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Global Chip Shortage Threatens Production of Laptops, Smartphones and More
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Chip Shortage Leads Carmaker Opel To Shut German Plant Until 2022 - Slashdot
Carmaker Opel, which is part of the Stellantis group, said on Thursday it will close one of its plants in Germany until at least the end of the year due to chip shortages. Reuters reports: Production at the Eisenach plant, which makes internal combustion engine and hybrid electric cars, should...
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China orders energy firms to secure winter fuel supplies at all costs
Order may have knock-on effects for UK gas bills as second-biggest economy grapples with power cuts
China orders energy firms to secure winter fuel supplies at all costs
Order may have knock-on effects for UK gas bills as second-biggest economy grapples with power cutswww.theguardian.com
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We are witnessing a major shift (or a major sh*t).
After years being educated to be mass consumers, we will be deprived of anything, even our Liberty.
After years being educated to be mass consumers, we will be deprived of anything, even our Liberty.
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I've stopped being a mass consumer of plastic tat a few years ago now. It mainly coincided with my decision not to use amazon for anything I could get elsewhere, even if it cost slightly more, and nowadays I haven't bought anything from amazon for over a year.
Edit: It's not affected my liberty. I'm still able to walk where I want, even if sometimes others don't want me there, and I can still read all of the books I've got in my collection.
Edit: It's not affected my liberty. I'm still able to walk where I want, even if sometimes others don't want me there, and I can still read all of the books I've got in my collection.
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Chip Shortage Makes GM Scrap Its Hands-Free Highway Driving Feature - Slashdot
"Like a half-filled bag of salty snacks, there simply aren't enough semiconductor chips to go around these days," writes CNET. "At General Motors, the crisis struck one of its biggest cash cows as Cadillac confirmed too few chips led it to scrap the Super Cruise [hands-free highway driving]...
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Why Chip-Constrained Carmakers Can't Just Transition To Newer Chips - Slashdot
Car buyers are discovering that supply chain constraints "have thrusted prices upwards considerably for new and used vehicles alike," notes Jalopnik. But while last month Fortune ran an article headlined "Chipmakers to carmakers: Time to get out of the semiconductor Stone Age," Jalopnik argues...
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This one is nice: Too much energy consumption. Regulations makes chip producers slow down their production.
And blackouts... intentional or not.
So: Production crisis, energy crisis, food crisis, health crisis, sand crisis, affordable living crisis, clean water crisis... pick 8.
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Not chip shortage per se but interesting what we might expect to come of the impending copper shortage: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/30/the...e-aluminum-or-carbon-nanotubes-to-the-rescue/
Luckily we don't need faster computers or higher res 8k screens or 6G or foldable smartphones or whatever to enjoy our life.
Todays computers and cars are good enough for an average person to live high live they could not have imagined 20 years ago.
Take GPUs as an example.
All I target is 1080p 60 fps.
There is simply no need for me to go beyond that and buy a 3080.
I can get pretty much any GPU produced in the last 5 years to give me all I want.
Sure, 1 or 2 generations of GPD Win and Pyra SoCs would be great.
However if it won't happen I already have anything I need.
(more SSD density would be nice ...)
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Not really.
There are security vulnerabilities, and some of them are pretty dangerous and exploitable by many actors, especially now that criminal organisations have added hacking/ransomware to their portfolio.
Software providers don't need to use FUD to get users to get the latest code: they just have to add an auto-update feature and enable it by default.
Sand shortage (which we already knew for making concrete). It's "the sun", so take the article with a grain of, uh, sand:
www.thesun.co.uk
no, there is no recycling, never heard of that. Also: the glass protector for your phone, that type of glass.
www.mining-technology.com
Although investors can not leach as much as they used to (22% back to 4% of ROI):
www.mining.com
I also rather breath in copper than carbon nanotubes (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29506458/). It's like asbestos... just another kind of worse... let's use them in toys! yay!
