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

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**Tags:** freebies, cloud-storage, ai, cloud\
**Created:** [November 12, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-free-linux-box-with-a-24gb-gpu-dessert-no-card-no-rent/327199 "2026-11-12T17:50:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-free-linux-box-with-a-24gb-gpu-dessert-no-card-no-rent/327199/1 "2026-11-12T17:50:25Z")

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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

 ![free linux box, gpu dessert](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/e/f/efc48eda94a86a2c032b13feaee3c87968a70aa3.jpeg)

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](https://www.modelscope.cn/docs/notebook/intro.md) 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](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/aliyun-vs-alibaba-cloud)) — account yes, GPU dessert maybe-not

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

| pump | what it pours | the catch |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 🇨🇳 [Baidu AI Studio](https://ai.baidu.com/ai-doc/AISTUDIO/nk39v9kec) | **V100 16/32GB — recurring daily points** + 48h bonus  

tank: [██░░░░░░░░] tops up every day
 | foreign SMS works in 207 countries, OTP can still fail |
| 🅚 [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/docs/efficient-gpu-usage) | 2×T4 — **30 h every week** , resets Sunday 00:00 UTC  

tank: [██████░░░░] the biggest weekly pour
 | phone verification unlocks the GPU |
| ⚡ [Lightning AI](https://lightning.ai/pricing) | up to **80 GPU-h** — L4 24GB, A100 40GB  

tank: [███████░░░] one big pour, then it’s gone
 | phone-verified, promo numbers shift |
| 🪐 [Saturn Cloud](https://saturncloud.io/try/) | **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](https://developer.aliyun.com/article/1470175))

💾 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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**Author:** ![pintas\_m](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/pintas_m/32/162057_2.png) [@pintas\_m](https://onehack.st/u/pintas_m)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-free-linux-box-with-a-24gb-gpu-dessert-no-card-no-rent/327199/2 "2026-11-12T18:14:54Z")

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**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-free-linux-box-with-a-24gb-gpu-dessert-no-card-no-rent/327199/3 "2026-11-12T18:26:03Z")

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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
