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   Eli Roberson (he/him) (thatdnaguy@genomic.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2026 09:22:54 JST Eli Roberson (he/him)

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   • Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD

   @ChristosArgyrop oof. If I'm still employed I'll grab em with both hands. Hardware is untenable now.

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     Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD (christosargyrop@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2026 09:22:55 JST Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD

     Which (and how many) GPUs, hard disks and RAM are you going to score at eBay when the bubble pops?

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     Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD (christosargyrop@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2026 12:36:03 JST Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage @thatdnaguy A100s and H100s are available on PCIe for workstation use with liquid blocks (again similar to the V100s or one would have to put up with the noise). The hardcore homelab crowd have rack servers at home as well and may even be able to host SXM baseboards (could be wrong though). The Blackwells are going to be bricks unfortunately

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     Kevin Karhan (kkarhan@jorts.horse)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2026 17:41:02 JST Kevin Karhan

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     • Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD

     @ChristosArgyrop @Infoseepage @thatdnaguy You can get #SXM -> #PCIe x16 adaptor boards on eNay & ShitExpress, you know…

     • Similarly, there are (3D-printable) air ducts to shove 40/80/120mm fans onto those #Tesla & #Grid cards.
       • I'm certain that if there's enough of those cards on the market that we'll see even 3rd party #LiquidCooling blocks and mounting Adaptors.

     I mean, I've seen and done weirder shit, like "fully-passive cooled" Gaming Systems, and those were way harder in the past…

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     Kevin Karhan (kkarhan@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 02:10:04 JST Kevin Karhan

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     • Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD

     @Infoseepage @ChristosArgyrop @thatdnaguy I hopenot, espechally since small to medium companies in "P.R." #China (and OFC elsewhere1) have become increasingly capable of #upcycling and modifying stuff...

     Like making 48GB RTX4090 cards casually...

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     Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD (christosargyrop@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 07:36:09 JST Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD

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     • Kevin Karhan

     @Infoseepage @kkarhan @thatdnaguy I have about 4000W of compute at home (the worst hog is a k40 tesla that I got for 40 bucks to learn to program them). My electricity bill is not compatible with 4000W because most stuff remain off or draw so little power at idle not to bother. Consumers will not use them the way they are used in data centers especially since the bill is footed by them not VCs.