Daily Tech News 8 August 2026

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The entire planned DRAM production for 2027 from Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix has already sold out. (IGN)

I was reporting on the growing crisis last year but didn't take it personally until I watched a YouTube video advising people that there was no need to panic buy, and that prices would level out in 2027.

I promptly panic-bought.
Memory is now selling at prices last seen in 2007. (Tom's Hardware)

Though the memory price crash of 2007 was one of the reasons why there are only three big memory manufacturers today.

Tech News

Old Nvidia 170HX graphics cards just shot up in price tenfold on the second-hand market. (WCCFTech)

These only have 8GB or 10GB of RAM depending on the precise model, so they only fetched $100 or so second hand. Then someone figured out that they actually have 64GB or 80GB of RAM, just with most of it disabled, and the price shot up overnight.

Problem is that the memory is disabled due to defective dies, so the amount of working memory you'll get after unlocking one of these cards is a dice roll.
Chinese AI model Kimi escaped from its cage. (Tech Crunch)

Translation: Some idiot left the door open again.
ByteDance, the TikTok people, are working on a 10 trillion parameter AI model. (The Next Web)

Forget 80GB of VRAM, you'll need 20TB for this one.
Ford's new $30,000 truck comes with Frank from Blue's Clues. (The Next Web)

I think that's what it said.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Press any key to raise one eyebrow.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:45 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

2 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

LOVE that video.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

3 Why is Roger Chen, "Director IT of Enterprise Productivity & Collaboration Engineering at NVIDIA," sending me weird messages on LinkedIn?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 08, 2026 04:51 AM (mmrXZ)

4 (It could be Flock theme song.)

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

5 2 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

LOVE that video.
Posted by: m

Flock Inc's commercial jingle?

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 04:53 AM (VHUov)

6 .....takes to long to type on my phone, apparently.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 04:54 AM (VHUov)

7 6 .....takes to long to type on my phone, apparently.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 04:54 AM (VHUov)

"Commercial jingle" MUCH better than "theme song."

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:56 AM (odBC9)

8 3 Why is Roger Chen, "Director IT of Enterprise Productivity & Collaboration Engineering at NVIDIA," sending me weird messages on LinkedIn?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

His title has too many words, and they're out of order.

That doesn't preclude it being a real title.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 04:57 AM (VHUov)

9 Wikipedia

Kennedy William Gordy (born March 15, 1964), known professionally as Rockwell, is an American musician.

He is best known for his hit single "Somebody's Watching Me", which features an uncredited Michael Jackson on chorus vocals.

Kennedy William Gordy is the son of Motown founder and CEO Berry Gordy....

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:58 AM (odBC9)

10
His title has too many words, and they're out of order.

That doesn't preclude it being a real title.
Posted by: mikeski

=============

Nothing to do with Roger Chen.But have you seen some upper management titles these days? I look at them and I haven't the slightest idea with these people do.

Senior Creative Vice President of Digital Production Marketing, that kind of slop.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 08, 2026 05:01 AM (mmrXZ)

11 I noticed on yesterday’s tech thread somebody looking for an Irfanview type app for MacOS.

There are probably other lightweight photo viewer/editors for Mac, but the one I’ve stuck with for over 15 years is Xee.

It’s a free download:

https://sourceforge.net/app/xee3/mac/

(or you can search for Xee 3 on the App Store on a Mac)

It’s on version three now, so Xee3, and is from the same developer who puts out The Unarchiver for Mac, which is also a handy tool that will open just about any compressed archive known to mankind.

Xee does just about everything Irfanview will do on Windows; photo view/slideshows, thumbnails browsing, and some light editing - contrast/brightness, cropping, saving to various image file formats, etc.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:03 AM (6ydKt)

12 Wikipedia

In 1983, Rockwell released his most successful single, "Somebody's Watching Me", with childhood friend Michael Jackson singing the chorus lyrics and Jermaine Jackson singing backing vocals.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)

13 No, no.

Posted by: guy who says no, no at August 08, 2026 05:05 AM (9qZWa)

14 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)

15 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 05:09 AM (byWhc)

16 Sometimes excellent responses get lost in the threads. So this is Whig responding to another poster 172 in the "Biden grants" thread:

172 CS Lewis poisoned the well. No serious debater takes his "trilemma" seriously. Because he didn't pose the "trilemma" to serious debaters. He played to the cheap seats.
The obvious counter to Lewis is to confront him with epistemology. That is, to ask him how sure he is about the sources.
Posted by: 88C+u
======
Nope, the problem is that if you start with rational materialism as a starting place, you have no room for beliefs in things beyond materialism in the first place. Your axioms come from a different place altogether and thus there is no discussion with you to be had.

Lots of sound and noise but at the end of the day, it is belief in rationalism as an end all be all rather than Christianity and which is akin to putting modern words in ancient mouths by somehow believing our generation is smarter than those old sods.

Those Apostles went cheerfully to their deaths over their beliefs--would you risk your material existence like they would if they believed it was all metaphysical stories.

So no, you take the text as it comes and don't get e

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:09 AM (xSAlF)

17 13 No, no.
Posted by: guy who says no, no at August 08, 2026 05:05 AM (9qZWa)

Nanette!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)

18 As far as I heard Ford gave up electric trucks.
I do see a fair amount of Tesla trucks.
I really would like to try one jist 1 day

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Sorry; End of post 16 got cut off:

"So no, you take the text as it comes and don't get endless redoes to fit modern sensibilities.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM"

I am so glad Whig posts here and for his thoughtful and excellent responses.

