jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agoYour phones and computers rely on this remote North Carolina mine. Helene just walloped it.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down114
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 · 1 month agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s a quartz mine, your current phone won’t just die. Calm down.
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month 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-up8·1 month agoFair, I just woke up and was very annoyed at the clickbait title. I guess I was wrong
minus-squaregeekwithsoul@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoYou weren’t wrong - title is clickbait-y as hell.
It’s a quartz mine, your current phone won’t just die.
Calm down.
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.