7946

I didn’t notice a link to any article and don’t need to read one anyway. I lived through it and remember clearly. I’m not going senile.

7947

No no. Do continue with how you had no problems buying RAM when there were factory issues with HDDs. That’s about as much attention as I thought you were paying to other people talking about this.

7948

RAM was easily available during the shortages, it was just much more expensive. The hard drive thing was a completely separate issue several years beforehand, but with the same result-- prices went up.

7949

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7950

Yeah the HDD thing, HDDs were available, even if you had to go alternative sourcing for them (i.e. shucking drives from those packaged as external/portable hard drives), and suffer from quality issues of much higher failure rates

7951

I dunno, I’ve used shucked drives in my NAS for years. Had lots of problems with Seagates but WDs worked great.

7952

I expect prices to normalize right after I buy an overpriced card.

7953

And you can purchased graphic cards you don’t want at alternative sources now.

There were sourcing problems for a long time due to these natural events so yeah, not the first time. Is this the first time we’ve had a global pandemic interrupting this along with, I don’t know, a ton of other things… well yeah but it’s not as if it’s the first time gamers have to scrape by for a little bit. I am sure during the next pandemic when I don’t know what topic we’re talking about and didn’t read the article brings it up, we can talk about this one right alongside never seeing TP being so unobtainable that old laundry became a thing, and hand-sanitizer in such short supply the liquor market started making and then came the flood toxic stuff that had to be pulled off the shelf. So yeah, along side all of that, we have some supply issues with gaming component… again, like we did when other natural disaster disrupted suppliers.

7954

Wait, you wiped your ass with old laundry?

7955

Have you been sleeping through this pandemic? You didn’t see all those articles telling people to stop flushing their shirts and clogging up the sewage systems?

7956

I definitely missed those articles. Jesus.

7957

That’s it. You’re losing your telling the tale of what you lived through ten years ago card. You’re not even telling it right right now!

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7958

I fondly remember an article in a major news site here in Australia March of last year which was titled “10 substitutes to toilet paper”, with one being rock. Apparently if you can find a rock that is sufficiently smooth it works quite well.

7959

Hopefully they reminded people not to flush rocks down their toilets.

But yes, along with not being able to find toilet paper for weeks leading to unwise people flushing random things down toilets or using… rocks as TP, nurses wearing garbage bags because PPE suppliers can’t keep up with worldwide demand, 3d printing ventilator valves because those aren’t available either, bottled water flying off the shelves despite there not being a darn thing wrong with tap water, toxic hand-sanitizer being added to and removed from shelves, a couple of places being slammed leading to some arrests for price gauging we can add… the new supply of video cards couldn’t keep up with demand, especially with bots running all over the place to unload them at double which I guess doesn’t make it any worse for a select few who experienced the old RAM and HDD shortages of yesteryears. Because if you want to pay 2x the cost you can probably get one just fine from… alternative sources.

7960

Where’s the Sears catalog when we need it?

7961

The run on toilet paper makes me want to install a bidet in the toilet. If only I could install appliances like in The Sims, with a mouse click.

7962

They’re incredibly easy to install, especially the basic ones (read the ones that don’t heat). The only real risk with those is the old hose tends to leak so if your kit doesn’t come with one, get a a new hose. They’re basically just a new seat and a couple of valves. It’s harder getting up off the floor after installing it than it is to install it.

7963

It was just s matter of time before this thread turned to shit.

7964

The warm water ones require an electric socket (none in my toilet), or connection to hot water supply (i.e. major work). Out of the question for me. T_T

7965

Yep, I was going to get a full-on japanese toilet installed, but it would require rewiring my bathroom.