Thanks for jogging my memory!
It was indeed Argon, not Halon, and the pressure issues that broke HDDs.
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It was indeed Argon, not Halon, and the pressure issues that broke HDDs.
Anyways, no fire damage was detected but oh boy... he had to run around various tech stores left and right to buy about 50-100 enterprise grade spinning disks before returning to the site. The fire suppression system somehow broke most of the hard drives in the server room.
This was more than a decade ago, however. Most of the disks are replaced with SSDs and so far they seem to be much more resilient than the spinning ones.
I joined a month ago with no invite yet so it may take some time.
AFAIK it is free either after you get in. You will need to buy some tokens to generate images. See: https://mixed-news.com/en/openai-announces-pricing-for-dall-...
This does make me wonder if it would be feasible in the future to run these kinds of solutions on your PC, even with pretrained models. Or will these AI solutions generally trend towards being hosted in the "cloud" as consumer PC will never catch up in required resources for them?