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you can however, have fun with it. oil workers buy 100k trucks they do not-much with. why not a 100k in computer?
by 8note 3mo ago
you can however, have fun with it.
oil workers buy 100k trucks they do not-much with. why not a 100k in computer?
- Ken_At_EM 3mo agoI can't help but ask where this comment came from, you must have some exposure..
- CamperBob2 3mo agoIt is so easy to spend $100K on a pickup truck these days, it's not even funny.
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo agoFactory F350 Platinum is at least 90k sticker.
- hedora 3mo agoYet Ford claims it is impossible to sell any pickups for > $60K, so they killed the lightning. I assume (since they claim they are selling the batteries to AI data centers), they’ll produce some sort of EV >= F150 once the bubble pops, and we get a new president.
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo agoAutomotive EE here… every other decision about vehicles is about emissions. CAFE, the reason that a company releases X model is that they can then sell more Y models that get worse mileage. EV is a separate thing. Vastly overmarketed for the technology as it exists today.
- tiahura 3mo agoA Honda minivan is > 50k.
- dakolli 3mo agoSure, If you want to light money on fire for entertainment, more power to you. There's probably worse ways to light 100k on fire. If I have an extra 100k laying around it's going to my family though.
- afavour 3mo agoBecause car loans can’t be used to buy computers
- ElProlactin 3mo agoAnd there's your idea. If you could find a way to get people to add another $500/month over 80+ months to an auto loan, dealers would eat that up like filet mignon.
- frangonf 3mo agoSurprising that the banking industry has not come up yet with the AI native consumer product loan for GPUs.
- OliverGuy 3mo agoProbably a bit niche at the moment really. The only people interested in that are us nerds, and the product segment is very adhoc - especially for the local crowd where an epyc, with a bunch of pcie riders and some 3090s on a steel frame is considered optimal
- bandrami 3mo agoPaging Mr. Son. Mr. Son, please pick up line 3.
- jliptzin 3mo agoYea as far has hobbies go, I feel like this is on the low end. I know people who collect watches and corvettes, that's way more expensive and functionally you can't really do anything special with them.
- theteapot 3mo agoThe difference is watches and corvettes typically appreciate in value, where as computer hardware typically drops like a rock.
- randomNumber7 3mo agoAlso LLMs are mainly used for work and if you can spend 6 digits on watches your likely financially independent.
- 15155 3mo ago> watches Some, and the market fluctuates a ton. > corvettes Only the oldest, most unique model years: nobody is buying (C4-C5-realistically C6) mid-90s or early 2000s Corvettes for more than what they paid for them, and they never will.
- parineum 3mo ago> The difference is watches and corvettes typically appreciate in value Both of those things' value drops like a rock as soon as you buy them and, at least for cars, they don't all appreciate. Most don't. Even so, they appreciate at an incredible slow rate. I can't speak for watches but I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same situation. At least the gpus can create value after you buy them before they are worthless.
- cdelsolar 3mo agohmm ok let's build a state of the art from 2021 homelab using 2x Epyc Milan chips + DDR4 RAM and lmk how much it costs...
- Der_Einzige 3mo agoCorvettes don't appreciate in value, and high end data center hardware isn't dropping in value anymore. A100s are more than 2 dollars an hour, more than they cost in 2023.