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US PC shipments fell 7.0% in 1Q26, marking steepest decline since 2023 (omdia.tech.informa.com)
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[โ€“] morto@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The artificial scarcity of components due to the ai craziness is all a plot to make people give up on local computing and use only phones and cloud services for everything /s (I'm afraid that I may not need that /s at all...)

[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

No need for the /s. That's exactly what it is. It's a money grab and a bid for more control and surveillance we cannot dodge.