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Ram prices. Those of us who saw it coming, apparently a number between 7% and 15%, bought a bridge PC before the price gouging started.
And now SSD and hard drive prices. Keep your tech going, it's going to be a long few years, if ever, before affordability returns. They (cloud and AI tech-holes) want local compute and storage to be unaffordable so we use their crap. F-ck that, I'm gonna scavenge whatever I can to keep self-hosting to the bitter end.
i've salvaged enough older ddr3/ddr4 stuff and sata ssd to hopefully last until i see some newer stuff go through here destined for the recycle heap. but what i am short on is spinny hdd for more ''archive'' storage, i'm down to my last couple smaller hdd
Those who saw it coming and also had capital available to act on it did so.