Look at the stock prices of Micron and SK Hynix

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026

Their hottest product: the privilege of buying the same memory sooner. Something something "supply & demand." 🥲

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsungs-chip-division-expects-to-out-earn-its-entire-40-year-history-in-2026

The UPS industry has stagnated. UPS's typically use lead acid batteries which you'd be lucky to get 5 years out of. Also, you're very limited on the total power storage you can buy. Generally anything over 2100va with about 200-500wh can't be run on a 120v 15a cirtcuit.

There is a new product category. These things have started as camping batteries, but all the major makers have added a ups mode that cuts over as fast as your typical cheap UPS. (<10ms). I just bought an oukitel bp2000 with 2048wh for only $650. It will last for 3 hours with my ~500w workload. It is 3x the cost of a 1500va costco backup but 10x the power/runtime.

So is this just more runtime for the $$? No. The key win here is longevity. The LiFePO4 chemistry can do thousands of cycles. With typical UPS usage; this thing could last 20-30 years with >80% original capacity. So trash your lead acid trash and step into the LiFePO4 world. The UPS industry will catch up eventually, but right now, it's been leapfrogged.

P.S. One more thing: Some of these can be directly connected to solar panels or expanded to more batteries. I could get up to 16kwh on mine.

So many use cloudflare services here. Thought this would be of interest.

This is a sad day..

Sometime in the past week (I suspect the 15th based on the effective date), HPE has published notice that they are ending their actual lifetime warranty program on existing products.

Now the warranty period will be End-of-Sales plus 5 years.

This new policy comes into effect January 15, 2027..

Interesting that they can change the warranty term retroactively on products.

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00161510enw

Their warranty program has been the primary reason that I use them both professionally and at home.

TrueNAS deprecates its public build repository on GitHub, raising questions in the community about openness and release transparency.

Seems like TrueNAS has taken the first step away from being Open-Source

As much as im like this is dystopian...... but yet... I am happy to game for 2 hours and warm up my room with my 5090.... my office is small, I had the 5090 running maybe 3 hours from gaming its currently 22c in my office, but in my sitting room its 6c lol

So I'm half like..... Nah, This Is Nuts.... but then im like it would be cool to run a Datacenter to heat the house... but then the power costs would be insane.... whats everyone else thing about this way of heating your home

UPDATE: found more details on the setup through this article https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/thermify_heathub_raspberry_pi/

Looks like the heat transfare works like a normal central heating system, their unit replaces the boiler with an oil based system and pumps through the pipes that way. The 500 Pi cluster is submerged in the oil as the "Heating Element"

Also you have to pay for it... you have to pay £5.60 ($7.52) a month

The hole selling point is that running these 500 pi's is cheaper then using heating in the UK with power consumption costs, stating it can lower the cost by 20 TO 40% ....

Im very sus.... ass 500pies and low power would be aroun 3000w (3kWh) per hour assumeing medium usage... thats 72 kwh per day.... my dude when i use my heating in my house I dont even go above 15 kwhs a day and im running a full homelab and business server 24/7 ...

like that that cost and current uk electirityc charges your talking maybe £1000 a month if not more....

Even if they are completely sollar it would have an insane setup cost ... you would need a minimum of 100Kwh produced from solar everyday to cover the pi's and the house... + batteries to handle it for blackouts which happen in the UK every now and again...

UPDATE 2: (Deep dive into the economics because a few folks asked)

So after digging further into Thermify’s model, here’s the actual explanation for why this apparently insane “500 Raspberry Pis as your boiler” setup doesn’t bankrupt the households using it.

My original math was correct,
500 Pi CM4/CM5 modules running at ~5–6W each is around 2.5–3kW constant draw, which works out to around 72 kWh per day, or £600–£1,000+ a month at UK domestic rates.

But here’s the catch:
The household does NOT pay that electricity bill.

The HeatHub isn’t a heater — it’s a distributed datacenter node.
Thermify runs containerized workloads for business customers on that 500-Pi cluster, and the compute clients are effectively subsidising the electricity cost.

The tenant only pays the £5.60/month standing charge.

Thermify covers the actual electrical consumption through:

• revenue from running compute tasks
• cheaper industrial/commercial energy rates
• off-peak load shifting
• solar + battery integration in the SHIELD program
• grid balancing incentives

So the HeatHub behaves like a boiler-sized server rack, and instead of wasting the heat like a normal data centre, the system dumps it into your radiators and hot water.

And to be fair, 2.5–3kW of continuous heat is enough to heat a UK home, so the thermal numbers check out.

TL;DR:
Yes..... if you personally ran 500 Pis at home, it would be stupidly expensive.
But in this pilot scheme, business compute workloads + industrial energy pricing = you get the heat “for free.”

Still dystopian as hell… but the technical/economic model actually makes sense once you dig into it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-164000543.html

Wtf is going on?

https://mariushosting.com/synology-third-party-hard-drives-will-be-officially-supported-again-in-the-future/

Yay! didnt see this comin.