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Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by Grumpy404@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Over the past few years ive gotten desktops from various smaller thrift stores but not i feel like i have too many and im not sure what to so with them? Do i save them and turn them into a bugger project? Do i make a nas out of one of them? Im stumped theres so many things to do with a pc that i dont know where to start, or if this is even the right place to post in?

I pretty much saved theses from e-waste and scalpers but most of the machines are devices nobody wants or has a issue.

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[–] Sims@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I a year you might have an agent to manage them all. They could be edge devices, or different nodes in your/your ai's work flow. Don't get rid of them unless you hate AI, or for good causes.

[–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Budget desktops are and will remain effectively useless for AI not enough RAM, not enough GPU oomph. And cost more to run than they provide unless they are serving a static web page for a small business or something. Shill your bubble somewhere it could actually be utilized.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, depending on the budget desktop, it might be much better than a Raspberry Pi 5, which I hear is already occasionally used for such things.

[–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can do object detection, not generative stuff, at least not with anything resembling useful results

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

From what I can tell, people have supposedly run LLMs on it with not great, but not necessarily horrible results; Certainly has to be better than those clickbait posts about people running llama on Windows 98.

A lot of budget desktops from the past decade can at least match, if not significantly outclass a Raspberry Pi 5. Heck, that barely beats my i5 from 2009, and the performance of CPUs has increased significantly since then.

Then again, I'm not particular interested in gen ML, self-hosted or not, so I don't really care.