• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought for sure this was fake but it sadly isn’t. Really should take up smoking and drinking again to get off this ride sooner.

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    1 year ago

    To be fair some of these rentals are cheap enough to be worth it.

    The last time I checked, it would cost me about 15 dollars to rent a vr headset for a month!

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    1 year ago

    I doubt that leasing physical possession of a GPU makes much sense unless there’s a market for secondhand GPUs.

    It can make sense to do something like vast.ai, where one buys access to a remote GPU, if one has “bursty” needs. Like, maybe someone needs access to a high-end GPU for AI stuff, but only on a sporadic basis.

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    1 year ago

    I would love to lease if it brought more value but as currently structured it’s trash. EVGA step up was good for this buyer.

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    1 year ago

    I always wonder how these places don’t get ripped off left and right by people just making the first payment and bailing with the hardware but i suppose they probably just make up for it from the handful of suckers that actually keep paying for stuff.

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      I suppose if you could put custom firmware on the card, you could have host-side software that talks to something remote and to the card and has to activate the GPU each session.

      I think that the issue here is less the technical barriers and more “the financial side doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense”.

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m actually the target audience for this - or I would be if I had the money for it. I get tired of having to buy and configure new hardware every couple of years just to keep up with new software.

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      Good news, Moore’s law and dennard scaling is pretty much over. We could (in a better system) buy for the next decade. Unfortunately this is not profitable so it won’t happen