Designed by AI. This going to be great. They'll waste production capacity on it too.

12VHPWR seems to be hubris manifest.

It used to be that the only PSU cables thst regularly caught fire were the $2 Molex-to-SATA converters.

They're buying out "years" of future capacity. Years. The pie isn't shrinking much. When the bubble pops things will improve. Not a moment before.

More sellers means smaller pieces of the pie for everybody - if supply reaches demand. CXMT will have to distinguish themselves somehow in the market. If it's just virtue of being able to provide chips to those who couldn't get any, then yes, the price doesn't have to drop. But how many data-centers can they build and for how long?

Endless growth doesn't exist.

Known price-fixer announced more price fixing! News at 8.

Product manufacturer says their product will be in a short supply well into the future while those products are priced sky high so there’s no point in waiting for things to get normal.

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They've said they will be selling at market value. Capitalist China is not going to be your savior.

I envy your resolve, I probably won't be able to boycott RAM manufacturers forever

Besides, I think that consumers boycotting them would not make much of an issue, otherwise they would probably not screw us over so hard in the first place

Looking at local prices, laptops are already going up, even on existing stock, while new releases tend to get postponed - new AMD/Nvdia GPUs, Medusa Halo. Nvidia RTX Spark laptops are launching next week, and prices are expected to be even higher than initial plans (+ DGX Spark price hikes).

I mean yeah? Are u never gonna buy RAM again or what?

Sell out or sell to. Unless the Chinese one over produces to such a degree that it will undercut the others, it won't have much impact.

Won't they just sell out too? My bet is "Big 4."

Isn't the new Chinese RAM producer going to undercut the big 3? Or will they just become the big 4?

So glad I did my hardware purchases for the next 5 years before this happened. Could use a new video card though, ugh

I require 2 SIMs right now because I don't have another good enough anti-spam measure.
But if I can get a Linux phone, I can make my own anti-spam measures, so it should be fine, hopefully.

In some countries, FM Radio is one of the official channels for alerts and information in case of crisis.

People are expected to have a FM receiver that runs on battery, ideally one that can be recharged with a crank or solar panel.

If Internet goes down, either during a small or large-scale outage, it's good to have a way to get broadcast and information.

nah, same-ish in eu... i tend to go for the really low end (motorola usually has a phone for about 100-200€) cos i only really use lemmy, calls, messaging and bank (the one that doesn't let me switch to custom full time D:) and they usually last me at least 2 years... don't think a flagship would last me 10 tbh x)

Can't you buy a number and redirect it to another number?

In the US, on eBay you can get a used Pixel 7 Pro for around $200. It's a flagship from a few years ago, and you can install GrapheneOS. I'm willing to bet it's more powerful than this phone, too. I'd always recommend something like that first. Maybe not as feasible for people overseas though?

I use one for my work number and one for my not-work number.

the saddest part is that we normalised 650$ phones being 'mid-range'

What's the use of having 2 sim slots?

Is it for people who live in one country and work in another?

As much as I would like it, nothing has radio these days. But does make sense without data plans /internet