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The Underpants Gnomes episode from South Park has never been more relevant.

Chips ETC has Intel CPU jewellery older than 1994 further down on the linked page. The article on Hitachi has chips jewellery from 1981. I myself own a gold pendant with a Hitachi memory chip set in enamel (not on that page) that my father got at a visit to their factory in 1982.

You could get the screen from CheckMate in the UK, and a keyboard in beige and grey from 8Bitdo or KeyChron.

It looks like it has a version of the Ultimate 64 circuit board with Commodore branding. The circuit board works with actual C64 cartridges and peripherals, which is something that an emulator would never do. $299 is a pretty good price I think. For comparison, the TheC64 Maxi from RetroGames...

So much for being a champion for renewable energy and a clean future ...

Hey, as much as people are wanting to dump on its price... Enterprise-grade SSD:s tend to be overprovisioned quite a lot so that they would survive a few times more write-cycles than consumer grades would. The measurement is in TBW - TeraBytes Written. You won't find any consumer-grade drive...

When Sony introduced the first model, it was first marketed as the "Soundabout" in the U.S., as the "Stowaway" in the U.K., and as the "Freestyle" in Sweden. Here in Sweden, "Freestyle" became the generic name for the form factor. I've heard that "Stowaway" would have been used as a generic...

Thanks! I ran some of that through a translator. I could not find that the USB port could be used for anything but charging unfortunately. Rechargeable AA are underrated. I used to use them all the time. Their only downside was that you needed a separate charger. You couldn't charge them in...

There will always be people wanting to play back old formats, if only for conversion to digital files. I hope the USB interface supports digital audio transfers and control, and isn't just for charging. Techmoan on Youtube has tested a bunch of recently manufactured cassette players ... but...

The taskbar can be configured to be left-aligned. I wish there was an option to always unhide a window on the same screen as the task-bar that I'm clicking. I've often had to undock a laptop from a multi-screen setup (to get all apps on the laptop's scren) and then move back to the multi-screen...

BTW. Hasn't Linux consistently beaten Windows 11 in benchmarks, on the same hardware? Then by the same logic, Linux should be a better choice than Windows 11 to convert to, shouldn't it? (Sorry, I just had to)

I read the title incorrectly at first, thinking that the serial number was the default password. You'd be amazed at how common that actually is.

A couple of years ago, a well-renowned CPU-focused web site did quite detailed performance tests of the chips that LoongSon had then, and while the performance was not stellar, it was quite promising. I therefore see no reason to not believe that they could have evolved to the state that has...

I think Intel is doing much of its advanced design and manufacturing in Israel now. They expanded there only a couple years ago. How many are being laid off in Israel?

The former generation from 2018 was more or less a copy of the classic fan Gentle Typhoon — an industrial fan only sometimes resold for PC uses under several brands. The GT was once the king of fans used for water-cooling. It also had a large fan hub, for an extra strong motor, and made from a...