Post B2VTsZ2Pp55nE0zrns by sawaba@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #B2VTsOXYqwTCfQU5K4 by sawaba@infosec.exchange
       2026-01-20T00:37:23Z
       
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       The enshittification of computer repair is happening.AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business. In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6eiFyJMWgMcc @pluralistic @iFixit
       
 (DIR) Post #B2VTsQKWCPE2DYOhGq by radix023@noauthority.social
       2026-01-21T10:28:01Z
       
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       @sawaba @pluralistic @iFixit Good News! Adam Smith's "invisible hand" is still functioning! More money into memory and storage means more facilities being built to manufacture memory and storage. Volumes of production will rise. Prices will fall and with a larger economy of scale the size and speed of storage and memory will be a better value than before.This too shall pass!
       
 (DIR) Post #B2VTsTvUpNaRN6ilpA by sawaba@infosec.exchange
       2026-01-20T05:27:55Z
       
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       @pluralistic @iFixit It just KILLS me that repairable, modular manufacturers are getting punished here, because they can be more easily stripped for their most valuable parts and then discarded.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2VTsZ2Pp55nE0zrns by sawaba@infosec.exchange
       2026-01-20T05:32:26Z
       
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       @pluralistic @iFixit and it’s not even that computer repair was enshittified here - it’s that the sphere of AI enshittification influence has enveloped PC repair and destroyed its margins in a matter of months.