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Honestly, I can’t say that I fully understand economics at scale, but I guess that when a buyer big enough goes to a manufacturer and books a big chunk of their capacity for a year or two ahead, the manufacturer has to take that deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a lot of off-the-books arrangements along with that. It sounds logical, but yeah, feels big time unfair to the end user.

I hate myself for not upgrading before the shortage. I was like “yeah, I can do another year or two with what I have”, partly not wanting to buy new things just because, partly cautious of the AM5 motherboard/CPU failures here and there. It’s wild to think that less than 500 EUR/USD used to buy a 96 gig memory kit.

Yeah, but what led to that shortage, jackass?

Wow, that quote is pure gold.

I don’t care about LLM welfare, but I do mind needlessly wasting energy like this.

That’s just an excuse. Yes, a waterproof phone is easier to manufacture if it has less holes, but in practice only around half of the phones are waterproof, and even those that are are rated at like 1 m / 30 minutes max.