Wandering Adventure Party

@pseudonym @oneguynick Spotchecked a few other cname.toolforge.org sites and they all work. It's just Wikiflix

@pseudonym @oneguynick I've been doing broad research and work all day - have probably loaded over 100 websites (including infosec.exchange, which is as far from a bank as you could probably get), which is what makes me suspect it's probably a bad categorization in some kind of content filtering

confirmed I can get to the site just fine on other networks, just not via Marriott's hotel wifi.

@pseudonym @oneguynick this is the only website I can find that it's doing it for

@oneguynick appears to be blocked on hotel wifi??

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.

cc @pluralistic @iFixit