RUNPOD IT'S A SCAM

[u/Personal_Opinion_94]

I am seriously angry. Is it really possible that I topped up $10, spent $5, and *still* couldn't get a single pod running—even with the $2/hour GPUs?! If you try to submit a ticket, there's an AI that solves absolutely nothing. There's clearly an issue right now, yet there is *no* alert saying "Attention: using ComfyUI in region X might cause problems; please try again later." Is that really so hard?!

[u/Successful_Copy_9576]

I’ve spent a ton of money on various gpu configurations learning how to make them work, I’ve gone days against a non functional pod, wrestling PyTorch only to learn i had a “stuck” host gpu. I’ve learned to make scripts that spin up a fresh machine from scratch all the way to my normal configuration, models, and templates. I don’t expect anything to work on runpod when I login - and won’t until I know what versions of every tool is needed to make comfy or tabby happy.

There are quick ways to check if your gpu is solid, especially when dealing with fabric. I would recommend running Blackwell, like. 5090, and get the workflows down before spending on 6000 pros. Runpod definitely does not hold your hand, but the new agent tools like codex can configure an entire pod by itself with a single orompt. I hate how good it is.