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noelwelsh ◴[] No.45302427[source]
I'd love to understand the economics here. $3000 purely for fun seems like a lot. $3000 for promotion of a channel? consulting? seems reasonable.
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philipwhiuk ◴[] No.45302767[source]
Jeff has a million YouTube subscribers, gets $2000 a month from Patreon and has 200 GitHub sponsors.

The economics of spending $3,000 on a video probably work out fine.

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1. geerlingguy ◴[] No.45302921[source]
It's definitely a stretch for my per-video budget, but I did want to have a 'maxed out' Pi cluster for future testing as well.

A lot of people (here, Reddit, elsewhere) speculate about how good/bad a certain platform or idea is. Since I have the means to actually test how good or bad something is, I try to justify the hardware costs for it.

Similar to testing various graphics cards on Pis, I've probably spent a good $10,000 on those projects over the past few years, but now I have a version of every major GPU from the past 3 generations to test on, not only on Pi, but other Arm platforms like Ampere and Snapdragon.

Which is fun, but also educational; I've learned a lot about inference, GPU memory access, cache coherency, the PCIe bus...

So a lot of intangibles, many of which never make it directly into a blog post or video. (Similar story with my time experiments).