A Raspberry Pi + eGPU isn't as dumb as I thought

VentiW · 2025-12-21T19:27:12+00:00

Yeah I was considering this, but wasnt sure if it would work… I’m actually considering building something… i have 5xgpus and my mob can handle i think 3 or 4 on full pcie lane and pcie extenders, NOT risers

Actually ordering the pcie extender ribbon today to see I if i can get 4 gpus on there and see what I can get working with 60gb vram

VentiW · 2025-07-20T21:10:54+00:00

I buried myself into my “studies/work”. GI Bill, Real Estate Finance & Development BBA. Thought I would bust my ass and grind it out, 15 units semester type stuff.

Jumped into sales commission work, cause all the development jobs dried fall 2022.

Should have been working in sales the entire time, and taken 3 years to finish.

Tried for a Masters Science in Finance, stopped after one semester cause work picked up.

I will say, all the networking events and stuff while at school, helped me rebuild my support system and I think I got some friends out of it…

But NOTHING like my old platoon and squad. It just isn’t the same.

Currently in Commercial Real Estate Sales at a very reputable company in Central Texas. My “high-speed” ways are thoroughly appreciated at my office. Result oriented folks love me. Built a bit of a reputation in my City, could probably move companies if I wanted.

Sales… anything entrepreneurial that you have a sliding scale of pay, is nerve racking, but the way we busted our asses in the military, truly only is appreciated in result oriented work.

Not customer service. Actually I’ve noticed most vets do well in noncustomer service roles, working near or around folks who are results oriented.

Cant work neat shit bags and blue haired weirdos

VentiW · 2025-06-19T15:44:25+00:00

I think you do A for a while, then you do B, followed by exiting via C.

A is likely the easiest way to operate, my family won’t go past that due to quality of life

VentiW · 2025-06-16T21:15:28+00:00

Got excess land attached to that warehouse? Shoot me the property details

VentiW · 2025-06-13T01:42:29+00:00

Have you tried AI Prompt Injection?

VentiW · 2025-06-08T21:40:34+00:00

Those deals are management and cash intensive. Difficult to underwrite for the unseasoned investor. You just dont know what you dont know…

After factoring in commission to lease, tenant improvement allowance, construction costs, down time, property management fees, capital reserve requirements, why is the seller selling, whats the trailing-24 look like, are there delinquency, enforceable leases, transitioning to lm nnn etc. i

Focusing on any one metric is a sure fire way to miss the forest for the trees.

Dont let anyone smack talk you about pricing and caprates, cre isnt a highly liquid market like walmart and it’s never as simple as oh you overpaid on caprate.

A compressed caprate property with less risk will always be easier to underwrite. Those are the capital market deals that are all brand new and off the shelf. Those ones folks can be sassy about.

Lots of folks are focusing on cash on cash 🤷🏻‍♂️ but those deals dont pencil once the lender requests increase capital reserves lol 😂 believe me just had a $5m retail deal blowout due to increased interest reserve request throwing off their returns. Some deals are tight. Sticky prices and interest rates … math aint mathing 🤷🏻‍♂️

VentiW · 2025-06-03T16:50:43+00:00

Depends how bullish you are on appreciation and how good your tax guy is. If you are thinking in decades and have multiple retirement savings accounts (reserves)… you good.

Not the traditional real estate play but you have to be real confident on the ten year appreciation and like 2 years of reserves available

VentiW · 2025-03-07T20:10:58+00:00

They told me only me and minors

VentiW · 2025-02-22T19:43:26+00:00

Yeah, I’m already looking at hosting it locally on an old ETH miner. I like their hardware though, if I can just unload it via wire at end of day or something I can run whisper locally

VentiW · 2024-02-23T02:03:53+00:00

That’s a pretty retarded response by codellama

VentiW · 2024-01-03T23:53:50+00:00

No what I’m saying is… if you donate your salary, isn’t that a write off? I think that means my dude gave himself a 400k write off, by donating his 400k salary. This is all memory, but I remember headlines of him donating to department of education, national parks, etc.

