As a consumer who nursed an overclocked 1080ti along for 2.5 gens longer than I would've liked thanks to crypto and then AI, I was reading this fearing a positi

As a consumer who nursed an overclocked 1080ti along for 2.5 gens longer than I would've liked thanks to crypto and then AI, I was reading this fearing a positive conclusion - thinking "Oh great, just when it's time to upgrade my 5600x CPU data centers will start driving up already over-priced consumer CPUs too." Although said somewhat tongue in cheek, it has been a rough several years for tech hobbyist consumers. At least the end of Moore's law scaling and the bite of Dennard scaling combined to nerf generational improvements enough that getting by on existing hardware wasn't as nearly as bad as it would've been 20 yrs ago. Now that maybe the AI bubble is just starting to burst, we've got tariffs to ensure tech consumers still won't see undistorted prices. The silver lining in all this is that it got me into retro gaming and computing which, frankly, is really great.