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Cake day: April 22nd, 2025

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  • Because it has risen in price and availability is so sparse. Intel is playing under the same rules of scarcity as everybody else. There’s simply less of these cards to go around as well. There’s not a huge market available.

    Base model has been sold out for a while. My closest Microcenter hasn’t had them since last year. You could actually get them at MSPR($250) for a while too. The next cheapest version is a 3rd party model that has been siting at $290-$310 for most of the year now. Then there are these $500+ models that are basically collectors items at that price. Ebay is the wild west of prices and they’re all $100 past where they’re reasonable. Ebay’s not a super trustable source either. Everything on NewEgg that is sitting at $250 is refurbished. The one new base model they have is almost $600. It makes no sense.

    I’ve been in the market for one of these cards to replace my 5700xt. It’s been a wild year keeping track of these prices. At times it is the best card available, and at other times you’re playing a guessing game with older but stronger AMD stock. The kicker is the 12GB of VRAM. There’s nothing in the price range of the Arc with that much VRAM. But there’s also cards with less VRAM that are supposed to be more performant. As much as I want one, I’m probably gonna wait till the holiday season to see availability and sales. That’s been the game since last year.




  • I’m honestly torn between Nvim and Emacs right now. I’m a long time vim user and been on Nvim for 10+ years. The rate at which they change config methods kinda drives me nuts. The change from vimscript to lua, and then a new mixup of lua to another syntax of lua, NEED TO CHANGE THE LUA!!! It’s too much. I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while because the plugin ecosystem moves lightning fast. Now most of the time I feel like I’m using a half baked config solution even on a new from scratch setup.

    Emacs feels like a breath of fresh air. I’m still working out the kinks but it feels like it just works when I tell it to do something. I’m not using evil mode. I dove head first into vanilla and it’s been really nice. ELisp is wild. I have no fucking clue what I’m doing with it, but it all seems to be working. The fact that it took me 3 days to get my Emacs setup to where I am with Nvim and beyond was a great start to the switch. I’m really enjoying Emacs and there’s definitely a past version of me going ‘What the fuck’ right now.