the internet used to be about gaming and creating. now it's just a giant farm for AI training, and we’re the ones paying the bill.

look at the market right now. it’s absolute insanity. remember when you could build a decent mid-range rig without selling a kidney? those days are gone. because every big tech company is panic-buying every single chip they can find to feed their "language models," the rest of us are left with the scraps.

RAM & SSD Prices: we’re seeing price hikes again because production is being shifted to high-bandwidth memory for servers. consumer DDR5 and NVMe drives are becoming "luxury" items just because some AI needs to process a trillion tokens.

GPU Gatekeeping: graphics cards aren't even for "graphics" anymore. they’re AI accelerators. manufacturers would rather sell a stack of cards to a data center than one card to a gamer. it’s making the "budget" tier extinct.

The Power Waste: while we’re told to be "eco-friendly," these AI farms are pulling more power than entire cities just to generate weird looking images and mediocre text.

we are tired of seeing "Out of Stock" or "Price Adjusted" every time a new AI trend pops up. we want our hardware back. we want components that are priced for people, not for corporations.

stop prioritizing the bots. start prioritizing the builders.