Paz Fedak
41 posts
FOUR REFURBISHED VIDEO CARDS RUN ABOUT $9,400 A MONTH AND NONE OF THEM WERE MADE FOR THIS JOB. This is an EVGA GTX 1080. In 2017, a 29-year-old guy from Chengdu bought them to mine a coin. Then the installation brought about seven dollars a day. The screen counted every fortune it found. Pause at 0:09. The clock in the corner still shows 2017. This was the last good day that the coin gave him. In 2021, his country for a night banned all this. The wallet stopped. Installation - no. He didn't sell the cards. He gave them a second job. Now ComfyUI is running on the same four 1080s. The SDXL pipeline directs each task to a free map. They render photos of products - shoes, lamps, bottles - for online stores that have never hired a photographer. A model that didn't exist when the cards were made now uses them to represent things that were never in the room. 7 dollars a day, then 9400 dollars a month. The same four cards. The same outlet in the wall. Under load, the installation pulls less than a hair dryer - exactly the same as the day when I found my last coin. His father still calls it a coin machine. She hasn't touched a coin for five years. Maps now heat up more than ever during mining. It turns out that drawing is more difficult than counting. He left the old mining console open on the second screen. She reminds him what the cards wanted before. He bought four cards to chase the money that came and went. They still work. They simply stopped looking for money and started creating it.
