(Justin)

Tech nerd from Sweden

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  • I’m looking at the future and what might be good replacement that offers a blend of power-efficiency, flexibility, and storage cost.

    Any modern CPU will improve energy efficiency. AMD AM4 platform and Intel N100 are very cheap. AMD SP3 platform is also very cheap and has a ton of PCIe lanes and memory expandability for gpus, NVMe, and running lots of VMs.

    For storage cost, used hdds are currently $8/TB, generic NVMe is currently $45, and used enterprise SSDs are $50/TB, decide which you want to invest in depending on your needs. Used enterprise drives will be the fastest and most durable for databases and RAID.

    https://diskprices.com/

    https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=pm983+m.2

    SSD prices are expected to decrease faster than HDD prices, and will probably overtake HDDs for value in ~5 years.

    About dGPUs, Intel A310 is the best transcoding Gpu out there. Used Nvidia datacenter gpus probably have the best vram/$ and pytorch compatibility for AI




  • None of that is relevant to the idea of affordable housing for college students because 18 year olds going to college haven’t had the chance to start working yet.

    I don’t think I was particularly lazy as a student just because I got free college and $1k a month student loans from the Swedish welfare state, and a free apartment from my parents, all without working a single hour for pay.

    I remember some of my strongest drivers in college were my social life, the opportunity to enter an exchange program, passing 75% of my classes to keep my student loans, and my personal interest in the things I studied. So some monetary/quasi-monetary, but also many social. And none of them based on wage labor.

    Also, while social democracy like what I’ve described doesn’t reject your ideology, there are also people who work for other reasons besides money, and there are more forms of unpaid work than there are for paid work.