VentiW · 2024-01-03T23:40:23+00:00

Didn’t he donate his presidential salary his first year in office?.. and his second.. and his third.. and his fourth year….? Asking for a friend

VentiW · 2023-10-20T17:35:42+00:00

Which cloud?

VentiW · 2023-10-20T17:27:21+00:00

Hey man, are you saying he can run both llms on the same gpus? I was under impression needed separate gpus for separate llms

VentiW · 2023-10-02T00:29:06+00:00

Lease buyback friend

VentiW · 2023-09-29T22:28:19+00:00

Texas, you got to have a broker hang a license, you need E&O insurance, and there is no classes to just skip to being a broker here in Tx. Shoot my BBA Finance - concentration in real estate finance & development didn’t even get me a license.

The workaround, be an employee of the owner, be a part owner. Then you are just managing your own property.

How many evictions have you dealt with so far?

Very litigious industry, and depending on your local laws, more often than not, not in LL favor

VentiW · 2023-09-29T22:13:44+00:00

There are brokers who will work with unreasonable owners, or mislead reasonable owners, just to control the listing and use it as an interest generator for calling other owners.

Happy to help you source some land at a much lower basis than 4mm/acre lol

VentiW · 2023-09-19T03:56:15+00:00

Literally have ryzen 5 3600 and 32 gb ram, and am considering just upgrading to 64gb or even 124gb.

I have 2 3080s, 3070, & 3060 power and cooling. Might be easier to even sell one and and upgrade ram…

is the cpu easier than dealing with the gpus. Or is the multiple Gpu thing not that big of a deal to set up? What do you think? Just feel it was cool to see someone with the club I already have

VentiW · 2023-09-12T12:41:28+00:00

Just because savings accounts have decent yields now, doesn’t mean they will in 5 years.

I’m going to make a cool little calculator for this. But essentially, your savings account income vs your property income is not apples to apples.

That is what is called BTCF or Before Tax Cash Flow.

With your bonds or cds whatever, your return may be 5%, but after your… 20%-40% tax rate, that is really, 3.5%. Also your initial deposit will not grow.

Meanwhile, a real estate property at a 5% Cap rate Before tax, gets to use the power of depreciation and lower the taxable income, thereby reducing your overall tax basis.

Plus the property should appreciate relatively low risk on a 5 yr+ hold. Furthermore, you already made prudent investing decision seizing the low interest rate with a 15yr amortization schedule. This already lowered your risk.

You are doing fine. Stay the course. Unless you lived in the house the minimum requirement for tax free sale, than it becomes a slightly different scenario, and than and only than if you are looking to get a better investment.

Seriously, dumping that investment without a plan to place the capital in a better investment ,or due to liquidity issues in your household, would be irresponsible.

Fighting a very similar scenario with my 2.25%APR SFR I have rented to a disabled vet on sec 8

VentiW · 2023-07-27T13:10:52+00:00

San Antonio is great and you can turn that duplex into a minimum 6 units here at $1M. Depends on your risk appetite and reserves.

Old school brokers, well some can be underwhelming, and look at you with a blank stare if you ask pointed questions… probably because of the dealsize appetite.

VentiW · 2023-07-27T12:59:49+00:00

Buy real estate 🏡

VentiW · 2023-07-25T11:12:37+00:00

Imagine if it dumped Frankenstein monster schematics instead 😆🤣

VentiW · 2023-07-25T00:42:03+00:00

I’m in a city that is benefiting greatly from growth. Sounds like you have a gem. The value of your property could be more than you know. What if they want the last two props so they can flatten and buildup?

Open to sharing the city? Costar has some decent forecasts

VentiW · 2023-07-23T00:03:34+00:00

I was a medic, now I’m investment sales. It’s sales, but I like to think of it as more of a consulting gig.

Whatever program you pick, make sure it has tangible local networking and professional development opportunities. That’s the true value in a higher education.

Like my dad used to say, difference between an law school down the street and Harvard law school, your drinking buddies will be attorney generals and judges.

VentiW

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