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I came here to say exactly that. There is still plenty of hardware work being done in sv, but maybe the manufacture is in China.

• cr0sh 10y ago
  The "bad" part is that the raw materials for innovation aren't as easily source-able here in the States. While it can still be found to an extent, the abundance of surplus electronics is nowhere near what it used to be; things started to go downhill fast after about the mid-1990s - but it really started much earlier. Today, you can get cheap new electronics (and other parts) from China and other sources, and there is still some surplus available - but no one can deny that it is anything like it was (and for Chinese sourced components, you may have to wait a while to get them - heck, I just recently received some parts I ordered on AliExpress back in December - and it wasn't the vendor's fault - it was stuck in customs in China for some reason). It's frustrating from the standpoint of innovation and experimentation (not to mention learning on a budget), but there isn't anything that can be done about it (and maybe we shouldn't do anything about it, either)...