

Not always necessary but can be nice: Bug repellent A cooler with water/ice Shoes/sandals/flip flops for walking in sand

Agreed but just start with the pro and always buy it on a sale, they go on sale for basically every possible reason.