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[โ€“] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's pretty much the point I arrived at a couple years ago when prices never really did come down after the crypto bullshit tailed off.

The latest hardware I bought was a 16 GB kit of DDR3 for my spare parts server.

[โ€“] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I bought a 1080 for every computer in the house when all that really went stupid. They paid for themselves in 3 months of mining at night. I eventually stopped because I wanted the cards to last. They all still run.

I wish I could point and click new GPUs at AI and get them for free.