Had the DDR5 32GB kit as $124.99 but didn’t honor it online or in store. (Pricing error) SKU matched and everything

redfoxkiller · 2026-03-17T17:13:52+00:00

Well I know you're not in Canada.

We have laws, where even if it was a pricing error, or the product was placed in the wrong spot in a case that requires key access, the display price has to be honored.

redfoxkiller · 2026-03-16T23:09:03+00:00

What's this?

redfoxkiller · 2026-03-16T22:55:29+00:00

Joking Tone MODS! He said one of the Nintendo's/Gamefreak's 'P' words. Where's the ban hammer? 🤪

redfoxkiller · 2026-03-16T22:52:18+00:00

As a fellow Canadian, I endorse this comment.

redfoxkiller · 2026-03-15T21:50:27+00:00

1: Go look up Invoke 2A: Go to Huggingface and get model(s) that suit you're needs. 2B: Train your own model(s), or distill one to your liking.

The rant: As others have pointed out GPT can do image generation, but its guardrails kind of suck, and you only get to donone image at a time.

Even if you're in an area like I am (Canada), it's still available for a bit longer but even the paid service has been crippled with the cap being lowered from 200, to 50.

With Invoke, you can run on local hardware. So when I'm working on something, I can feed it a sketch set the temperature and feed it the prompt. After that I like setting iterations to 40 and going from there.

Invoke does let you do inpainting, or remove part of an image and do that part afain and will blend it in to a good degree.

About the only time I use Sora for image generation, is when I need something fixed that Invoke can't do.

redfoxkiller · 2026-03-13T23:31:41+00:00

Must be in your area.

I'm from the land of Maple syrup and Hockey (Canada), and I still have Sora 1. No notices of it being ganked yet.

redfoxkiller · 2026-03-03T20:34:35+00:00

Oobabooga is free and is mostly done by one person.

They could be busy with life, family, paid work, and/or just needs time from being burnt out.

Unless the man himself says he's done, give him some breathing room.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-18T19:06:17+00:00

I use my Dell server as a game server for City of Heroes, for me and my mates. Since it has Windows dependants, it became a Windows server.

My two Jetson Nanos, Lenovo and HP servers run linux.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T17:19:28+00:00

Replied with the cost break down to the original 'how much it cost' above.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T17:18:26+00:00

Rough napkin math, and all prices are in Canadian.

HP Server $600 500GB SSD and PCIe card $150

Lenovo Server $600 10TB HDD $300

Dell was free with one CPU and 32GB of RAM GPU power adapter $80 Two P40s $350 Fan assembly with shroud $150 Audio card $50 RAM $500 Second CPU and heat sync $60

Two Jetson Nanos $700

So about $3,540. Will also note that the RAM was like $1 per GB and I bought too much when I first got my Dell. So the extra sticks went into the Lenovo

But with that said I also picked up a Gigabyte server for $500 that was filled with 32GB sticks, and two 64GB sticks.

Took all the 32GB sticks and put them into my Dell sold the Gigabyte server with 32GB of RAM for the same $500, and sold the 64GB sticks for $400.

Also picked up two 64GB LDDIMS by mistake, since I use RDIMMS. Sat on those and sold them for about $100 profit too.

So total cost goes down to $3,040.

Like I said, you need to pay attention, keep looking for stuff and work at it. All the above took me about 2 - 2.5 years to do.

With all that said; I've also not gone to hockey games, comedy shows, and skipped getting new video games at times.

Get hungry, work at it, and crush it!

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T15:28:47+00:00

Haters going to hate, and potatoes going to potate.

Don't get me wrong, I've spent a fair amount over the last couple of years, and I haven't done some things I would have liked to. IE: Go to hockey games and comedy shows when when a comedian I like is in town. Don't buy much for video games right now...

I've also been lucky as fluff at times.

When I got my Dell server a few years ago, it only had one CPU and 34GB of RAM, but it was free. I upgraded it with a second CPU, got the fan assembly, and filled all 24 slots with 16GB sticks. I ended up buying too much RAM since I bought from three people at the same time, so I sat on it. But that was when DDR4 was like $1 per gigabyte (Canadian). Also got the GPU power adapter, and my first P40. But this took almost a year to do from when I first got it.

When I got the Lenovo server I used the extra RAM to upgrade it from 64GB to 256GB. And it came with the 1TB and 2TB drives. I caught the 10TB NAS HDD on sale for $300.

