Banned from Reddit for advocating violence?

To be clear, you think Russia would ally with the US, and side against China in some kind of conflict?

Well yes that’s the nature of the agreement, it’s our right, but it doesn’t mean we should, especially against the will of the rest of the G7.

What’s even the ostensible excuse?

The 3060 TI is 8GB IIRC, the base 3060 is 12 but somewhat slower, probably not a worthy upgrade over a 1080 TI.

You can always buy used. Even a 2080 TI would be a big step since you can use dlss with it, and prices for them are better now.

I consider myself an “AI evangelist,” but I hate Altman with a burning passion, probably more than you do, and hate data centers burning the planet.

I think running models locally, as hackable tools you understand, trained on very modest hardware (as Chinese companies are doing by necessity with the import restrictions), is a distinct thing. Doubly so if bitnet takes off and running stuff on-device becomes super cheap.

I feel like there’s even a smaller group of programmers that used blockchain for utilitarian purposes, and not pyramid schemes, but TBH it seems vanishingly small.

What I’m saying is… the problem is not AI, it’s billionaires.

It’s always billionaires.

The golden ticket for me is buying previous gen. Used.

I picked up a 7950 during the crypto crash. A 980 TI when everyone was doing exactly this and jumping on new stuff. My used 3090 is like $200 more than when I bought it, last I checked.

And the risk of it being faulty? Heck, I could’ve bought two of them and still come out ahead of these stupid new card prices.

This gen is still pretty screwed, though. 7900 prices may drop some with this, but still…

You should sell the 3090s now. Prices for them are freaking nuts, probably as high as they’ll ever be.