Final catchup for Hive Fest 10

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Hey @jetyap - I'm glad you posted this as I didn't know what your Hive handle was. It was nice to meet you at the Day 1 session at the REXKL venue, and then to chat over beer with you and @akumagai at Chain Culture. Now following you on Hive!
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Hey jet, hope you're doing well.

I'm back in Philippines. No more travel for me this year. It's great to see you posting man.

Man, still lots of memories. Especially after yesterday HF28...

We are now on the new code.

No more travel "outside of NZ" for me too.

Hey glad we’re connected now! It’s been awesome to know you and spend time talking about things. I’ll be sure to say hi if I ever decide to drop by Japan again. God and universe willing :)

Hey pogi! Had a blast on ChainCulture with you. Stay safe from the typhoons! Hopefully 2026 will bring more exciting travels.

I’m still wrestling with my servers. Proxmox, and a whole bunch of hard drives that were in storage spaces that I’m figuring out how to rebuild and access before wiping them out. Hopefully I can install some Hive software soon

Ping when needed... I had a pretty rough week too (yesterday was an exception), so looking for some rest during this weekend, maybe.

Was just telling @starkerz how much HDD prices have been going up in the second hand market, particularly large storage > 10T

yeah... I am lucky that I don't have to worry about SSDs even :D

HDDs market is just taking advantage of the SSD market (because SoC's are all flowing into the AI market). Memory and anything that involves memory chips will be (are) a monopoly in the near future...

Samsung
Hynix
Micron
Kioxia

And then because TSMC operates most of the world's foundry edge tech orders... they have their own share...

And they are probably agreeing on prices or exploiting pricing... either.

Next year is going to get worse. Hopefully this gets stopped by some sort of miracle... but so far, looking very hard.

Still looking at ARM to see if they get to dismount some of the monopoly here by adoption, but hard to tell as they are themselves trying to survive or risking being swallowed by the biggest giants... like NVIDIA! Intel might try something very weird next year, too, as they are starting to compete by price, supported by US tax patriotism alongside NVIDIA support, too.

The market on this is all fked up. Making my IRLW life slightly harder...

For sure 2026 is just around the corner.

Typhoon didn't hit me hard like the rest of the poor souls around me.