About as catastrophic as the NFT bubble bursting, I'd guess. We'd all be better off without people burning a plane ride's worth of energy to answer a question that you could do with a single grep command.

There is absolutely no practical use for any of this.

I have a feeling it wont affect canadian non-business individuals much: I see retailers listing prices of $6000 for the max395 type computers, none in stock. Direct from minisforum has one listed for $3200... Tried to buy it, but the bank blocked it as fraudulent transaction. No idea what is even going on these days. If they cant even ship hardware to an entire country, something real fucky is going on