TheReturnOfPEB comments on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 91 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

no RAM, no hard drives, no GPUs, no drones, and no routers.

Freedom hits different now that like six people own 50% of everything.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was about to argue "couldn't people just buy a Raspberry Pi and put OpenWRT or OpnSense on it?" before realizing Raspberry Pis are also seeing price increases.

Holy fuck, what the fuck are we gonna do now?!

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[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago (1 child)

There's a billion 2nd hand old laptops and stuff everywhere

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 point 7 months ago

exclusions apply: i've been building my own router out of second hand parts for the last 15 years and the pickin's are very slim rn.

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