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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 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Better than massive piles of e-waste.