Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by lxglv on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:59AM (#47789590)

weird to learn that they do not generate inference requests to their network themselves to motivate early adopters at least to host their inference software

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Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by lostmsu on Thursday April 16, 2026 @06:34AM (#47791122)

If they paid promised > $1k/m for FLUX 2B on a Mac they would go broke in less than a month. On a single 5090 that model would provide an inference througput so high they'd have to pay close to $50k/m for the results.

The numbers are absolute fraud. You shouldn't be installing their software cause fraud could be not just about numbers.

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Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by rjmunro on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:12AM (#47791404)

Can you rephrase that? I don't think I've read it correctly. It sounds like you are saying it would normally cost $50k on a 5090 and they can do equivalent work paying $1k. That's sounds like a $49k profit margin, but you say they will go broke.

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Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs by mhast on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:00AM (#47793104)

I'm assuming it's meant the other way around.

Given their estimates of a Mac being able to generate $1k (per month?) a 5090 with a lot more power would be able to generate $50k. For a $3k piece of hardware. Which is obviously not realistic. (As in, nobody is paying that much for the images, which seems to match well with no actual requests on the system.)

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