There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

- https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 6 months ago

I'm trying to install my favorite text editor Leafpad (http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/). I love it because it is a no-nonsense fast and simple text editor. Source: over 1 year ago

My own personal choice is Leafpad (http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/), but if someone were to fork Code and strip it down to the bare minimum that'd be ideal. The old Scratch icon could even be used. Source: almost 3 years ago