Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.Tl;dr at the end.For the better part of two decades, consumers lived in a golden age of tech. Memory got cheaper, storage increased in capacity and hardware got faster and absurdly affordable. Upgrades were routine, almost casual. If you needed more RAM, a bigger SSD, or a faster CPU or GPU, you barely had to wait a week for a discount offer and you moved on with your life. This era is ending.What’s forming now isn’t just another pricing cycle or a short-term shortage, it is a structural shift in the hardware industry that paints a deeply grim outlook for consumers. Today, I am urging you…
