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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Optical drives next I guess lol

What's even going on anymore

[–] ArfArfWoof@feddit.org 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I read news of SATA SSDs spiking in price just a few hours ago. Gonna go to sleep now, expecting a spike in floppy disk prices when I wake up and punch cards tomorrow evening.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Didn't Samsung say that they weren't making consumer Sata ssds anymore? Jfc we really are going to the whole "you own nothing".

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago

Unless they use IP to prevent new producers from entering the market, there should be a response eventually.

HDDs are precision machinery, of course, but not lost alien technology only old big companies can make.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

No I believe micron was RAM jskillz

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Enshittification, but on a massive scale.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

resulting in cheapflation, and shrinkflation eventually.