jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 hours agoYour phones and computers rely on this remote North Carolina mine. Helene just walloped it.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down111
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkYour phones and computers rely on this remote North Carolina mine. Helene just walloped it.www.motherjones.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 hours agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·8 hours ago By some estimates, Spruce Pine accounted for 70 percent of the high-purity quartz needed to produce the pure silicon used to make most advanced chips I don’t think anyone was thinking a mine’s slowdown would kill their current phone lol
minus-squarestoylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 hours agoFair, I just woke up and was very annoyed at the clickbait title. I guess I was wrong
minus-squaregeekwithsoul@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 hours agoYou weren’t wrong - title is clickbait-y as hell.
I don’t think anyone was thinking a mine’s slowdown would kill their current phone lol
Fair, I just woke up and was very annoyed at the clickbait title.
I guess I was wrong
You weren’t wrong - title is clickbait-y as hell.