World running out of SAND and there may not be enough for Covid jab vial
SAND is running out across the world amid fears there may not be enough to make two billion Covid jab glass vials, experts warn. Before the pandemic, there was already a shortage of sand whic…
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no, there is no recycling, never heard of that. Also: the glass protector for your phone, that type of glass.
Post automatically merged:
If the software worked as the post office: Your software update will start between 6:00 am and 18:00 pm keep your laptop on. You need to be home. We will reboot a few times to complete the process.
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Not for a few years though:
Five largest copper mines in Chile in 2020
Here are the five largest copper mines by production in Chile, according to GlobalData’s mining database.
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Although investors can not leach as much as they used to (22% back to 4% of ROI):
Royalties reform could dampen investors’ appetite for Chile’s copper sector – report
Wood Mackenzie sees little near-term impact, but warns of long-term risk.
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I also rather breath in copper than carbon nanotubes (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29506458/). It's like asbestos... just another kind of worse... let's use them in toys! yay!
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levi
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Note that sun report is from March this year. Back then we did have a supply problem in getting the right vials to the right places in time.
In answer to your question, the report does state however:
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Fair though it being the #TotalEclipseOfTheSun, I would need quite a bit of confirmation before believing their usual nonsense...
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@levi already replied to this.
Start with the United Nations Report from a few years ago:
Rising demand for sand calls for resource governance
New report explores sustainability challenges in sand extraction and consumption The Fourth UN Environment Assembly adopted a resolution on mineral resource governance Report aims to initiate a productive global conversation on sand extraction
Then:
Sand theft - Wikipedia
If you are not convinced, then economy reports:
Sand Shortage 2021: Is The World Running Out of Sand? - Built | The Bluebeam Blog
A two-year-old United Nations report warned that the world needed to act to maintain its reserves of sand, with supplies already under pressure from extensive building programs. As construction activity continues after COVID-19, is the industry likely to see a shortage of one of the most...
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Sand Forecast to be in Short Supply as Mineral-Intensive Construction Projects Quickly Pile Up
Sand, a key raw material utilized in infrastructure, energy, and construction projects, is forecast to soon be in short supply. Demand for the critical commodity has tripled in the 21st century, and unsustainable mining efforts in unregulated portions of the industry are projected to damage the...
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There are large african coastal areas where they just took the whole beach... miles and miles of beach.... gone. Not pointing fingers, because I have no proof, but most likely: China, Singapore (people that sold the sand to these countries).
My computer continuously asks me to update everything. It's not primarily about security fixes. No way. I'd take it further and say the new features probably introduce more vulnerabilities than are patched. Almost certainly.
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Looks like it’s still in the prototype/seeking regulatory approval stages but https://www.youfab.info/2018/winners/finite@levi already replied to this.
Start with the United Nations Report from a few years ago:
Rising demand for sand calls for resource governance
New report explores sustainability challenges in sand extraction and consumption The Fourth UN Environment Assembly adopted a resolution on mineral resource governance Report aims to initiate a productive global conversation on sand extractionwww.unep.org
Then:
Sand theft - Wikipedia
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If you are not convinced, then economy reports:
Sand Shortage 2021: Is The World Running Out of Sand? - Built | The Bluebeam Blog
A two-year-old United Nations report warned that the world needed to act to maintain its reserves of sand, with supplies already under pressure from extensive building programs. As construction activity continues after COVID-19, is the industry likely to see a shortage of one of the most...Sand Forecast to be in Short Supply as Mineral-Intensive Construction Projects Quickly Pile Up
Sand, a key raw material utilized in infrastructure, energy, and construction projects, is forecast to soon be in short supply. Demand for the critical commodity has tripled in the 21st century, and unsustainable mining efforts in unregulated portions of the industry are projected to damage the...mcalindenresearchpartners.com
There are large african coastal areas where they just took the whole beach... miles and miles of beach.... gone. Not pointing fingers, because I have no proof, but most likely: China, Singapore (people that sold the sand to these countries).
"99 little bugs in the code" (programming joke)
The song "99 Bottles of Beer" goes: 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer.Take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer…
@Phyla And while unregulated, "they" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make out like a bandit
