Just don’t change your phone every year. Bought a cheap Xiaomi 4 years ago and as long as it doesn’t explode I’ll use it forever
Exactly.
Phones don’t age the way they used to. For most people, new phones offer little.
If they’d learn to simply reset it when it goes wonky from installing a million things…
I’m hard on phones from a software perspective - I do a lot of testing because I’m the family IT. I’ve always used 2 year old phones. My current phone is a Pixel 5 running a Lineage fork, and it works great. I’ll replace it when hardware (other than screen battery) dies.
Those RAM prices will drop like a rock soon. When AI investments are shown to not yield returns on investment, the investments will plummet, and at that time RAM production will be higher than ever.
So if you can, hold out a few months on buying anything where RAM is a factor.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.
And I know you aren’t investing here, but the point is that if you’re looking for things like bubbles to pop when you expect it, don’t. This could last for years yet if there’s enough will for idiots to keep buying.
The question is how soon.
The bubble can go on for a long time with circular financing schemes and it has full backing of the US gov.
It’s worth pointing out that lack of RIO has been a thing for a while now.
it has full backing of the US gov.
Gov, yes, MAGA base, no. The MAGA base, including people like Bannon, are at odds with the tech oligarchy. While the tech bubble strains markets and eventually wrecks them, Trump’s love of the broligarchy strains his base. Both will hurt almost everyone, but I’d like to think no-one will feel the brunt of this madness more than the US admin as the US economy trips over its own hubris.
I said this about GPU prices once, with coin mining instead of ai
Because at least bitcoin has a useful purpose (hiding money the government)
That’s not true, Bitcoin is so well-tracked that the USfgovt was able to yoink back all of the coins used in the Silk Road in the years since.
Coins provide a cryptographic ledger that is useful for a few things, but the “privacy” thing was always sort of a hoax.
