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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by noahbp on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:00PM (#47372874)
When I lived in Costa Rica, I lost three surge protectors in a year to power surges. During one such power surge, I didn't notice that the red light indicating surge protection was already out, and a power surge fried my (knockoff) Macbook power adapter, leaving me without a way to work for a day.
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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by LorenPechtel on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:41PM (#47382994)
There's no real indicator on those things.

It's a 10 cent component that would require a $10k machine (this is old data) to do a non-destructive test.

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