midas vision @callsofmidas

the steam machine is $1,049 same job, built yourself, for half the price SteamOS Mini Build — Ryzen 7 8700G Pricing (parts only, checked this week): - ~$520 (16GB RAM / 512GB) - ~$590 (32GB RAM / 1TB) Chip: AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (AM5, 65W, cooler included) CPU: 8 cores / 16 threads, Zen 4, up to 5.1GHz GPU: Radeon 780M, 12 CU RDNA 3 — no graphics card needed RAM: 16–32GB DDR5 Storage: 512GB–1TB NVMe OS: SteamOS (free) Status: buildable today, every part in stock

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John Doe @DoeOnChain

11 hours ago

Everyone wanted the Steam Machine. Then they saw the price. A console that performs like a $499 ps5, priced at over $1,049. Press play and watch even the biggest fans hit the same wall, the price. Here is what almost nobody mentions. It is still just a PC. Which means every

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@DoeOnChain nice

everyone is roasting valve for charging $1,049 for the steam machine, almost nobody noticed you can build the same thing for a quarter of the price this clip is valve quietly releasing steamos for any desktop, so the box stopped being the only way in the box performs about like a $499 ps5, and it asks $1,049 the same machine from parts lands near $250 on the low end, and a $700 build beats it outright the real story is not the price, it is that valve just turned its console into a blueprint anyone can copy right now the free path is amd-first, so nvidia owners wait, but the door is open valve sold you a console, the timeline is about to sell you the build i checked every retail and ebay price through claude this week, the numbers are real the box is the thing you buy, the blueprint is the thing you can sell

John Doe @DoeOnChain

20 hours ago

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GTA 6 will officially cost $80 Ultimate Edition: $100 #GTA6 #VICECITY

midas vision @callsofmidas

4 days ago

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@DoeOnChain thanks for this! bookmarked it

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rockstar just dropped 51 fresh GTA 6 screenshots at some point you stop asking if it is real and start asking how dropped the full set below #GTA6 #VICECITY

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midas vision @callsofmidas

4 days ago

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in 2013 people swore GTA 5 looked too real to ever be topped a kid screenshotted that exact quote back then he is 19 now, watching GTA 6 make it look like a flip phone #GTA6 #VICECITY

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4 days ago

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not just a bigger map, a bigger economy GTA 5 built one of the richest online worlds ever on the small version GTA 6 hands that same machine far more ground to run on bigger world, bigger economy, and Rockstar is keeping the keys this time

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4 days ago

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this is GTA 5 vs GTA 6 side by side the gap is bigger than people are ready for #GTA6 #VICECITY

midas vision @callsofmidas

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@DoeOnChain thanks for sharing!

while everyone else is hunting easter eggs in GTA 6 a few people are hunting where the money goes the people who got rich on GTA 5 were never grinding missions they were selling to the grinders

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@DoeOnChain Great share my man! Bookmarked it

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@KevinSzabo14 too big, too small, never right

everyone keeps arguing whether gta 6's map is smaller than miami they are all measuring the wrong thing the hard part was never drawing a map this big it is making all of it alive at once

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a week ago

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the people who made real money on GTA 5 were never the ones grinding missions they were the ones building while everyone else was playing GTA 6 reopens that exact window, only this time Rockstar runs the marketplace almost nobody is setting up for it yet

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THIS DEVELOPER BUILT A PRIVATE AI DATACENTER ON A ROLLING CART AND NOW RUNS 6 AGENTS 24/7 FOR LESS THAN $15 A MONTH used server gear off auction, bolted to a cart, rolled into the corner of a room next to the desk 128GB of pooled memory, a stack of boxes wired together, humming under a cracked-open window for the heat six agents that never sleep - inbox triage, research watcher, doc processor, code reviewer, scraper, overnight task runner on cloud APIs that stack runs $800 to $1,200 a month, on his cart it runs on the power it pulls, under $15 a year ago this was a building, racks, and a team of engineers now it is a cart in a bedroom, and the only thing that changed is who is allowed to own one the model left the datacenter full breakdown below

John Doe @DoeOnChain

6 days ago

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A DEVELOPER JUST RAN AN 800GB AI MODEL ON A DESK, ONE TOO BIG TO FIT ON ANY SINGLE COMPUTER ON EARTH he wired eight NVIDIA Sparks into one machine, 128GB each, pooled into a full terabyte of memory 23:00 he loads Qwen 3.5, a 397 billion parameter model, 800GB on disk, it will not fit on a single Mac Studio, it runs here at 24 tokens per second the honest part most posts skip, it is a mixture-of-experts model, only 17 billion parameters fire at once, that is why a desk can keep up he started at 3 tokens per second on one box, every box he added roughly doubled it, eight together run a model that physically cannot load anywhere smaller most people rent cloud compute for models this size at $2,000 a month, he built the cluster once and pays for electricity a year ago a model this big meant a datacenter, now it means eight boxes, a switch, and an open window for the heat which is the whole point of the breakdown i did on every local box and the tier you actually need, linked below

John Doe @DoeOnChain

6 days ago

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the cloud said a trillion parameter model needed a datacenter, a developer just ran one on the boxes sitting on his desk 02:00 he loads Kimi K2.5, a trillion parameter model, across the desk and gets 23 tokens per second the model is 658GB, it physically cannot fit on one machine, so the Macs are wired together over thunderbolt and share memory directly the whole cluster pulls 283 watts at full blast, less than a hairdryer, for a model this size and here is the part the headline hides, you do not need the $50k setup, he says two of these machines already hit 23 tokens per second most people still rent cloud compute for models this size at $2,000 a month, he runs it off the wall for the price of electricity a year ago this meant a datacenter and a monthly bill, now it is a few boxes on a desk and a power outlet which is the whole point of the breakdown i did on every local box and the tier you actually need, linked below

John Doe @DoeOnChain

6 days ago

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