"Free printables for kids" is one of the most oversold phrases on the internet.
Half the sites mean *free after you make an account*.
I checked 13 of them. Here's what's actually free, and what each one is genuinely good at 🧵
"Free printables for kids" is one of the most oversold phrases on the internet.
Half the sites mean *free after you make an account*.
I checked 13 of them. Here's what's actually free, and what each one is genuinely good at 🧵
Printing tips that save the most money:
• Print greyscale — coloring pages don't need colour ink
• Laminate tracing sheets, use a dry-wipe pen. One print, not thirty
• Test one page first — coloring sheets get clipped by default margins
Your next laptop, phone, or SSD is about to get a lot more expensive — and the reason has almost nothing to do with the device itself.
It's a memory crisis. And it's just getting started.
The forecast (via Jefferies) is brutal:
• RAM + SSD prices: +40-50% THIS quarter
• Another +30-40% next quarter
• ~40-45% more across 2027
• No real relief until 2028
Prices could nearly double before they ease.
So who's eating all the memory? AI.
The data-center build-out has created a bottomless appetite for chips. Cloud giants are now locking up roughly HALF of the world's memory supply — signing 2-year deals and paying 40% upfront just to guarantee it.
Everyone else — the people building your laptop, your phone, your PS5 — is left fighting over the scraps.
Here's the stat that reframes it:
Memory used to be ~15-18% of what a laptop costs to build.
Today it's ~35%.
When a third of a device's cost suddenly jumps 40%+, that doesn't get absorbed. It lands straight on the price tag.
What's getting pricier:
→ RAM kits & SSDs (first and hardest hit)
→ Laptops & desktops
→ Phones, especially high-storage models
→ Graphics cards
→ Game consoles (some already raised prices once this year)
The quiet irony:
The AI you may not even use is making the gadgets you DO use more expensive. A data center outbid you for the parts.
If you genuinely need an upgrade, buying now — with extra RAM and storage headroom — probably beats waiting. Relief isn't expected until ~2028.
Holding off on a new device, or locking one in before prices climb? 👇
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 — its most powerful model yet — then let a government list decide who can use it.
Sol, Terra & Luna: live for ~20 vetted partners only.
Same day, D.C. cleared Anthropic's Mythos 5.
Frontier AI now ships through Washington 👇
https://t.co/xV6UsB0cNp
Your next MacBook costs more because of AI — not tariffs.
Apple hiked Macs & iPads 20%+. Xbox jumps up to $150 from Aug 1.
The culprit: AI's hunger for memory chips pushed prices 2.5x+, set to double by 2027.
You're footing the bill for the AI boom 👇
https://t.co/y5hGX5uy4D
📉 $2.7 TRILLION wiped off Big Tech in a month.
The Magnificent Seven + Broadcom + Oracle are sliding as investors finally ask: when does all this AI spending actually pay off?
Is the bubble deflating? 👇
https://t.co/RThSWwiwAs
👓 Meta just made AI smart glasses mainstream: its own-brand Adventurer & Fury at $299 (plus a $399 Kylie Jenner edition), with live translation in 20 languages — same hardware as Ray-Ban Meta, minus the designer markup. 👇
https://t.co/ln0lNdReE7