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.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Don't do that to yourself. Not only are you worth more than that, but doing so would only bond you to two more hypercapitalist shitboots than you already are.
Stay strong. Spite is a wonderful motivator, if nothing else.
Something something don't die for your depression, make them redacted by law
Most people have a pc because they don't want subscription for anything...
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!
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.
What fresh hell is this?
LaaS: Life as a Service
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.
If you lease something, you make periodic payments; i.e. it isn't free.
So we've come full circle and reinvented eMachines?
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.
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
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.
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".