Honestly, I’m becoming convinced that crashing the availability of meaningfully performant consumer-purchasable machines is an intentional and explicit element of the plan. The captains of industry are predicating a HUGE part of their value proposition on making “edge compute” live in datacenters, and never on client machines, full stop.

The dream of the Captains of Industry is to sell us subscriptions for literally everything and anything they can. You can already see this happening with PC remote gaming services getting more and more prevalent.

Go on eBay (or ); look for good condition enterprise components; build a homelab. The cloud is just someone else’s computer - be your own cloud.

Also, check out and get into mesh networking.

Feels like I read this headline 5 times this year... and I probably have. The hardware industry sucks so hard.

first RAMs then GPUS then CPUS WTF