• Gravitywell@sh.itjust.works
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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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      1 year ago

      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”.