Hardware prices are completely insane right now. In the US, we're talking about over a grand for a used GTX 3090 - a GPU that launched in 2020! According according to PCPartPicker, 16 gigs of DDR4-3200 cost around $50 a year ago. Now it's over $150. And people are now "shucking" external hard drives - popping them open to extract the HDD to use as internal storage - due to the spike in SSD prices.
*Puts tinfoil hat on* It's almost as if they don't want us owning our own computers anymore...
