eh. it’s also a matter of getting better parts.

Just ordered my DIY AMD 13 and picked up an Sk hynix P41 1TB for $85 from microcenter–Framework wants $100 for a slower SN770. Same deal with RAM: picked up 32GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 for $96, whereas Framework wants $160.

I’m not knocking Framework here at all, because I know they have their own overhead here and it’s convenient to get RAM in the package. But this is one advantage of their DIY model I really appreciate–$75 price difference for better parts is well worth it.

Are they, though? Twitter is going a really odd way around making money if that’s their goal. To me, I see it as a mix of a few things: the post 2016/cambridge analytica wave of moderation and institutionalization of safety & responsibility, stagnation, meta’s withdrawal from Facebook as a platform altogether, higher interest rates, and a rising wave of political reaction. Obviously Reddit doesn’t necessarily hit on all of those, but it’s not unaffected, either.