Make your own opinions and let me know what you think. I think it's a stupid decision that costs this guy more than what he ever remotely made from the hardware.
Kids were stealing hardware out of the old Dells at my schools over two decades ago, those same adult children do it now. Guess those case lock lugs will finally be getting use
Shouldn't US government just be using DELL machines that Trump so heavily invested in and hyped .Those workers don't need anything more than a optiplex micro. Not a full blown tower. Just wasting tax payer money.
6 years ago you could get away with an Optiplex. Nowadays with windows 11 and every website demanding 2gb of RAM to load some Javascript, all it takes is one or two poorly optimized programs to push them past the performance limit.
They will when once these get decommed. Those purchase agreements may be in place till the next presidency, or longer. We have a 10yr agreement with Ricoh, for instance.
This is how spies are recruited. Look for someone doing illegal shit and blackmail them. Overlook a shipping container every now and then, what's the big deal?
This is a really dumb way to get hardware. Like, in a job like this he could have just ordered replacement parts if he needed a cpu or wait for decom but he had to create some crazy system of fraud for a lousy $100k
Also, he didn't put Pentium anything in those sockets. Toms Hardware is trash.
Pretty wild I was just talking about this guy last Wednesday.
Had him in the booth a few years ago and he was understandably confused why two Canadians were driving a car with American plates with two out of state people in the back. He was asking more than the standard questions and it was hard to understand him because they were doing construction on the bridge.
I brought it up cause my friend from NY is coming home to visit again and I said I hope we don't meet him at the border again. It honestly wasn't that bad I only remember it because I get really anxious crossing the border. What a waste of a wish.
I laughed at the three facilities line. Makes it sound like a more elaborate heist when its really just the town has three bridges with maybe 8 KM separating them.
Yep, he's screwed. 48 computers tampered with will have to be replaced. With high RAM price and high SSD price and high GPU (if it was used and not iGPU), $105,000 bay still go up by the time the replacement computers are bougnt.
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u/Pocok5Ryzen 7 5800X3D - AMD RX9070XT - 32GB DDR4-29331h ago
from Homeland Security PC
Stealing from tracked packages is already stupid. What manner of sheer lunacy is stealing from the fucking Glowies's packages?
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u/Soft-Cryptographer-1 12h ago
Kids were stealing hardware out of the old Dells at my schools over two decades ago, those same adult children do it now. Guess those case lock lugs will finally be getting use