Comment on The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator

• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you buy now you can still brag about missing the next price increase when South Korea runs out of helium for chip production in 2 weeks.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gee I wonder who else has a lot of tappable helium- ah, right. russia.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Russians aren’t brown skinned people tho. We almost exclusively bomb brown skin people.

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      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We do, but what I mean is this is yet another way Russia will benefit from the pedo-war. Oil goes up, they become a critical supplier of helium, they’ll make shitloads of billions to try and prop their own war machine back up. One big huge giant present to Putin, one dictator to another.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve

    The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, was a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg)[a] of helium gas.

    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) transferred the reserve to the General Services Administration (GSA) as surplus property, but a 2022 auction[10] failed to finalize a sale.[11] On June 22, 2023, the GSA announced a new auction of the facilities and remaining helium.[12] The auction of the last helium assets was due to take place in November, 2023.[13] Though the last of the Cliffside reserve was to be sold by November 2023, more natural gas was discovered at the site than was previously known, and the Bureau of Land Management extended the auction to January 25, 2024 to allow for increased bids.[14] In 2024 the remaining reserve was sold to the highest bidder, Messer Group.[15]

    Arguably not the best timing on that.

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• Pulsar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me too, I was waiting for a good deal in a GMKtec EVO-X2, but that is not going to happen.

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