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byDripdry ( 1062282 ) writes:
The pcie riser I have on order from China was supposed to be on the way... Wonder how that will turn out.
Well, no homelab for anybody now!
byvilain ( 127070 ) writes:
Yep. I've got a chassis from AliExpress that just shipped today. When and if it arrives is anyone's guess. Last couple of things I bought from there were delivered by a courier rather than USPS. Amazon's costs are surely going up. I wonder what their head of Logistics is doing right now.
byArmoredDragon ( 3450605 ) writes:
Probably finding a new source for all of the counterfeit and substandard crap. E.g. fuses that allow more current than they're supposed to, connectors that don't crimp right and fall apart, gas sensors that only pretend to work, etc. I mostly stopped buying from Amazon because of that shit, I couldn't care less what happens to them.
byArchieBunker ( 132337 ) writes:
What you described is pure capitalism. People voted with their wallets to buy the cheapest items available.
bykarmawarrior ( 311177 ) writes:
LMFTFY: What he described is pure capitalism. American corporations voted with their wallets in the 1980s and 1990s and outsourced manufacturing to the cheapest country.
"People" were never given a choice, we could either have affordable goods, we could in some cases have expensive goods we could barely afford, or we could have nothing at all, because American manufacturing barely exists and isn't a choice when it comes to clothing or electronics.
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bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
American manufacturing is huge, but American manufacturing of durable consumer goods has contracted bigly, and is very small. We were only very recently surpassed in manufacture of heavy equipment by China. But the stuff that winds up in retail stores is a whole other story which fits your description very well...
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