jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 days agoYour phones and computers rely on this remote North Carolina mine. Helene just walloped it.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down113
arrow-up1-2arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days 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-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoFair, I just woke up and was very annoyed at the clickbait title. I guess I was wrong
minus-squaregeekwithsoul@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days 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.