1 Word. ok its not even a word.. HODL.
I feel the pain on the gpu (and asic) farming, we need to make mining great again.
A year ago people said dont buy GPU/ASIC, take the money and invest it in the coin instead. I didn't listen, I doubled down....
Well if you had followed that advice to take the same money instead of buying mining equipment, just buy coins at the prices a year ago --- you would of lost 60-70% of that investment. At least putting it into mining hardware, you have some coin, some experience (that will help in some way some day in a career, or side project), and you can keep running it in the 'red' and HODL. Don't bother trying to sell the gear on ebay - its like trying to sell your coin at the bottom, its just too late. Ride it out.
Such conversations occur every year.
I think mining on the GPU/CPU will never die. New coins come out, new algorithms appear only under the GPU or the CPU.
Video cards can mine everything, they are omnivorous, unlike ASICs.
And in the mining on video cards there is a share of enthusiasm...I like it.
Honestly, I never used my RIGs to make profit. I never sell new coins on next day. I'm watching the launch of new altcoins, mine them and HODL.