Yea I’m sure that 9 year old and his brother who likes to ‘smash old stuff for fun then put it in a bag’ goes around taking things to places like an electronics disposal service all the time!
Personally, as a middle aged man, I have never taken anything to a electronics recycler, I once had a collection of old phones but they were stolen out of storage. I’m curious to hear about others experiences disposing of old electronics…
You’re not supposed to throw away that kind of electronic. Pretty much everything electronic (and a lit of other things like plastics and metals) you buy will have little icons of how it can be disposed of. These icons are little depections of what is covered in an items MDS (material data safety sheet)
Over time it may be possible that things could become harmful if you smashed something electronic with pcb’s and soder into tiny particles then huffed it like paint; yea you could scar your lungs if you did that every day for a couple years. So he’s not totally wrong.
The battery is the most dangerous and can catch fire/ explode. You may not die but you can burn yourself pretty bad and the fire will need to be estinguished properly or you can make it grow bigger.
I tried it. Something like 1.2 tokens inference on lamma 70b with a mix of cards (but 4 1080s). Would process would crash occasionally. Ideally every card would have the same vram.
Going to try it with 1660 TI’s. I think it may be the ‘sweet spot’ in power to price to performance.