• RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz
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    19 days ago

    The RTX 5090 now costs EUR 1,830

    Hey, that’s really cheap! Did the RAM shortage somehow stop when I wasn’t looking?

    more than it did a month ago

    Oh.

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      19 days ago

      Yeah, I was thinking that 1,830€ was just a normal ridiculous price for a graphics card.

      …I haven’t shopped for graphics cards in about 6 years…

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    19 days ago

    This is just stupid. Its encroaching on the price of half a car. I mean i love games but that is actually insane. They arent expectng to sell any of those cards right?

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      19 days ago

      I’d hazard that people buying those cards at that price aren’t buying them for gaming, they’re using them to run local AI models

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        19 days ago

        yeah that makes a ton more sense. Still an insane amount to spend on a graphics card, something in my brain breaks a little

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          18 days ago

          it’s out of reach for us, but for some companies this might end up being cheaper than buying AI from american monopolists

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    18 days ago

    What are computer adjacent hobbies that don‘t need a computer? Reading? Guess I will be reading lots of fiction soon. That is unless the government closes libraries in their cost cutting spree after making generous gifts to corporations who probably invested it all in AI. Oh well.

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      18 days ago

      You could tinker with microcontrollers. They’re pretty capable when it comes to building smaller iot devices. Or pick up a used mini pc and start self hosting 😉

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        17 days ago

        I am really enjoying messing around with self-hosting. I used to resell VPS back in the day, so it is fun to bring that knowledge to my home lab. I have been messing with docker to help streamline deployment.

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    18 days ago

    My ~£700 4070ti s purchase from a couple years ago doesn’t feel so insane anymore. Glad I didn’t wait. Especially when the 32gb of ram was about 100.

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    18 days ago

    Everything’s just a speculation object now.

    I want to get off Mr bones wild ride!

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    18 days ago

    Even on release the 5090 cost more than my whole PC… and my PC literally had the highest end version of every other consumer grade component and a 9070XT (so highest end non-nvidia GPU). Point is it was always overpriced, a single component should not cost more than an entire rig.

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    19 days ago

    Yes, anyone trying to run local LLM niw, let alone game, is way behind.

    I’m really concerned that the future is subscriptions because high end hardware is rare for plebs