Moomoo_Milk [she/her]

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Cake day: May 29th, 2026

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  • I sold mine last year on eBay due to needing money for bills. I am in a much better spot financially and just picked one up again to replace it (from eBay for less than I sold my old one). I figured now was better than when the secondhand market finally self-corrected and used ones were going for the same price or more than MSRP.

    But gods did Valve beyond over correct on that price. Though I wonder if it’s as much of an overcorrection as people think. When it boils down to it, when it cones to hardware manufacturers, Valve is probably fairly low down the list of importance with RAM producers. They’re probably not getting this RAM for a good price. Also, they’ve probably been funneling their limited capacity into the likely DOA, ill-fated Steam Machines.











  • We’re almost certainly in the twilight of personal computing at this point. The AI bubble was simply the catalyst of its downfall. Once it pops, all of that datacenter buildout is likely to be used for something rather than scrapped, and that something is cloud computing. Gaming and compute heavy workloads will likely be offloaded to the cloud where we’re going to end up paying some form of subscription to use it for any reason or purpose. Home PCs will end up being nothing more than thin clients.

    If the personal computer market somehow survives, it’s going to look very different 5-10 years from now.