Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

Use different SBCs. I swear by the ODROID lines by Hardkernel. They've made rock-solid products for years, produce designs intended to use as many off-the-shelf and easy-sourced components as possible to ensure they can be produced reliably for 5-10 years at a minimum (they've only ever discontinued one board because of this retarded chip shortage and they immediately rolled out a new design with near-identical specs using a different chip). Plus they're cheap. Not as cheap as RPi's of course, but the specs are better (along with the connectivity).

Think $90 for this beast: a 2 GHz 4-core Cortex-A55 (64-bit) SBC with 8GB of RAM, M.2 and EMMC sockets, SATA port (native, not a USB bridge), gigabit ethernet, HDMI, 2x USB 2 ports, 2x USB 3 ports, MicroSD slot (with bootloader support for all types -- SATA, M.2, EMMC, MicroSD, USB, netboot), 40 GPIO pins, 16MB SPI flash, IR receiver, RTC battery support and a UART port. The bootloader they use for most of their boards now is even smart enough to perform no-media installs over the network, right out of the box. Thing's a fucking beast. They make cheaper boards too.

They're active on their forums, encourage hacking every bit as much as the RPi folks do (my mention of Hardkernel/ODROID is not meant as a knock on RPi at all -- they're damned good too), provide detailed high- and low-level documentation and source code wherever possible, help people on-forum and even one-on-one to troubleshoot and brew up unique use cases for all their products, and thankfully have a fairly sizeable community. Linux support is very strong, binary blobs are minimal-to-nonexistent depending on chipset, and some models have e.g. Armbian flavors that are directly built and optimized for them.

They're also one of the few hardware vendors I've ever come across who are often cheaper to order from (even with int'l shipping added) than the regional resellers who try to middle-man them. Lookin' at you, fuckin' AmeriDroid.

I could not agree more! I have been using ODROID boards for a few years now and they are amazing. The support from Hardkernel is fantastic, and the community is very helpful. The specs on their boards are incredible, and the price point is unbeatable. I would highly recommend anyone looking for a powerful single board computer to check out the ODROID line of products.

 

[tehpope]

Hardkernel is great. Odroids are great. The N2+ is really nice. Still the best bang for the buck SBC today. Even with the RK5588 or whatever chips getting released.

 

[updoot farmer]

Front + rear on a Ninja 650, a basic middle-of-the-road bike: $418 from Revzilla, plus let's say $100 in mounting and balancing charges assuming you do all your own work to remove and reinstall them yourself. Let's assume you are driving the average of 20k miles per year.

Considering the Ninja 650 is a closer to mid-90s superbike territory these days, than it is to a 1980s 700 4 banger that was lopey and a commuter bike, I sort of lol at your gas mileage numbers there. Hell my Katana gets, 50-60mpg if I don't gun it like an absolute twat, and my nc700 is constantly in the 70+mpg territory.

Also for the love of god, buy touring tires, that shit will last you 20k easy, if you aren't burgerfat. Or be a man and go darkside lol.

 

[Hippopatumus]

Wrong

1995 Ducati 916: 114 Horsepower

1995 Kawasaki GPZ 1100: 130 Horsepower

1995 Triumph Daytona 1200: 147 Horsepower

2022 Ninja 650: 71 Horsepower

It's a fuel-injected parallel-twin mid-range bike, an exceptional choice for a daily commuter, and has a healthy amount of power, but to say it's equivalent to a mid-90s superbike is ridiculous.

Regardless, all bikes are bad choices if you want to save money on running costs, with the exception of a 50cc scooter which will absolutely demolish any motorcycle when it comes to TCO.

 

[K-Hole]

My latest ride:

Shame I never got to take her out on the road.

 

[moocow]

$60 for 7 gallons of syrup? CO2 delivered to your house? The former is probably what, a restaraunt service for fountain drinks? The latter... a local place do that, or is there a place I can get Co2 delivered?

I used to enjoy the Sodastream but once they changed the drink mix (this was YEARS ago) it went from being "cheaper than soda" to "as cheap as soda" and it just wasn't worth it anymore.

Nah, you can easily get the big boxes of syrup from Sam's Club and other warehouse stores. Costco's "regular" warehouses don't sell them but their "Business Centers" do (you can access them just like a regular warehouse, but they're a bigger warehouse for even bigger stuff geared towards businesses instead of consumers). And you can order them online too.

There's all sorts of places to get CO2 cylinders from, ranging from restaurant supply shops to chemical suppliers (and I think someone even mentioned welding suppliers too).

