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.
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 😉
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.
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.
I already miss the good old days. Back when RAM was affordable.
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
Everything’s just a speculation object now.
I want to get off Mr bones wild ride!
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.
Just saw one on Amazon for 11,500 USD
At least game studios will optimize for lower-end hardware
If you see someone hacking AI vendors or their suppliers: No you don’t.