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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

(www.jeffgeerling.com)
468 points speckx | 2 comments | 19 Sep 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dbg31415 ◴[19 Sep 25 14:45 UTC] No.45302244[source]▶
Was it cost effective? Meh.

Was it a learning experience?

More importantly, did you have some fun? Just a little? (=

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phoronixrly ◴[19 Sep 25 14:50 UTC] No.45302299[source]▶
> Was it a learning experience?

Also no. The guy's a youtuber

On the other hand, will this make him 100+k views? Yes. It's bait - the perfect combo to attract both the AI crowd and the 'homelab' enthusiasts (of which the bulk are yet to find any use for their raspberry devices)...

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aprdm ◴[19 Sep 25 15:02 UTC] No.45302428[source]▶
He is not a YouTuber. And even if he was - what's the problem ?

Jeff has many useful OSS software used by many companies around the world daily - including mine. What have you created ?

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1. op00to ◴[19 Sep 25 15:19 UTC] No.45302618{3}[source]▶
"He is not a YouTuber"... what?

https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling

"978K subscribers 527 videos"

Jeff's had a pattern of embellishing controversies, misrepresenting what people say, and using his platform to create narratives that benefit his content's engagement. This is yet another example of farming outrage to get clicks. I don't understand why people drool over his content so much.

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2. aprdm ◴[19 Sep 25 15:56 UTC] No.45303092[source]▶
I guess I met Jeff's work on Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans which is roughly 10 years old.

I then used many of his ansible playbooks on my day to day job, which paid my bills and made my career progress.

I don't check youtube so I didn't know that he was an "youtuber", I do know his other side and how mucH I have leveraged his content/code in my career