United States | News & Politics

9130 readers

149 users here now

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

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. (infosec.exchange)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 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 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 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?!

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

we'll reach levels of grass touching previously thought impossible