🤖 A free Linux box with a 24GB GPU dessert — no card, no rent

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A free Linux box with a 24GB GPU dessert — no card, no rent

ModelScope Notebook: 8 cores · 32 GB RAM · 100 GB disk that survive shutdowns — free with no stated time limit — plus a one-time 36-hour NVIDIA A10 on top

the box is the prize — the GPU is dessert

every free-GPU list screams about the 36 hours. the actual gold: an 8-core / 32 GB Linux machine that stays yours, with 100 GB that survive every shutdown — inside the model hub where Qwen · DeepSeek · GLM · Wan land first

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▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱ what you actually get

GPU tank [██████████] 36 h · one-time · 10 h per session · 1 h idle kill

CPU tank [██████████] ∞ refill — no stated time limit, ever

the lock — the GPU quota needs a China-site Alibaba binding: international accounts can’t link (why) — account yes, GPU dessert maybe-not

▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱ four no-card pumps Baidu · Kaggle · Lightning · Saturn

pump	what it pours	the catch
Baidu AI Studio	V100 16/32GB — recurring daily points + 48h bonus tank: [██░░░░░░░░] tops up every day	foreign SMS works in 207 countries, OTP can still fail
🅚 Kaggle	2×T4 — 30 h every week, resets Sunday 00:00 UTC tank: [██████░░░░] the biggest weekly pour	phone verification unlocks the GPU
Lightning AI	up to 80 GPU-h — L4 24GB, A100 40GB tank: [███████░░░] one big pour, then it’s gone	phone-verified, promo numbers shift
Saturn Cloud	150 compute-h/month, no card at all tank: [██████████] the largest no-card pour	GPU model varies by availability

▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱ three tricks stay hidden tap each one open

THE TUNNEL TRICK — “no inbound ports” is beatable: ComfyUI + Cloudflare Tunnel = a public URL, outbound-only (proven recipe)

THE 36h → ∞ TRICK — bootstrap script + weights + checkpoints in /mnt/workspace = one quota, unlimited sessions

THE AGENT TRICK — Chinese users let Meta’s Muse agent run the whole registration + binding click-work, then deploy straight onto the GPU

▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ almost empty — read this before you touch anything

NOT a server — 10 h cap + idle kill + no inbound ports: this is a workshop, not hosting

NOT the whole internet — Hugging Face is blocked inside; the moat is the China-side mirrors + recipes

NOT a backup disk — /mnt/workspace persists, but it’s convenience storage, no SLA — export what matters

the recurring trap: free API requests ≠ promo credits ≠ queued swarms ≠ a real free GPU VM — only the first three are truly worldwide without a card

Rent the GPU when it’s free. Keep the box forever.

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THE HUNGRY-DEV MENU

before — renting GPUs by the month
after — your own free Linux kitchen: 8 cores · 32 GB RAM · 100 GB fridge
dessert — one giant 36-hour slice of 24 GB GPU
cake finished? Kaggle · Baidu · Lightning · Saturn refill you free, weekly