I have family photos starting in 2001, scanned/captured photos and video going back 50 years, music, and backups of all my Xbox DVDs (WTF is the original Xbox even called today?). But that’s a few terrabytes. It can all fit on a few USB sticks. (Which I do as a third level backup.)

The real space killers are the TV shows and movies that I will watch at most once every 20 years. I could delete almost all of it. But I don’t. Instead I keep looking for bigger storage options.

How did you handle the reverse proxy in Windows for remote access?

. As soon as a different company

It won’t change for US consumers because Trump won’t allow the cheaper/better products to be imported.

That doesn’t mean they all have $20B in cash

Apple has $68B in cash on hand. Not stocks or other investments, cash.

There are documented cases of these same 3 companies colluding to constrain supply,

Yes, but that doesn’t change that there are dozens of companies that could make ram but don’t because they pass off the price increases and blame ram manufacturers while not risking their own money.

Yes, that’s what I said. There are two implications:

1. Sensors never fail which is known not to be true.

2. Tesla doesn’t lie about accident data which is also known to not be true.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash/

and it’s nearly impossible to become an actor without having tens of billions to start

There are over 300 companies with over a $50B market cap. The money is there.

Micron doesn’t expand production not because they don’t want more money but because they think AI is a fad like everyone else.

They’re like a movie actor who was in obscurity for decades and is suddenly popular. Is it being a traitor when everyone is offering larger and larger amounts for your time?

If you applied for two jobs, both said they wanted to hire you and started budding higher and higher so you’d work for them, are you a traitor to the customers who ultimately pay your inflated salary?

I don’t blame Micron. I blame the people who invested billions into AI which allowed this to happen.

The sensor said he had his foot on the pedal.

But the op is complaining about the much lighter .net where the shared libraries for all apps are a fraction of the space of bringing in an entire OS environment for each and every app.

Don’t even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry “redistributables” constantly required by every tool you try to use.

It’s absurd but Linux is far worse. Instead of addressing library bloat and versioning we have Docker which just throws EVERYTHING into a bag and makes you download an entire OS environment space to run one app.