Alphane_Moon

You could even buy a good GPU and still have another $39 K leftover.

I guess we are sort of on the same page then. :)

That is so true, it doesn't even look nice.

Not to mention there is no cool technology that is unique to this SKU (redundant sub-systems, high quality materials etc.).

I have no issues with LW (and most other instance). I mod/curate multiple communities on LW.

I definitely do not intend to "run down" LW (if I am understanding the meaning of "run down" correctly).

The GPU shroud is made up of 5kg or 11 pounds of pure 24-karat gold, upping the weight of the GPU to 7.2kg or 15.9 pounds. To put things into perspective, most RTX 5090 GPUs weigh anywhere from 2.5 to 3.0 Kg, making Asus’s newest showcase GPU 3 times heavier.

Why would you ever want a ~7 kg GPU, this makes it objectively worse than a regular high-end 5090. They could have used minimal gold coating and diamonds to keep the bling factor while maintaining a more reasonable weight.

Also it doesn't seem there are any true product benefits over the ROG Astral RTX 5090. For such a price, I would expect them to source the best binned GPU chips on the planet and other unique features.

Definitely. I've been on the Threadiverse for a while now.

The problem is that ML is such a prominent instance and the lead devs are degenerate tankies.

And I don't use the word degenerate lightly or as a generic insult.

Claiming (without irony) that North Korea is good place to live and their political system has been discredited by a vast capitalist conspiracy led by the BIA is a sign of true degeneracy. It doesn't even matter if they are engaging in demagoguery or not.

I was indeed refering to the rolling release nature of Arch-style distros.

Having every update be a potential system breaker is not in any way user friendly, nor is it a user friendly experience to have to audit updates.

I get that (I am assuming you have excellent C64 emulators for x86 too), just for some reason the USB tape deck felt like a bridge too far for me.

buyers will also get a spiral-bound user guide, a 64GB USB Cassette Drive featuring 50+ full games, including licensed classics

Is this USB Cassette drive for retro vibes? Why not just have a USB flash drive? Am I missing something?

And it's liquid cooled too!

Interesting commentary about the cost recovery approach to operating this supercomputer.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B. Clients can directly play the media without any need for realtime transcoding. I could 4K transcoding being challenging for older Raspberry Pi SBCs.

I just hope they move to a 12 core CCD design.