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Good thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
In fairness if you really needed to you could rent this kind of compute via a service like vast.ai, it'd probably still be cheaper than paying a ransom.
Just build a new one, at the cost of....
Nevermind, pay the ransom.
You don't need a whole new system just another clean hard drive to boot from and use the 16x RTX 4090 to calculate the code. EZPZ.