Not sure what state you’re in, but some of those conditions are likely illegal. Might be worth getting a lawyer. I also know a few people who had asshole landlords until they said they were leaving and then they were suddenly nice when they realized they had to start looking for a new tenant.
Obviously that’s super situational and you know your landlord best.
If you’re in a big city, it can be a bit of the grass is greener on the other side.
I rent and have looked into buying property, but between property tax, insurance, condo fees, and interest its better to just keep your house down payment in savings in the market, and you spend less per month in rent than for a house so you can save that difference as well and let it grow / use it for a rainy day.
The main reason to own property is to have more control over your living space and avoid shitty landlords.
The way I saw it was the upside is appreciation (though the money is locked away in the property, so its very “break in case of emergency”) and its a good hedge against inflation from rent, though that would probably cause your house price to rise causing your property taxes to rise.
As far as energy goes, its a matter of degree. LLMs are mainly bad emissions-wise because of the volume of calls being made. If you’re running it on your GPU, you could have been playing a game or something similarly emitting.
The issue is more image generation models which are 1000 times worse https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/
Original Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863
A moderately sized text-to-text model that you would run locally is about 10g of carbon for 1000 inferences which is driving a car about 1/40th of a mile. Even assuming your model is running in some kind of agentic loop, maybe 5 inferences / actual response (though it could be dozens depending on the architecture) that gets to you, that’s 10gcarbon / 200 messages to your model which is at least 2-3 sessions on the heavy end I would think. You could use it for a year and its equivalent to driving 3 miles if you do that every day.
Image generation, however, is 1000-1500x that so just chatting with your GF isn’t that bad. Generating images is where it really adds up.
I wouldn’t trust these numbers exactly, they’re more ball-park. There’s optimizations that they don’t include and there’s a million other variables that could make it more expensive. I doubt it would be more than 10-20 miles in a car / year for really heavy usage though.
Its not just canada, its anywhere that gets snow regularly. I’ve lived throughout the northeast US and there’s these idiots everywhere.
I totally misread your comment. I thought they were making you pay for all that stuff, lol. Like if you have no electricity or generator, that’s illegal in most states.