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

SCOTUS didn't do anything with California AB5, so 70,000 owner-operators will no longer be able lease their trucks to trucking companies at the end of the week. New Jersey and Massachusetts are supposedly eyeing similar legislation.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

Regardless, all bikes are bad choices if you want to save money on running costs, with the exception of a 50cc scooter which will absolutely demolish any motorcycle when it comes to TCO.

If you don't mind looking like a faggot riding one.

 

[FatalTater]

How is it that so many common household items are hard to find but everyone in America (at least my side of town) has not only found enough fireworks to blow God out of the sky but can afford to buy massive quantities of them?
All week it's been like living inside a pan of Jiffy Pop, and I shudder to think what tonight will bring.
Who is paying for all this?

 

[Puff]

How is it that so many common household items are hard to find but everyone in America (at least my side of town) has not only found enough fireworks to blow God out of the sky but can afford to buy massive quantities of them?
All week it's been like living inside a pan of Jiffy Pop, and I shudder to think what tonight will bring.
Who is paying for all this?

Someone next to me has been making big disconcerting booms during the daylight. There is no tannerite shortage. Use that info how you will.

 

[Beavis]

I've noticed the soft drink fountains at a lot of convenience stores have been out of order lately.

Someone next to me has been making big disconcerting booms during the daylight. There is no tannerite shortage. Use that info how you will.

Ironically I haven't heard many fireworks going off close to my home the last few days. There's people lighting them a few miles away though.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

How is it that so many common household items are hard to find but everyone in America (at least my side of town) has not only found enough fireworks to blow God out of the sky but can afford to buy massive quantities of them?
All week it's been like living inside a pan of Jiffy Pop, and I shudder to think what tonight will bring.
Who is paying for all this?

Most people don't eat gunpowder, and its exceedingly easy to make domestically with domestically sourced chemicals, so there's almost always a surplus, not a shortage. And luckily for all the neighboring buildings, said fireworks plants have not had a spat of arson and other disasters.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Someone next to me has been making big disconcerting booms during the daylight. There is no tannerite shortage. Use that info how you will.

Rural America, fuck yeah!?

 

[Bonesjones]

I've noticed the soft drink fountains at a lot of convenience stores have been out of order lately.

Ironically I haven't heard many fireworks going off close to my home the last few days. There's people lighting them a few miles away though.

Supposedly there is a CO2 shortage, whether localized or not, I don't know. I was at a restaurant that admitted they were being rationed by their normal fillup company.

 

[Mooger Meng]

Supposedly there is a CO2 shortage, whether localized or not, I don't know. I was at a restaurant that admitted they were being rationed by their normal fillup company.

Now is the time for sweet tea. Gets your caffeine for the day, and you can add flavors in to give it whatever profile you want with minimal effort; you can even do it up so that it gives your 200% of your daily sugar intake per glass, just like you're used to with soda!
The South('s drinks) shall rise again!

 

[Colloid]

Supposedly there is a CO2 shortage, whether localized or not, I don't know. I was at a restaurant that admitted they were being rationed by their normal fillup company.

A big jumpstart for the depression diet before we’re even in an actual depression if that’s really the case. Soda is one of the biggest obesity factors in the US.

 

[888Flux]

I could not agree more! I have been using ODROID boards for a few years now and they are amazing. The support from Hardkernel is fantastic, and the community is very helpful. The specs on their boards are incredible, and the price point is unbeatable. I would highly recommend anyone looking for a powerful single board computer to check out the ODROID line of products.

ODROID and Rock Pi boards are very nice with complete software support but there is still no good alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2. There is the Radxa Zero but it's selling at twice the price point of what it originally was (from $15 to $30 + shipping).

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

ODROID and Rock Pi boards are very nice with complete software support but there is still no good alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2. There is the Radxa Zero but it's selling at twice the price point of what it originally was (from $15 to $30 + shipping).

There are a few alternatives to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2, but they are more expensive. The Radxa Zero is one option, but it's twice the price of what it originally was. Other options include the ODROID and Rock Pi boards, which both have complete software support.

 

[Meat Target]

It's hot today. Fine time for a water main break.

 

[888Flux]

There are a few alternatives to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2, but they are more expensive. The Radxa Zero is one option, but it's twice the price of what it originally was. Other options include the ODROID and Rock Pi boards, which both have complete software support.

Hello GPT-3, also that's not what I'm trying to say here you fucktard.