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Are we the last generation of PC builders? ASUS shipping 5M fewer motherboards, ASRock down 30%, and the chipmakers don't care because AI servers pay better. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

O7

We will deal with old hardware on clandestine black markets running from matabots & exchanging USB drives with foss software, dank memes, & old games ...

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Gonna have to be an entire market replacing SMT, capacitors, etc. These mobo’s parts don’t last forever.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Better than massive piles of e-waste.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago

Actually smol lithography chips degrade quite fast with use, the current ones might not survive decades (CPUs, GPUs, SSDs).

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