I mean, besides oil prices, the only reason why hardware is more expensive than it was before is because people are hoarding it, fearing that it won’t be available in the future. But there’s no reason why new and better hardware shouldn’t be engineered and made available unless there is another world war.

The electronic hardware cartel has stopped designing new hardware, but it was a deliberate choice to inflate prices. They even backpedaled on 5090s

Only because there is artificial scarcity in play

Interesting.

At the end the only thing that matters is if this approach saved money/time compated to the opposite. If Linus keeps employing it, it works for him. He definitely isn’t an AI apologist, I think, so it’s not like he profits from speaking positively or negatively about AI

Actually, he’s got a point. I get why some sides of gaming community are frowned upon, but gaming is a good hobby to have, in general compared to other “media” based hobbies. Definitely better than tv series and smartphones