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While I agree the prices are absurd I don’t think the lower capacity thing helps anymore. It used to be a lot cheaper because there were like manufacturing issues with packing more space onto an ssd but the main thing pushing prices up now is that the NAND chips are competeing with the AI hardware for space on the assembly line. So the companies still making consumer NAND are going to prioritize the higher capacity more expensive and higher margin products. I’d guess lower capacity stuff just doesn’t exist in the volume needed at all. I wouldn’t be surprised if soon the lowest you can find for an SSD is 1TB and its expensive as fuck. The AI companies really are just decimating global production of every computer component. I hope China comes in and steals the market from them while they’re neglecting it.

Yeah I’m actually about to sell my desktop just because I barely use it and need the money and its probably worth more than it was when I bought it now. I have a laptop (a 2nd hand corpo fleet one i got for cheap funnily enough) and will just use that. Not a big gamer anymore. Maybe play a game once a month tops.

When I was a kid I have memories of filling up my tray with food then when I got to the cash register to pay and my parents hadn’t put money on my account they’d take the tray, throw all the food in the trash right in front of me, and give me a roll with a slice of american cheese on it. I was 5.

I remember one time when I was very young and working as cashier at a grocery store a family came through (mom, dad, and like 2 year old kid). They scanned their EBT card and it came up like 1.25$ short. The mom said she would put the bread back and I just did a manual coupon for 1.25$ to 0 out their balance instead. They acted as if I’d just done something so amazing for them but like this is a multi-million dollar company I think it can afford to give you a 1.25$ coupon so you can have bread? To me it wasn’t even a big deal. We gave stupid boomers coupons to shut them up when they compained all the time. But America is so backwards that helping someone out in need is seen as a shocking thing. While it’s entirely normal to give free stuff to annoying petit-bourgeois who are having a temper tandrum.

The blockade is an act of war by itself as long as that is on the ‘ceasefire’ isnt real. The US just used way too much gear and got nothing for it. So it stopped. The US has basically been in a holding pattern for the last 2 months because it has no idea how to undo its own loss.

They’ll try but the Zionists are going to learn what FPV drones are good at as they are in Lebanon so I don’t think it’ll go well for them.

I have a suspicion that the US is being told by the gulf states that it has to leave and so is telling Iran “Yeah we’re willing to leave!” as if its not out of their hands at this point.

What would the alternative be though? Iran just doesn’t get nukes and the US 100% bombs them again? From Iran’s perspective at this point there’d be no real downside to getting nukes. If the US does start nuclear war then it’s just like become everyone elses problem instead of just theirs. So like yeah maybe it won’t work, but I see no reason they wouldn’t give it a go.

Technically the ceasefire doesn’t exist. Since the blockade itself is a violation of it and has been ungoing. This is less of a ceasefire and more just the US saying, “We are running out of bombs so will be stopping the unending bombing for awhile.” and Iran being like “Alright.” So yeah the US position is completel nonsense which is why I try to look at what Iran is saying to see what is actually going on.

one can dream

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If Iran is smart they’ll use the time a deal like this buys them to get nukes. That way the US can’t come back later to bomb again.

So I can’t tell you anything specific since I’m the live in a trailer in the woods type and have no idea how to manage getting an apartment in california (you mentioned being there in another comment). I can give you some general advice though for making your money go as far as possible.

Big one is phone plan. Most people overspend on this. You can get unlimited call/text/1GB per month of data for 8$ per month with US mobile and I think Tello too? There are also similar deals if you need a bit more data. I just use wifi for most things so the data isn’t needed. When not at home I don’t use my phone for anything but calling, texting, music, and navigation. So I have Organic Maps downloaded to work offline, and mp3s stored. Cheap as dirt.

For food Chicken Quarters are a great hack to get meat for cheap. You can buy a 10lbs bag for 8.99$ where I am atleast. Just take them out and bag them up individually (You’ll want large ziploc freezerbags for this) and put them in the freezer to use when needed. Pair that with some rice with a bit of peanut butter mixed in and you’ve got a very filling meal for dirt cheap. Season it however you want. If you mix up the rice recipe and do the chicken different each time (like use bbq one day, orange sauce another, lemon pepper another, etc) it keeps a lot of variety while staying quite cheap.

For clothes you can sometimes find bulk amazon returns of stuff for sale. Like I got a pack of t shirts that are normally like 35$ each that just had a few strings or other minor defects. It was 12$ for 10 shirts. Just sent to me in a big bag. I snipped off the strings and washed them and theyre serving me well.

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A dollar saved is always better than a dollar earned. Be frugal as fuck in all things, and good luck.