• mlg@lemmy.world
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    Restoring the stolen hardware could cost about $20,460, while fully replacing all 46 compromised computers with equivalent hardware would cost an estimated $105,800. However, additional labor to configure each system for government use will drive the bill even higher.

    I like how this dude basically did the inverse of pc servicing during his night shift, but it’s somehow gonna cost more than $100k to do the exact same thing to swap the correct components. Classic government math lol

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    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.

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          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.

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            Hello soul sibling. Blazing Saddles is amazing, if you ever find the time to get to it, Madeline Khan and Gene Wilder… chefs kisss. Brooks had an animated movie not too long ago, Paws of fury, that took a loooot of the jokes straight from Blazing Saddles and somehow made for kids.

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            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.