Jan Wildeboer 😷
Observation: more and more companies are adding a year of use (from typically 36 months to now 48 months) to their corporate servers/laptops to keep the exploding hardware costs for renewal under control. Most machines come with max 36 months of (onsite) warranty, so they accept the risk of being 12 months out of warranty.
I for one am happy that I finished my hardware update cycle well before the prices started to rise and will not need new RAM, NVME, spinning hard drives or a new laptop for at least the next 4 years.
Joe Brockmeier@jwildeboer big same. If prices return to Earth in 2-3 years, it’ll be about time for me to think about refreshing my main system. Or maybe not. It’s a Core i7 13th gen with 64GB RAM and 4TB nvme. If none of the components fail (knocks on wood) it’ll still be perfectly serviceable for Linux desktop use for several more years.
I’m glad I’m not a gamer into the latest GPU thing. My pockets just aren’t that deep anymore.
Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) 
@jzb @jwildeboer I regret not buying new hard drives last year. I panic-bought everything else because of the tariff scare. 😦