As others mentioned, unfortunately the last bill allowed for some large loopholes and emboldened underground growers (also due to more lax state laws) to grow and flood the market with sub-par or even poisonous product. It’d a billion dollar market that state actors and cartels alike are using to launder money (and ruin lives). Very informative video on this: https://youtu.be/3qC4c-zNxTg?si=oy4ab6kuo27fJqcx
Great summary of what's going on from Saager on Breaking Points. You can search for "Fauci CAUGHT Funding Lab Leak Research, Culprit AGAIN" on YT or direct link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEEjeG6Xls
For those who only need a few boards, rpilocator has been a great resource. Adafruit typically releases a handful every week on Wednesday I believe. (Check out rpilocator's Twitter feed as they typically give folks a heads up before the Adafruit drop: @rpilocator) They do limit 1 per customer per month though..
Also backordered a 4GB version on Digikey and it came through only a week later. (Good timing on my part I guess!)
It took a few months to get to this point so patience is the name of the game for sure until the market cools off a bit.
https://bastillebsd.org is a great tool if you want to deploy tiny container-like Jails on FreeBSD. I've been using it in production for a while and it's been a great tool.
Wow. Looks like he learned his lesson. On the other hand, we American consumers haven't.
I'll echo what most have said here already: the moment this crisis is over, we'll be overseas trying to find the cheapest possible price. We don't care about keeping the local guy in business. We care about our margins.
I'd hate to say it but what made us great, could very well be our downfall...