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That’s fine, I’m over here eating popcorn, watching all the drama…..
Luckily I’m not likely to need any laptop, phone, tablet. game console, car, tv, etc any time soon. All my higher end devices are good for a few years until the bubble bursts.
That being said, my hobbies tend to be in low end devices. We know raspberry pi’s are now expensive and likely to get worse, but I wonder how it will effect the tiny bit of old technology memory in things like “smart switches” and sensors
My Pixel 6 Pro is about to lose software support even though it functions perfectly fine, and GrapheneOS has the idiotic logic of "sending software updates for unsupported phones is bad security so it's better to not send any software updates at all and make it even more unsupported". Either way I can't really afford a new one (and don't really want to buy one anyways with Google's recent Android fuckery) so I guess I'll just stick with a phone with abandoned software for a while.
LineageOS goes all the way to version 23 (Android 16) if you're willing to switch
We said that a few times, first it was the harddisk factories flooded in Thailand IIRC, then it was GPUs for crypto, now it's this shit. Not much bursting, more like a chain of bubbles.
Imagine if the crypto GPU shit was actually AI all along. After all a Google employee got fired for saying they made a sentient AI a while back before the AI hype. Although there has been a lot of crypto shit happening too so probably both.