That’s like daily driving a giant SUV because you drive eight hours to grandma’s house every Christmas
90% of F350 buyers had to move a sofa once in the last 5 years.
Ironically, most of that sort of thing is done better with a minivan.
Have you never had a minivan and a pickup? I moved from Chicago to NW Florida in a minivan. I didn’t think the tranny would make it, it was hangin’ low for all the weight. I used to put the top down and haul lumber in my Eclipse, but a pickup is way easier.
So, just out of interest.
How many times did you move from Chicago to NW Florida?
Once. Obviously. I also used that van as a contractor. A minivan is a PITA vs. a truck for most tasks.
Shit. Forgot. This is lemmy where truck drivers are despised, hateful MAGA fucks.
If you need a truck regularly no one is going to come after you. We only hate truck owners that do a few truck things a year.
BUT, if you are pro-MAGA you can suck on DEEZ.
This is lemmy where truck drivers are despised, hateful MAGA fucks.
It’s not in any way related to MAGA, it’s because so many truck owners don’t use them for anything you need a truck for 99% of the time. They’re driven by millions of people as a daily commuter vehicle, with the excuse of needing to move something occasionally, which could be handled by a rental. Then there’s the shitty fuel economy and increased pollution from it, and needlessly massive designs now that are a hazard to pedestrians and other vehicles.
There are real uses, and a ton of truck owners use them for what they’re designed for. Especially for small businesses. But you can’t deny there are a large number of pavement princesses and truck owners that are just overcompensating.
Yes, I do in fact have both a minivan and a pickup right now. Aside from not having four wheel drive or a tow hitch, the minivan is more capable, both in terms of weight and volume (the van can haul full sheets of plywood; the pickup truck can’t). And by the way, if I installed a hitch on it the minivan would be able to tow more than the truck, too.
The truck is better for hauling dirty stuff off-road, but that’s about it.
Granted, my truck isn’t exactly a 1-ton long-bed… but then again, neither is most people’s.
I worked Lowe’s outdoor lawn and garden. Many of those monster pavement princesses are hauling massive trailers. My MAGA neighbor is an asshole with a princess. But he has a yard full of trailers, car haulers and a boat you won’t see him hauling everyday.
So why doesn’t he have a second reasonable vehicle for when he doesn’t need the truck to haul the trailer?
Getting a second car as a daily driver is 100% going to be cheaper than paying for gas in a truck not being used to haul anything. Trailers aren’t cheap either unless they’re rust buckets. And if he’s got a pavement princess truck… I doubt his trailers are rusting apart.
Getting a giant pickup because you might buy a washer and dryer every few years
And literally every new washer dryer comes with free delivery and install.
Bit off topic, but I can’t believe people buy new appliances. For $200 each we got the nicest washer and fridge we’ve ever had off FB Marketplace. Our dishwasher was $50 and I found our glass-top oven for free on the road. Nothing wrong with any of those appliances.
That’s just gambling with extra steps. You won on your bets, but even refurbished appliances often have expensive issues that aren’t obvious until after they’ve been in use for a little while.
I can buy 5 fridges for $1,000 bucks at $200 for used. It’s a no-brainer for me. Plus, I’m not contributing to manufacturing CO2. Plus plus, I can fix basic shit, I’m not helpless with a toolbox. The person selling on FB is usually dead honest about issues. After all, you know their real name and where they live.
Go blow money if ya got it. The economy would collapse if 1-in-10 people spent like my wife and I.
I hear your and generally agree, but honestly the cost of a fridge conking out isn’t just the fridge, theres probably a bunch of food in there as well at risk, so maybe 2-3x repurchasing.
And then planning on buying a second SUV, with no second driver.
“Well, you know, the other one was getting to be about four or five years old. It was about that time.”
Most workers only spend ~1/3 of their time working. If you’re running GPU heavy automated workflows, you’re usually running batches before shifts start in the morning.
So 50% utilization seems about right, probably higher than I expect. The real question is what is their peak utilization rate, because being capped when you need it most is more important than running the things 24/7/365.
Even if you sell GPU compute, you’re still pricing it amortized based on average utilization, so this isn’t a deal breaker depending on the business model.
Meanwhile, open models have gotten quite good, and if you have an enterprise grade GPU you can run a lot of the good ones. I run Qwen 3.8 125b on my home server and it’s acceptable. The value of owning your own GPU is getting stronger in my opinion. I guess I’ll keep an eye out on used server parts or something.
As much as I think this is a bubble, fueled by effectively extortion from Nvidia and the memory makers, but initiated by Scam Altman, this isn’t the needle. The needle is the data centre funding.
It’s definitely a good business practice to need more startup investments just to keep the lights on. Totally normal. Literally speed running capitalism. How fast can you realize resources aren’t infinite but at a global scale.
It’s so over. They leverage debt to buy these things and NVIDIA is egging them on. The datacenter companies don’t have the market and even worse, they can’t even install the new hardware that they are buying and GPUs are just sitting idle. They buy this on debt well on advance because every CEO is fearing that they will miss out in the future if they don’t buy today. That money needs they need to paid back, but where is the money going to come from if they are not using the product? Next is Nvidia going to come in the next few years with a new product and say that all the continuously depreciating silicon that they have in their datacenters running half capacity and in warehouses sitting idle is now shit and here is the latest model, now pay up piggy. What then?
