https://github.blog/2024-01-17-github-hosted-runners-double-the-power-for-open-source/ is exciting:

From now on, any Linux or Windows workflow triggered from a public repository, using GitHub’s default labels, will run on our faster, more powerful [4-vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 150GiB storage] runners.

Here’s to fewer timeouts

LOL. I just posted this in #random before I saw your post here

That's great! Those weak runners were causing us a lot of trouble