Post B0tYxZAz8dgZo9b0bY by lispi314@udongein.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #B0sxhFtHNSPp3cfnwu by aparrish@friend.camp
       2025-12-03T21:01:15Z
       
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       you know i'd never stopped to consider how annoying tulip mania must have been for folks who just wanted to grow a few pretty flowers in their front garden https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/
       
 (DIR) Post #B0tVJWJE4xoHTCfCBE by reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden
       2025-12-03T22:58:08.964007Z
       
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       @aparrish I mean, we already saw this with cryptocurrency mining and GPUs
       
 (DIR) Post #B0tVJXQhudO8whAgTo by lispi314@udongein.xyz
       2025-12-04T02:08:35.492640Z
       
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       @reiddragon @aparrish Eagerly awaiting for the AI crash.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0tVJYLmUR2fnhsGRM by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
       2025-12-04T04:52:54.803790Z
       
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       You ready for your tax dollars to bail out the silicon industry 2008 style?
       
 (DIR) Post #B0tViRStE6YHga4EF6 by lispi314@udongein.xyz
       2025-12-04T04:54:10.925638Z
       
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       @djsumdog @reiddragon @aparrish Mostly not mine directly, but that's pretty much going to happen because we collectively stupidly let silicon manufacture concentrate into a few foreign companies, nevermind how that creates major risks should they be destroyed in some way or other.While I will admit that every-nation autarky would be impractical for computer manufacture, it would very much be possible to decentralize it more.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0tViSqK6StHxY2SPI by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
       2025-12-04T04:57:27.481722Z
       
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       Yea it's a similar situation with memory as with Silicon. Samsung, Intel and TSMC (with TSMC dominating) own the silicon space. All of them  depend on the Dutch company ASML for their UV Lithography machines, who depends on Zeiss in Germany for all their glass lenses ... all of whom depend on one glass/quartz mine in the Eastern US that refines quartz pure enough to use in silicon fabs.It's an insane house of cards.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0tYxZAz8dgZo9b0bY by lispi314@udongein.xyz
       2025-12-04T05:30:06.559228Z
       
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       @djsumdog @reiddragon @aparrish Regarding the refining, at least it *can* be done with other sources. Just at considerable cost.Nevertheless the difficulties in refining make me question whether we really should be focusing so much on silicon computing.