This is the exact same reason that I also cancelled my Paypal account.

Would mod up if I had points. Ground planes are continuous for a bunch of really good reasons, putting a bazillion slots into them defeats most of them.

Popular science's domain is "popsci.com". Store domain in link is "pop-sci.com" Deal is too good to be true. Can you say phishing scam?

Cave Johnson here. If you're having trouble standing up out of your chair, don't worry, we just injected the smoothee that you drank 15 minutes ago with a TON of miniaturized magnets. We're looking for some amazing medicinal results here, curing cancer, that kind of thing. Anyways, only the seat is metallic on your chair, you can just slide forward until you can pry yourself off.

The Radio Shack that exists now is almost nothing like the store you are remembering.

Nobody objects that they're doing this. They object that they're doing this, then selling the parts as "new" instead of "used", or changing the markings on the chip so that it seems to be a better (aka more expensive version) of the chip which it was never binned as.

Even most FPGA's are out of stock at the moment. Only a handful of manufacturers have something available to buy, and while VHDL/Verilog is portable between different chip makers, its still a nontrivial effort to pivot to an IC from another manufacturer.

I work in the automotive industry. The "chip shortage" is very, very real and absolutely not a thing made up by the car makers. Even throwing money at the problem doesn't help, the supply simply doesn't exist.

"No ads" is the reason why Netflix has my subscription, and it is the ONLY streaming service which has my money (or that I even watch). Every time I go over to my parent's house, my mother always has the TV on (even if she's doing something else) and I'm just numbed by the sheer quantity of ads (it seems to be approaching 40% of total air time) trying to sell drug X or whatever. If you watch 10 hours of cable TV each week your effectively taking 4 hours of your week and throwing it away. You could be doing almost ANYTHING else with that 4 hours, a hobby, reading up on things, cleaning the house, whatever. If they introduced ads there is about a 100% chance I would cancel and opt out of streaming altogether. I have other things to do.

There's a 30% probability that the quantum mechanic is showing up for work today. Otherwise, he isn't.

Same here. Any correctly designed memory controller will periodically tell the DRAMs to run an autorefresh cycle, which effectively recharges the capacitance in each row of memory. If laptops are cutting back on the DRAM refresh rates/voltages AND also allowing full speed memory access (thus violating RAM specs), Rowhammer is the least of your problems - you need a new laptop.

Also, let's see that track record of 16nm IC's that have 40V tolerant I/O's. Oh wait, the silence is deafening.

Matte NOT AT ALL as long as businesses continue to pay the ransoms and the promise of millions of dollars of ill-gotten rewards is real.

Indiscriminately throwing money at a problem and hoping it goes away probably won't work on this particular problem.

True ROMS use an at-the-wafer masking process which takes many weeks, even when we aren't in the middle of a global chip shortage. This kind of thing also has large NRE costs associated with it. Who is going to bear the cost of a million dollars to spin up the fab and spit out the ROMS? In the old days, they could divide that cost among every person buying their motherboard. But what you're talking about is a customer-specific implementation. And that cost has to be paid EVERY time you change the code.