Just Keep Building... Just Keep Building...

I'm currently at a friend's house, writing this on my laptop. My tailnet (Tailscale network) is working very nicely. I can work on everything on my home network from anywhere, as if the clients were on the same subnet, which is super convenient. It should be good for when I want to work on my server next term while I'm at school.

I'm ordering a ton of PC parts in preparation for the next few months of the PC apocalypse. So far, GPUs don't seem to be affected too much by the RAM crisis. I just got a refurbished RTX 5060 for 228 dollars total cost. Pretty good deal. Overall, I've been moving builds well in this market, but only time will tell.

On Reddit, I've seen many PC builders leaving the PC flipping market, which is signaling more people to get out while they still can. I'm not going to follow the common consensus.

I personally am not worried because, to put it simply, you're crazy if you believe that people WON'T pay absurd prices for builds/parts in a bad market. (I go into more detail in this post)

If it costs too much to build computers to sell, simply raise the prices and pass the cost on to the customer. Currently, I'm relying on people to exit the PC market, so I'll be able to rough it out and stay ahead of others. By "staying ahead, I mean building my reputation as a hardware expert (reviews) and by building connections with suppliers/distributors.

To me, the easiest way to lose your progress is to give up. I'd rather weather the storm than try something new that I know nothing about. The reason I've been able to make consistent hard cash in the hardware market is that I am familiar with it. Hardware is second-nature to me.

Anyhow, I'm about to go eat.

May peace be upon the reader.