Marcus "MajorLinux" SummersYet another casualty to GenAI.
After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
#Crucial #RAM #Consumers #Micron #Hardware #Memory #AI #Tech
Kim Perales"US employers made🚨71,321 new layoff announcements in Nov, officially bringing the 2025 total up to🚨 1.17M #layoffs.
This now marks the🚨FIRST year with 1.1+M job cuts since the pandemic lockdowns in 2020.
🚨American #consumers are in trouble."
-Kobeissi L
"Labor market signals are getting softer.
• Challenger, Gray & Christmas: layoffs eased from Oct’s surge but still the highest for any Nov in 3 years
• YTD hiring plans🚨are the lowest since 2010."
-T Trading
#Economy #Recession #Jobs #USPol
Kevin Karhan 
@betelgeuse93 @itsfoss OFC the main benefit of a #Pi5 with 1GB isn't for #consumers but #industrial customers.
- #Broadcom uses @RaspberryPi / #RaspberryPi as a "#GatewayDrug" to ease #embedded systems designers/integrators into #ARM / #ARM64 systems and get those big enough to want something custom to contact Broadcom.
Also in many systems like #automation, 1GB is more than sufficient (Given that @OS1337 can run on 32 MB RAM in a VM) it's safe to assume the $5 in shave without MOQ is worth it for most buyers who want the extra compute power and I/O compared to a #Pi0W / #Pi0W2 or #Pi3B+ ...
"ADP unemp report shows🚨-32,000 #jobs lost in Nov (worst since Mar 2023).
Most INDs🚨were doing layoffs. The only ones still are hiring are hospitality & healthcare.
But look at employment by firm size. There's a K-shaped #economy among firms, too. Larger companies are still hiring.🚨Smaller firms (<50 wkrs) are doing the layoffs.🚨It's been a very tough year for small biz due to #tariffs & more selective spending from lower & middle-class #consumers."
-H Long
#Recession #Unemployment #USPol
@dyckron the only way to make this works is for #Consumers to refuse to buy until prices fall below the expected price trajectory before supply got artifically shrunken by suppliers and mass buyers!
RAM: WTF?
The #tech🚨allows sellers of any prod that uses the internet to take adv of #SurveillanceCapitalism to personalize prices & chg more than the mkt price that'd be produced by ord supply & demand *another case of monopoly pricing power, facil by invasive tech.
When Amazon uses its deep K of consumer prefs to rig mkts & undermine comps, higher prices: passed along. When #consumers: prohibited from repairing: car/iPhone... invites monopoly profits.
#Economy #Inflation #USPol
https://prospect.org/2025/12/01/sources-of-americas-hidden-inflation/
WINGS_radio#Apple Accused Of Cloaking #Conflict Minerals From Customers
Apple #tricks #consumers into believing that it responsibly sources the #key #minerals used in its #phones, #computers and other tech #products, when in reality it sources #cobalt and #coltan from companies that commit human and labor #rights #abuses, International Rights Advocates alleges in a lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. [via Law360] #abuse
Apple #tricks #consumers into believing that it responsibly sources the #key #minerals used in its #phones, #computers and other tech #products, when in reality it sources #cobalt and #coltan from companies that commit human and labor #rights #abuses, International Rights Advocates alleges in a lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. [via Law360] #abuse
“My kids don’t even lie that often.”
-J Wolfers
The economist clarified Trump’s stk mkt brags, ack: US stocks are up but “they’re up even more everywhere else.”
It's "quite striking just how bad”🚨consumer confidence is now -#consumers say: they’re feeling worse than they were during the Great Recess/pandemic/early ’80s #recession.”
Trump has🚨“fundamentally lost the battle of ideas” on the #economy & a “deep Q as to how long ppl are going to keep spending."
#Lies #UPol
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justin-wolfers-donald-trump-economy_n_692d3e45e4b0c8c3c7ce2e99
China Business Forum#Global #consumers are increasingly #prioritizing #sustainability, #personalization, and #aesthetics in #household #products, driving demand for #eco-friendly and well-designed #items. At Phase 2 of the 138th #CantonFair in #Guangzhou, #exhibitors in the Household Items section are #demonstrating how #Chinese #manufacturers are #adapting to these trends with #innovations that combine #environmental #responsibility and #modern #design. https://cnbusinessforum.com/canton-fair-exhibitors-showcase-sustainable-design-driven-household-innovations/
Aurianne Or#Perceived degree of #food #processing as a cue for perceived #healthiness: The #NOVA system mirrors #consumers’ #perceptions - #ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950329323001386?via%3Dihubhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950329323001386?via%3Dihub