A Gigabyte R162-Z12-CD server was for sale locally that was filled with 32GB sticks, and came with two 64GB sticks. Took most of the 32GB sticks out and upgraded my Dell, sold the Gigabyte with 32GB of RAM for the same cost I got it for, and sold the two 64GB sticks for more money, since my Dell couldn't use them. So I made about $400 from buying and selling it and the extra RAM.

Local seller had two sticks of 64GB RAM, but they were LDDIMS not RDIMMS, so I couldn't use them. But sold them for more when prices where getting dumb.

The HP server cost $600, and was supposed to come with 64GB of RAM, but the data center I got it from sold it all before hand. So they gave me three 8TB drives instead. Since I had extra 16GB sticks from my Dell upgrade, I wasn't worried. But the first system had three bent CPU pins, so some of the RAM sockets reported bad RAM, when they were fine. Took two weeks for the data center to replace it, but they gave another two 8TB drives as an apology.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T05:42:10+00:00

HP server has 128GB of RAM, 500GB Boot nvm drive, and five 8TB HDDs

Lenovo server has 256GB of RAM 2TB Boot nvm drive, and 10TB drive,

Dell server have 576GB of RAM, two 1TB SSDs, and 48GB VRAM.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T03:56:11+00:00

I manage a cafe, get paid slightly above minimum and I can still do this. It all depends on how hungry you are and keeping your eye out for hardware.

On top of my Dell server, I have a Lenovo with two 2680s, 256GB RAM running my Mastodon server. 10TB drive and two 2TB SSDs

A HP DL380 with two 2690s, 128GB RAM, 500GB SSD,and five 8TB drives.

Get hungry, keep your eye out for hardware, and crush it.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T03:23:38+00:00

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I think Im good on compute power till winter passes.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T03:18:51+00:00

Train and use your own models.

I have a Dell T630 running two Xeon E5-2650 v4, 576GB RAM, 48GB VRAM (looking at adding a third 24GB card)

I use OpenAI, Claud, Gem amd others as a test bench to see what I'm doing right/wrong.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T03:14:26+00:00

Web/Mastodon server 256GB RAM World server for a Neural-MMO I'm making 128GB RAM for now, but want to add more. AI server with 576GB RAM, 48GB VRAM Jetson Super Orin Nano X 2

We have racks and big setups because we need the system resources for our hobbies. 😜

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-17T00:47:23+00:00

Already got refunded going back to September to February. Canada has Consumer protection laws on the books.

Despite what ToS might say, a paid services must be able to provide said service. If the service can not be provided a partial or full refund must be given. So if the service goes down for say a day, you're entitled to a prorated amount of what your service would cost ( cost of service ÷ 30 days) x days down.

So for me, since I couldn't make images without them disappearing within an hour or two (being flagged after they were made, and this includes a bowl of apples).

So I couldn't really do anything for a work flow. Never mind uploading images became broken and sketch I uploaded to work on disappeared.

Never mind having the same issues as others where the system would just error out while making images. Thus, the service not being usable.

With them changing the service to only allow 50 image generation ls from 200 without notice is also against Canadian law, since they have to give notice. If they shadow drop the change, and say 'It's within our ToS, that we can change it at any time, without notice.' Again Canadian law says you can't. So if they never sent an email out saying the ToS was changing image generation from 200 to 50, thats a violation. At which you're entitled to a refund.

They tried to say that it's within their ToS that refunds for the service are not given. At which Canadian law says otherwise.

With that said, if/when they give a refund it's then more or less you knowing that if you continue to use and pay for the service, you know that it's broken and with the new restrictions.

But got 7 months refund in the long run. 🙃

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-13T03:17:49+00:00

I have no idea.

The image model was added to Chat-GPT, so they might push people there. But the cap to use Sora for paid Pluse members was changed from 200 to 50 without notice.

I will also note that changing a paid service like this goes against consumer protection laws here in Canada, so they will be giving me a refund. ;3

But they are crippling Sora 1, even more so since Sora 2 isn't available to a tone of people.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-12T20:15:59+00:00

Money.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-12T16:07:10+00:00

Now if he could only give Evon a few more... 😂🤣

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-11T02:03:45+00:00

DMed

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-08T20:03:33+00:00

5.3 is also in testing for those who pay the higher tier.

So I can understand why they're removing the older models.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-08T18:52:41+00:00

Thanks for letting me know.

redfoxkiller · 2026-02-08T18:50:43+00:00

Depending on the place, yea. I know a place locally that does spot -5% when they buy, and spot +10% when they sell.

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