{"id":44479,"date":"2026-05-07T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44479"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:23:33","slug":"admin-note-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/07\/admin-note-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Admin Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I just recalled that I promised to give the name of the shop that built my new computer, who I managed to sweet talk into installing Fedora rather than Windows – your mileage may vary, it’s not an advertised service – and that name is … Computer Repair & Services<\/strong><\/em>, located in Stillwater, MN, and other locations in Wisconsin. While I can’t speak to longevity, so far Fedora’s run well, with just one hang involving BOINC<\/strong><\/em>, and they installed various packages for me.<\/p>\n

My only complaint is that running public computing is problematic because doing so activates a loud fan, and I don’t have this box hiding in a server room, it’s sitting on a shelf next to me. I’ve been working with them on this question.<\/p>\n

Relevantly, this mail came in a few minutes ago, from which I will clip:<\/p>\n

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We’re reaching out today to let you know that we’ll have a\u00a0price increase on June 1st<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Our prices will increase 10-13% on products and services, and there will be a 3% credit card fee on every transaction moving forward. You might notice a difference the next time you do business with us,\u00a0so<\/strong>\u00a0we wanted to share the exact reasons why:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The expansion of AI data centers has\u00a0spiked hardware and component costs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by roughly 15% in many cases.Additionally, RAM prices have more than doubled, and computer prices have risen by 30% since 2025.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you’re looking for a computer beyond standard configurations, or soon will be, and are price-sensitive, you might wish to reach out sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just recalled that I promised to give the name of the shop that built my new computer, who I managed to sweet talk into installing Fedora rather than Windows – your mileage may vary, it’s not an advertised service – and that name is … Computer Repair & Services, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44482,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44479\/revisions\/44482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}