Ah, yeah...that's exactly the same thing. Great point. Totally changed my mind!
Edit: Your edit clarifies things a bit. Eh, I got my start in software development working on an emulated Lineage 2 server ~20 years ago, and eventually building my own server from the ground up which extended the game in ways that the normal servers / client didn't support. I think tinkering is fine if that's what interests you.
I don't spend much time these days with games (compared to the past) regardless.
It’s like comparing the experience of buying an iPhone at an Apple Store versus ordering one online.
At the Apple Store, an employee will take off the protective film and actually help you set it up properly (RDS).
Running a benchmark on a default, unconfigured self-hosted Postgres instance is like receiving that online iPhone order, seeing it covered in shipping film, not bothering to transfer from your last phone, and trying to use it anyway.
Concluding that self-hosted is slower based on that is like complaining the iPhone screen is unresponsive while refusing to peel off the plastic just because "that's how it came out of the box." You are expected to take the film off before you use it.
I could see something like this working if you actually had a assigned human developer(s) to assist the task. There are few interesting tasks that can actually be completed in one (or few) shot and have anything usable.
Generally fast charging has been a much harder nut to crack than fast discharge. If you have fast charging you necessarily have fast discharge in my experience.
It means I'm in the tax bracket that gets to pick up the slack for people who make way more than me but don't pay their fair share.
I want a competent government who directs the funds in an appropriate way. Not one who sets up a shush fund, using my (tax) money, to pay their private army of thugs.
I pretty much skipped XP entirely when I was a kid. I had 98se on my first (handmedown) computer, and when I built my first machine I put win2k pro on it, because it had a debloated UI and none of that fancy animation crap. I used that until I got a 64bit machine years later and had to suffer through XP (64bit) which was way buggier than regular XP SP2.
That is what I thought op was saying when he used the word "understood". No need to jump on people using every day language that is still easily understood in context IMO.