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Yeah, at this point. You probably should not be getting rid of any "old gear" unless it is really so old its not "useful" that is a different requirement for most people but you get what I intend by that.

Source: https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/

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>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.

Yeah, at this point. You probably should not be getting rid of any "old gear" unless it is really so old its not "useful" that is a different requirement for most people but you get what I intend by that. Source: https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/ From the post: >>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.
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The home computer will disappear and only mobile devices will exist. We will be totally unable to use any sort of data accessing without payment, surveillance and/or permission.

Worse than it already is.

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Correct. The good news is eventually, the AI boom and hyperscalers will mature and weaken demand. But that won't be a year or two. I expect 5 years or so. But I don't know the time line. The other facet is this high demand will ramp up production until the demand subsidies. Fascinating for sure.

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Do tell. What for example is a hyperscaler.

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A company that builds and operates massive, highly scalable computing infrastructures designed to support enormous workloads—think cloud services, AI training, global applications, and storage at planetary scale.

Think AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, or Alibaba—that owns and operates hyperscale data centers.