So the USA is becoming the USSR
I got some nicotine pouches that was supposed to come in from Sweden and it’s been stuck in customs in Newark for over a month and a half now.
I had since made another order of the same stuff from the same vendor, it came in through a different port, and was delivered 2 days later.
I dunno what’s going on in Newark but I suspect it’s not going to be “destroyed”, at least not in the means they expect.
I miss snus, hard to find around here since it didn’t take off.
It used to be common to find it in head shops.
Over $100,000, so 3 maybe 4 computers?
Just 1, but it has 128 GB of RAM
Dude what the hell are you talking about! Computers aren’t that expensive. It’s got be like 8 or 9 at least!
They replaced the stolen parts with inferior hardware and exchanged the stolen equipment through Newegg’s trade-in program for store credit.
Actually a decent way to move the loot.
Apparently not that decent, because they were already caught
So if you buy a used i7 processor from Newegg, there’s a non-zero chance that who knows what went through it
and what is hidden in it.
This implies that there are many more people doing the same with better ability to not get caught (yet).
According to the affidavit, investigators found that thirty-nine computers had their processors replaced, six machines with memory modules swapped, and eight had hard drive changes. The original systems used Raptor Lake Refresh chips but were later discovered to have older hardware, sometimes downgraded to Pentium chips. Beyond the processor swap, other computers had less memory and storage capacity than their original configurations.
I didn’t know Pentium shared the same socket.
Clever girls.
The Pentium became Intel’s budget processor when the Core architecture came out. When the i7s, i5s, and i3s are tested and binned, the dies that are still fully functional but didn’t quite muster i3 levels (only 1 or 2 cores work, some of the cache is defective, only works at lower power levels/clock speeds, etc) are binned as Pentiums.
The leftovers that aren’t completely scrap are stamped as Celerons and Atoms.
I’ve grossly oversimplified it, but that’s the general idea.
Twenty-seven years later, and it is still all about the Pentiums.
27? First Pentium came out in 1993…
I still remember being soooooo fucking excited to see the next big step from a 486. I think we had a 486SX back when Pentium was current. I vaguely recall the Pentium chip being almost more like a cartridge in it’s form-factor but i could be way off. Old school computing days were the best 💖
Pentium II introduced the cartridge, then for the P2 celerons they went back to socket 370. P3 offered both slot and socket CPUs.
And if you had a CPU for a socket but a board with a slot, you used a slocket adapter!
Ahhhh yes, thank you! I should have googled it but i was swimming in nostalgia, lol 😅
Yikes, that was around the time I knew the Amiga was a dead end and reluctantly bought a 100MHz Pentium outfit. The speed, memory, and resolution was far above anything I did with my Amiga 3000 but it wasn’t as much fun. Wow that was a long time ago.
I’m so jelly you had an Amiga!! I only recently realized it was a Commodore! We loved Commodore computing back in the day. The blue screen where you’d type the commands was strangely serene (or maybe that’s just my rose-colored glasses, lol)
Fun fact you can buy new production commodore 64s with mild modernizations.
They aren’t Commodore 64s, they’re FPGAs wrapped in a 64 styled box.
That is a fun fact!! I’m gonna see what they’re running these days.
They’re certainly fun! Pricy for what amounts to a few existing community projects in a “new original mould” case but very easy to set up on modern TVs and 99% compatible with old hardware and software. Even internet capable with the right cart images to play on the BBSs that are still around.
I have one of my spare SIDs in mine. 😁
The song reference was 99 though. If you’ll excuse me I need to get back to waxin’ my modem, tryin to make it go faster.
My brain refuses to recognize that Running With Scissors is 27 years old!
Now Wierd Al is stuck in my head. A genuine thanks!
Few things are worse than Weird Al songs stuck in your head. He’s great and I actually listen to the words of his song. Don’t a lot of the time just hear the melody but Al is funny. Just recently watched the Simpsons with him singing, was an amusing random watch. He helped me understand satire better, though always a fan of cheesy satire from Mel Brooks, National Lampoons and of course UHF. For movies I’ll also add, Spaceballs (Men in Tights, but never fully watched Blazing Saddles outside of bits which is by all accounts awesome), loaded weapon one and well Mr Als UHF in case people wanted something less than serious to watch sometime. In the vein of ‘cant rain all the time’(Original Crow movie), can’t always be serious and just need a funny one. Though I do know the humour isn’t for all.
A friend recently went to a Weird Al concert and said he was very energetic the entire time. I’m jealous… I didn’t even know he was touring.
They have to be talking about the Pentium Gold line, G7400 and such. It does sound silly though.
They’ve always been the same socket/silicon for the past 15-20 years. Just far FAR inferiorsince they’re clocked down and don’t have the full cache.
Holy based
