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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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