You can get a Coral TPU for 40 bucks or so.
You can get an AMD APU with a NN-inference-optimized tile for under 200.
Training can be done with any relatively modern GPU, with varying efficiency and capacity depending on how much you want to spend.
What price point are you trying to hit?
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure I speak for the majority of normal people, but we don’t have servers.
peteyestee@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Ikr…Dude thinks we’re restaurants or something.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Yeah, when you’re a technology enthusiast, it’s easy to forget that your average user doesn’t have a home server - perhaps they just have a NAS or two.
(Kidding aside, I wish more people had NAS boxes. It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives. In a good day. I do have a USB floppy drive and a DVD drive just in case.)
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hello fellow home labber! I have a home built xpenology box, proxmox server with a dozen vm’s, a hackentosh, and a workstation with 44 cores running linux. Oh, and a usb floppy drive. We are out here.
I also like long walks in Oblivion.
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Man oblivion walks are the best until a crazy woman comes at you trying to steal your soul with a fancy sword
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
lol yeah, the lemmy userbase is NOT an accurate sample of the technical aptitude of the general population 😂
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn’t have very good prospects.
notabot@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You… you don’t? Surely there’s some mistake, have you checked down the back of your cupboard? Sometimes they fall down there. Where else do you keep your internet?
Appologies, I’m tired and that made more sense in my head.
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Well obviously the internet is kept in a box, and it’s wireless.
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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
“Normal person” is a modifier of server. It does not state any expectation of every normal person having a server. Instead, it sets expectation that they are talking about servers owned by normal people. I have a server. I am norm… crap.