Consumer DIY ram prices peaked in 2018, and then fell to all-time lows, rising in 2020 and then stabilizing up to about 2022, remaining steady ever since. the current sticker shock in 2025/26 is more about feeling disrupted after a historical period of unprecedented value, but these prices, or rather the super-cycle of consumer DIYContinue reading “Cheap RAM Was the Anomaly, Not the Rule”
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Writing Against the Silence: A New Season, A New Device
I start writing tonight out of a grand sense of malaise. The events in the United States of September 10, 2025 and since have left me feeling untethered in a way that I have not felt since the last infamous date of similar timing, September 11, 2001. I just find it difficult to be motivatedContinue reading “Writing Against the Silence: A New Season, A New Device”
A Bit on Transitions and Changes
I only buy two brands of sneakers. Jordan’s. And New Balance. I have a lot of them. But only those two types. My approach to most things in my regular life is pretty simple. Not so much so in my digital life. As I sit here and type this out on a Chuwi Gemibook thatContinue reading “A Bit on Transitions and Changes”
The Smartphone Market is all the Proof You Need that Consolidation Stifles Innovation
On Friday, Extreme Tech reported that “Someone Found Essential’s Super-Skinny Canceled Android Phone on eBay”, and it reminded me of a conversation we had just had on the most recent episode of the Basement Radio Arcade Podcast. We were discussing market consolidation, and the difficulties in the notion of taking mainstream gaming…FPS’s, RTS’, JRPGs….and movingContinue reading “The Smartphone Market is all the Proof You Need that Consolidation Stifles Innovation”
Rounding Off Infinity 