I have family photos starting in 2001, scanned/captured photos and video going back 50 years, music, and backups of all my Xbox DVDs (WTF is the original Xbox even called today?). But that’s a few terrabytes. It can all fit on a few USB sticks. (Which I do as a third level backup.)

The real space killers are the TV shows and movies that I will watch at most once every 20 years. I could delete almost all of it. But I don’t. Instead I keep looking for bigger storage options.

“criminal investigations take time” is such a bullshit cop out.

How long has Luigi Mangione been in jail? And there is less evidence for Luigi than Trump. We have hours of detailed video of Jan 6th.

How did you handle the reverse proxy in Windows for remote access?

. As soon as a different company

It won’t change for US consumers because Trump won’t allow the cheaper/better products to be imported.

Where’s the profit in that?

If you wanted the absolute largest, you bought American.

No one in Britain bought American made cars in the 1980’s because they weren’t officially imported. American imported cars were grey market that needed extensive conversion to be legal.

That doesn’t mean they all have $20B in cash

Apple has $68B in cash on hand. Not stocks or other investments, cash.

There are documented cases of these same 3 companies colluding to constrain supply,

Yes, but that doesn’t change that there are dozens of companies that could make ram but don’t because they pass off the price increases and blame ram manufacturers while not risking their own money.

Yes, that’s what I said. There are two implications:

1. Sensors never fail which is known not to be true.

2. Tesla doesn’t lie about accident data which is also known to not be true.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash/

It’s the same customer: People buying the absolute largest car sold with features like off-road 4 wheel drive that they have absolutely no intention of using.

If Range Rover offered a 3,000 kg car in 1985, soccer moms would have bought it.

and it’s nearly impossible to become an actor without having tens of billions to start

There are over 300 companies with over a $50B market cap. The money is there.

Micron doesn’t expand production not because they don’t want more money but because they think AI is a fad like everyone else.

They’re like a movie actor who was in obscurity for decades and is suddenly popular. Is it being a traitor when everyone is offering larger and larger amounts for your time?

If you applied for two jobs, both said they wanted to hire you and started budding higher and higher so you’d work for them, are you a traitor to the customers who ultimately pay your inflated salary?

I don’t blame Micron. I blame the people who invested billions into AI which allowed this to happen.

The sensor said he had his foot on the pedal.

40 years ago Alexi Sayle joked about moms driving giant Range Rovers to the shops.

Saying “lte Linux that can run Android” means nothing. All Android phones run Linux and support LTE. It’s an Android phone with restrictions on what Android apps it will run. That’s it. The screen is tiny and two small screens are cheaper than a larger one.

You can buy all of that for $100 on Aliexpress.

This is trash dressed up in a fun skin to sell to Commodore fans who don’t know how to delete an app from their phone.

They can afford assembly in the US but it is cheaper to do it foreign. If foreign assembly was suddenly 8x more expensive, Apple would build their own assembly.

The ram prices makes fabs cost effective for a company like Apple because the current situation isn’t going away in a few years. And Apple owning their own fab doesn’t necessarily mean made local. They will do whatever is cost effective.

There are effectively 4 fabs that actually manufacture RAM dies

Companies like Google and Apple are big enough to start their own fabs. Apple is 6 times larger than Intel.

It was over 20 years ago Intel said something like you aren’t a real company if you don’t have a fab.

I think the big companies like Apple are going to vertically integrate more because the RAM shortage isn’t going away. Even after the AI clouds collapse, home users are going to buy more. No one wants their lives on ChatGPT, but everyone wants a better local spell checker and that’s 128GB per person.

Even $750 would have been slightly overpriced given that comparatively performing mini PCs with discreet gpus have been out for 2 years now for less (pre ai apocalypse).

Is Linux so hard to install that it’s worth $100?

In 10 years the new AI will come out and current AI will be just LLM. People will scoff at the idea that you’d refer to LLM as AI.

Cryptography is a weird include. Everything else is general knowledge but cryptography is a branch off of math. And the math behind it Algebra level: like elliptic curves.