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I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by chasteinsect@programming.dev to c/technology@beehaw.org

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From : https://techhub.social/@sawaba@infosec.exchange/115924627853343043 (mastodon)

The enshittification of computer repair is happening.

AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.

The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:

The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.

The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.

So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business.

In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.

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[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago

I bought my ADATA Lancer Blade DDR5 6000 MHz CL30 back in May for 95 eur.

I checked December 6 the prices were around 300 eur. Now I check again and it's 500 eur. This is so cooked. I heard SSD's are about to get expensive also. I'm so lucky I did a full upgrade that will last me for a long time, i was even considering whether to upgrade then or wait until winter.