I don’t pull the lever so there’s no witnesses.

I don’t think Bertazzo died “mid-flight”

I found my AliExpress stuff to be more reliable than my Amazon stuff.

That just sounds like twitch without any parasocial relationships or community.

Are you pointing to a price-performance degradation or a measurable degradation on hardware with all other factors controlled? The latter doesn’t exist.

All the SEO slop that appears similar to your link (that I’m definitely not clicking) are for PC builders and nobody is making these outrageous claims for server builders.

There are workloads that demand a higher memory-to-compute ratio than others. Web server? Throw them a bone sure. But they mainly want computing power. Big database? Can’t have enough, and can’t have them fast enough. Especially when a single index can be multiple gigabytes big.

It does seem to be a one pump chump

Isn’t this just a bailout?

They’re slowly becoming the necessary evil in this day and age. At least they’re not Meta, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI / Microsoft, or Amazon.