True. But at least for me, VA-API was not a known abbreviation, that’s why I copied the long form here.

VA-API is Video Acceleration API

It is probably wise to have the server admins speak the language of your community.

(And feddit.org works fine for me, it’s one of the instances with the highest uptime).

I’e seen that some want it to host their own LLM. It’s far cheaper to buy DDR5 memory than somehow getting 100+ GB of VRAM. Whether or not this is a good idea is another question