Is personal computing dead? Today we discuss the rise of "Computer Communism" and why you are no longer trusted with your own hardware. From Micron stopping consumer RAM sales to data centers buying up all the supply, the price of PC building is skyrocketing.

We also dive into the "hot potato" of the AI industry, the privacy nightmares buried in new legislation, and why inflation means working an hour today buys you significantly less fast food than it did in the 80s.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro: Computer Communism & The Death of Personal Computing

0:51 - The Hardware Crisis: Why Micron stopped selling to consumers

1:52 - Why NVMe storage shortages are coming next

5:00 - Anthropic acquires Bun (and why it matters)

7:47 - Privacy Nightmare: Texas Senate Bill 2420 Explained

13:33 - "Pop the Bubble": Predicting the AI Crash date

15:06 - OpenAI declares "Code Red" amid rising competition

21:00 - The fragility of the web: Cloudflare outages

23:16 - The Big Mac Index: Real purchasing power 1980 vs. Today

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