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Strategically fucking the people.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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It really highlights the fragility and single source/control of the global supply chain.
What the fuck will be after that? copper?! Fucking greedy bastards need to go
Copper has already skyrocketed due to AI.
It all started with the enshittification of copper from Ea-Nasir.
AI-Nasir?
No ea-nasir is correct. That mf fucked it all up. Few millenia ago.
I think you missed the ball toss.
I read it as AL-Nasir at first and was confused.
My train of thought ran over his dogma.
His shitty copper is still legendary.
What is the fucking scarce resource they're claiming now?
According to the news agency, "Iran struck Saudi Arabia's Jubail petrochemical complex in early April, forcing a halt in production of high-purity polyphenylene ether (PPE) resin—a critical base material used to manufacture PCB laminates."
So you're telling me we've been dependent on Saudi for that all this time? Kinda serves the world right, then...
Shame.
It's not the resources, its AI
...I wouldn't be too worried about it. PCBs are made from copper and plastic. I'm not particularly concerned about the economic impact of increased plastic prices.
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You know what? I still have a GBA and a GBC with flashcards and both working perfectly. My newly purchased R36S will do the rest.
I'm gonna retire to the world of roms and romhacks and fuck it. I have more games than I will be able to play in my whole life.
Same, between my Steam Deck and Homebrewed 3DS, I have enough games, indies, roms and romhacks to last me the rest of my life and the life of my children and their children.
My DS passcard died, my GBA linker ran out of battery I think (or broke, because juice it up didn't work) 😓
Do they sell these things any more?
They do, and you don't even need to deal with a linker anymore. R4 cards are cheap, just put a firmware on it that doesn't suck to get rid of the timebombs.
Perfect, I was hoping that electronics would get more expensive.
I was worried that the price spikes were limited to GPU and RAM. I was getting concerned that every other component wouldn't have their turn.
This feels right. Equality for all. I'll never play half life alyx.
If only fucking arbitrary borders defined by pedophiles and enforced by murderers would just fucking disappear already
But without arbitrary divisions, I can't feel more superior than others!!!
Yeah, why doesn't the ME just let the US do whatever they want there?
Concentration of production capacity is why computers are ridiculously cheap in the first place. This comes with drawbacks when people don't stockpile enough of their critical inputs...
Just in time done badly.
Yep, why have vital resources on your own personal machine when you could access everything on Google/Meta/Oracle/Apple/Microslop's AI cloud? For a nominal lifetime fee of course!
How does this relate to my comment?
Prices were already going up and supplies were already constrained because the AI demand was pulling so much of the capacity. Iran hitting the petrochemical plant is just adding on to an already bad situation.
You mean USA fucking up the global supply chain?
That's good, computers are too affordable!
Fuck AI
Not the cause this time
Still a valid sentiment.
"AI, No!" AI: "What?" "Sorry, force of habit"
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Well I'm glad I finally figured out how to make circuit boards at home using a cnc machine.
Oh yeah, I too will be designing and 4D printing my own computer PCB today!
I hope the price of this will be lowering like the rest.
Narrator: "It was not."
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