I'd add the gold rush for hardware to mine crypto coins, depending what component you're looking at. What stands out to me is that you can't rely on pricing ac

I'd add the gold rush for hardware to mine crypto coins, depending what component you're looking at. What stands out to me is that you can't rely on pricing acting predictably any more, it used to be that when a new product/generation released there would be a few weeks of high demand/short supply, but when that was satisfied it would be a nice graceful decline over its lifespan until the next generation was nearly ready to come out and take its place in the market. You can look at old PCPartPicker trends graphs via archive.org to see this over and over. Now it feels like trying to catch a falling knife and it really raises the threshold for whether I actually need an upgrade versus other areas of my life where I could spend.