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Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital (mashable.com)
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[-] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 1 points 12 hours ago

Ahh, I somehow missed that, my bad. I'd never even heard of that one holy shit

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

They claimed that it was a more eco friendly coin, as it didn't use GPU (and thereby not much electricity) but instead it caused harddrive prices to jump, due to excessive wear on drives. May for saving electricity, and instead causing a fuckton of e-waste, I guess.

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