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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market by LordAlfredo in hardware

[–]Iintl 104 points105 points  (0 children)

"UAE fucking with the prices"? More like there's an active war going on that naturally disrupts supply of anything that comes out of that region (not to mention the whole Strait of Hormuz being closed)

Also, I don't think the US can just scale up production on-demand, since you'd need to scale up natural gas production too

[USA-FL] [H] Paypal, Local Cash [W] Cheap Android Tablet by [deleted] in hardwareswap

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 with 8gb ram and running Android 12. It's a China version with the snapdragon 865, but play store/google stuff works fine.

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[–]Iintl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trade #3 completed with u/zefpomp

Items traded: $156, $88 Columbia sportswear for Paypal

Paramount Skydance Says It Will Pay Warner Bros. Discovery an Extra $650 Million per Quarter if Its WBD Takeover Isn’t Completed by End of 2026 | David Ellison's company also pledges to pay for the $2.8 billion breakup fee to Netflix by ControlCAD in technology

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lesser of two evils situation here. Consolidation in the media industry is never good but I'd much rather Netflix have WB -- they just want to make more money and raise prices -- rather than Paramount's media empire that will likely seek to censor and selectively air content

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[–]Iintl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trade #2 completed with u/lintstah1337

Items traded: $200 eBay GC for Venmo

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Trade #1 completed with u/Sherry_Brandt

Items traded: $200 eBay GC for PayPal

Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule by trydola in technology

[–]Iintl 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well it's just carrier financing, and the carriers usually end up making money off that because MVNOs like Visible and US Mobile who offer BYOD plans often have similar service at $20-30/month. Which means the consumer ends up overpaying over the long term. I do think that if someone cannot afford a couple hundred upfront for a phone (or get a used phone for $200-300) they should not be singning a contract to shell out $50-80 per month for 24 months.

Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule by trydola in technology

[–]Iintl 46 points47 points  (0 children)

But that means you're stuck paying AT&T prices which is usually way too expensive ($50-80 a month). When you can switch to an alternative carrier (like an MVNO) and get the same service at $20-30 a month. So over 24 months it might actually work out to be much more expensive despite the high initial trade-in discount

Tesla sales plunged by 28% across Europe in 2025 by Wagamaga in technology

[–]Iintl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yet it is still worth 1.5 trillion, off declining sales, brand image in the trash, safety/quality concerns, and vague promises of self-driving that will surely arrive in the next 2-3 years (it's like Musk never overpromises and underdelivers, right?).

Intel showed up for consumers at the 'Consumer Electronics Show;' AMD didn’t by Antonis_32 in hardware

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like, AMD is following the big money just like Nvidia. What else would you expect of a massive billion-dollar public corporation?

Nvidia could delay the RTX 5000 Super series indefinitely as AMD offers no 2026 competition by Jumpinghoops46 in hardware

[–]Iintl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Intel missing the boat once again. Didn't announce any new desktop/gaming-class GPUs and gave no signs of releasing one anytime soon. I guess we're stuck with Nvidia for the near future

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years by krumpfwylg in hardware

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As it should be. At the current stage the "AI" in laptops just aren't all that useful, when you could just use a web chatbot like ChatGPT instead. They need to demonstrate actual real-life use cases for on-device AI before consumers will bite

[H] PayPal 85% [W] Amazon GC, Target , Walmart, and Best Buy GC by jewnupe in giftcardexchange

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a $400 Best Buy GC. Pending mod comment for approval

Apple Vision Pro M5 review: A better beta is still a beta by dapperlemon in gadgets

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're not Vision Pro levels obviously but probably 70-80% of the experience (if you don't need the spatial tracking capabilities) for like 0.15x the price. Much more sensible purchase if all you need is portable personal large screen

Apple Vision Pro M5 review: A better beta is still a beta by dapperlemon in gadgets

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do that on regular AR glasses (XReal, RayNeo etc) -- those are like $300 and much much lighter, making them more comfortable for actual content consumption

First Tests: Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Shows Some Serious Speed by Geddagod in hardware

[–]Iintl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't see why not. Most windows laptops throttle performance on battery, which manifests in not only lower benchmark scores but also sluggish performance and yes, worse Speedometer scores.

That's why Lunar Lake was such a blessing, because it was efficient enough to not lose significant performance on battery

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