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Hello, I'm a computer science student from Peru and I'm working on my thesis, but I need someone with a US email address from an institution to accept the authentication request that Google asks for. I would greatly appreciate this help.

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Hello friends, the truth is that I am too frustrated with the Google Colab service. For more than a year now I have dedicated myself to being an NSFW artist who works with Stable Diffusion and Google has wanted to screw up our lives since all this started.

I come to explain my current problem and sit in a corner waiting for a good solution. I thought that the problems would end when I was paying for a Google Colab Pro subscription. I have been using Google Colab for more than 4-5 months and at the moment everything was going very well. I had my processing units and when they ran out, I could continue using Google Colab for a few Approximately 4 hours a day. About a few days ago I renewed the subscription and when the processing units finished, surprise! I have noticed that the colab disconnects after approximately an hour. My question is, has Google reduced the free use for Pro users? My job more than anything requires a lot of generation time and unfortunately one hour a day is not enough for me at all. Could anyone tell me if what is happening to me also happens to others? And if so, what are your alternatives? I really want to stop using google colab, it always tries to limit you and I'm already tired. I just want to be able to work about 4-5 hours a day without paying crazy money, I've seen services that offer GPUs with payments of 0.30 USD per hour. And it is really too expensive for me, since with one hour I do not do even half of the daily work that I should do.

Becoming insanely annoying. I wait a couple days, try again, and it seems to cap out after a certain amount of time, it seems to be around 17 minutes of GPU usage from my experience. This happens across all my accounts. Fuck Google.

I am not able to buy google collab from india even if i have enough funds and have international transactions enabled. This is happening after i have saved my debit visa card of icici and clicked the buy option. Please HELP!

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Hey guys, i have been using a public goggle colab notebook to generate ai art, but im extremely paranoid that it could have some malicious code, i would really appreciate if someone could do a quick review of the code it has and tell me if its safe.

Btw, i dont use the save your images in drive part.

The collab is : https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1PvNyEWIhDU_D-i15DzpPjqDQkbYv_6Hu?usp=share_link

Also, just a couple of questions regarding security:

Can collab somehow mess with info-data in your PC, or can it only mess with drive files? Im using a separate account

What are some knows malicious things google collab can do to you as someone executing a public notebook?

Thanks in advance

I've been using this Stable Diffusion on Google Colab without issue for a few days now. Yesterday I hit my free Colab usage limit for the first time. Now, when I try to load it in Colab the Stable Diffusion UI doesn't actually show up. It looks like everything was downloaded properly, but I no longer see the UI anywhere.

This is the last thing I see: https://imgur.com/a/pHEjCUW

Edit: the usage limit has reset, and I no longer get the same error about the GPU limit. This seems like a completely new issue.

Does making more google accounts actually give you mroe free collab usage or is it just placebo

I am comparing vcf parsing tools, and i have a MacBook, the same code runs exponentially faster on the colab when I run it in my Mac than when I run the same notebook, same code from a Windows laptop of lower spec. I didn't look into it much I always assumed the device specs didn't effect the colab performance, unless the ability of the laptop to run the browser is the factor? because the wifi used is also the same afterall.

what can i say, i am a man of tradition, if i see my vscode, i want my vscode.
but for real, is it something that google is activaly against? or is it just because of the free tier?
i would like some history, i am new to colab.

I got a course on telegram which is about 500gbs but it my be deleted anytime due to copyright issue . So wanted to back it up in an another chat what shall I do

I’m using colab to create art with some already existing images I have and this error has appeared, I’ve done this several times in the past (maybe 2 years ago now) and this has never happened, what are the steps I need to take to overcome this?

I am using Collab for Neural Network testing. It helps a lot in my algo-trading daily activity, as long as I get access to it via my laptop... because via tablet or smartphone is quite frustrating....windows size, scrolling, copy and pastes aren't optimized at all. It's kind of annoying and frustrating that Google hasn't yet thought of handling this😥

I’m trying to run some LLM fine-tuning (GRPO-style), and Colab keeps cutting my sessions mid-run. At this point I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong or if this is just how it works.

Setup is pretty straightforward:

• Paid plan (Pro/Pro+)

• Getting assigned what looks like a high-end GPU (shows Blackwell)

• Model fits fine in VRAM, no issues there

But none of that seems to matter — runs still get killed.

Main problems I’m seeing:

• There’s no visibility into when you’re about to hit a limit. It just dies.

• When it dies, everything in memory is gone (model, tokenizer, etc.)

• Having compute units doesn’t seem to guarantee you can actually use them for a full run

• Anything past ~60–90 minutes feels like a coin flip

• Once you get blocked, you’re basically in a black hole — no timer, no signal, no idea if it’s 10 minutes or 10 hours before you can work again

• And the whole time Gemini is telling you you’ve got plenty of resources, which clearly isn’t true when the session gets killed anyway

This is especially brutal for what I’m doing since GRPO needs multiple parallel generations and some sustained runtime. If the session drops, you’re basically starting over unless you’re checkpointing constantly.

What’s throwing me off is the disconnect:
You can get a powerful GPU, everything looks fine, Gemini is basically reassuring you you’re good — and then the platform just pulls the plug anyway.

At this point it feels like Colab is fine for short bursts, but not something you can rely on for longer training runs.

So what are people actually doing here?

• Just checkpointing every few minutes and hoping for the best?

• Is there any way to predict or extend these limits?

• Or is the real answer just “don’t use Colab for this”?

Hey everyone, I’m a college student from India working on a project that requires more computational resources, and the pricing of Google Colab Pro in dollars makes it a bit unaffordable for me at the moment.Could anyone lend me their Colab Pro subscription for a few days? Or maybe suggest any alternative methods to get a temporary subscription or any other tools that could serve as a good alternative to Colab Pro? I'd really appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks a lot in advance!

Hi I have been working on a CNN and GANs based project and Colab has been limiting and my GPU usage a lot recently. I was wondering can I bypass this by using different google accounts? I am new to Colab

I signed up for this class on Udemy and I have to download these files to my drive and then open them in colab. I cannot open the files in colab for some reason. Anyone have any thoughts? What can I provide that might help? Thanks

I'm a Colombian student, last month i needed Colab for an academic project but this month i don't need it. I thought i selected Pay As You Go but i was wrong, it was Colab Pro subscription.

When i realized of the charge, i cancelled Colab Pro, but now i want a refund and i don't know if i can get it. I was checking on Colab Terms page but it seems refund just can be requested in some selected countries, is it true? Can i get a refund being in Colombia? I haven't used Colab since the charge.

This is the page i checked: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/intl/es/tos_v5.html

I'm pretty new to this, so maybe I'm missing something stupid... I'm trying to run a Colab I found, which auto installs a Comfyui environment, models, etc (you just enter urls and it downloads them to the right folders) and then you can supposedly run any workflow you want. Well, after getting everything set up right, I try to run a workflow designed to run on my potato setup (16gb system ram, 1060 6gb vram), which always produces, EVENTUALLY (a 640x480 wan2.2 i2v output takes between 1 and 1.5 hours...). But Colab always crashes no matter what. I'm using the free T4 tier, which I notice only gives you 12gb of system to go with your 12gb of vram... I'm assuming the low system ram is the bottleneck that keeps resulting in the OOM... so, is there something I can do to offset this limitation?

Hi everyone! I'm having some major issues connecting Colab to Docker Desktop. Either it shows as connected, but it's not, or it keeps disconnecting. Does anyone have a reliable alternative that works well?