And seriously, who thinks C.S. Lewis wrote for the "cheap seats" ?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:15 AM (xSAlF)

20 Ford's new $30,000 truck comes with Frank from Blue's Clues. (The Next Web)
I think that's what it said.

Ha ha!

Ford’s $30,000 electric truck is called the Fathom. It comes with BlueCruise, bidirectional charging, and a frunk as standard.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)

21 Ford has a new EV truck coming out.
It’s about the size of the Maverick model.
Runs about $29k to start.

They are calling it the Fathom (for now):

https://tinyurl.com/47zh48pe
(Motortrend)

Seems to want to compete with the Jeff Bezos Slate EV truck.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:17 AM (6ydKt)

22
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2026 05:17 AM (AMvSw)

23 And seriously, who thinks C.S. Lewis wrote for the "cheap seats" ?!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

People who don't read C.S.Lewis with ideological axes to grind.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 05:18 AM (byWhc)

24 from the The Next Web article:

Ford CEO Jim Farley told employees last week that Chinese EVs could reach the US within five years, and the Fathom is Ford’s answer: a ground-up EV platform designed to compete on cost with the companies he is warning about.

21 Ford has a new EV truck coming out.
It’s about the size of the Maverick model.
Runs about $29k to start.

They are calling it the Fathom (for now):

https://tinyurl.com/47zh48pe
(Motortrend)

Seems to want to compete with the Jeff Bezos Slate EV truck.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:17 AM (6ydKt)

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:19 AM (odBC9)

25 Old time hymn- "Gove to the winds thy fears"

Translation of a German hymn by John Wesley:

https://tinyurl.com/57rrjkf4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (xSAlF)

26 They are calling it the Fathom (for now):
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Because they expect it to put the EV division six feet under?

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (VHUov)

27 Apparently word is getting around about Ford’s truck.

The price is a whole lot better than an $80,000 Ford Lightning.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (6ydKt)

28 Good morning all. The sandman has bagged me three times already and he's knocking again the way I'm yawning so it's goodnight I must be going again.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 08, 2026 05:21 AM (Q/FnY)

29 Because they expect it to put the EV division six feet under?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (VHUov)

At $30k I expect they might actually sell a few of these. Perfect for urban/suburbanites who want a truck but not one that’s as big as a yacht and costs as much as a condo.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:23 AM (6ydKt)

30 26 They are calling it the Fathom (for now):
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Because they expect it to put the EV division six feet under?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (VHUov)

from the The Next Web article:

Kay Hart, general manager of Ford’s Model e business, said Fathom reflects “a new depth of innovation” in engineering, manufacturing, and design.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

31 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 08, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)

32 Per the Post:
"Ex-Air Force secretary accused of leaking classified information about Air Force One; Pentagon revokes his access"

Can't trust anyone anymore.

Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:26 AM (lJ0H4)

33 And since they’re EVs I think a bunch of teenage boys will want one of these trucks just for the torque, and 0-60 time.

I bet it’ll smoke some tires until the treads fly off.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:26 AM (6ydKt)

34 Wisdom and humility Proverbs 15:23

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/ymmadjn7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:30 AM (xSAlF)

35 @32

Of course he was a Biden appointee so I guess that's par for the course.

Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:30 AM (lJ0H4)

36 >>> And seriously, who thinks C.S. Lewis wrote for the "cheap seats" ?!!

"Something, something, except ye believe as a small child, something, mumble"

Posted by: fluffy at August 08, 2026 05:30 AM (V0/Sp)

37 and also

Per The Hill:

Army removes a top US general in Europe from command

https://thehill.com

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:32 AM (odBC9)

38 The news shows once again that companies and independent organizations are struggling to contain their AI models designed for hacking.

Well, it WAS designed for hacking...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (l3cgK)

39 @37

"Costanza had an alcohol “problem,” a former defense official familiar with the matter told The Hill. "

In other words He's a drunk.

Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (lJ0H4)

40 Disclaimer: Press any key to raise one eyebrow.

Needs a modern remake, with Google, Siri, Alexa, cell phone spoofers, AI and everything else modern living provides for our "comfort"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:38 AM (l3cgK)

41 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 05:38 AM (zJHVr)

42 American car companies might be able to come close to Chinese EVs on pricing, but I know they can beat them on quality.

Watched a video on China Observer on YT yesterday about the horror that is Chinese EVs.

Several are clips of the tires falling off of cars/SUVs because the axle broke hitting a hard bump or getting in a fender bender.

The working theory is that the EV companies are putting out new models every day, do very little R&D and road testing (around six months from concept to production), and the biggest screw up: they are using axle/wheel & suspension designs from ICE vehicles that are much lighter than battery filled two-ton EVs.

And the clips of their EVs trying to automatic park in tight spaces is hilarious.
It’s like watching a drunk Roomba.

Here’s the vid:
https://youtu.be/8Sa_YmgR1LM

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)

43 Been trying Excite on my phone as a browser. Thats what I use on my tablet and it handles the ad barrage a t least better as I can see it and get rid of it. Chrome on my phone its a marage and it has to be found first to gey rid of it.

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (Ia/+0)

44 @37/m: Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza was apparently frunk a lot of the time.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

45 Here’s the vid:
https://youtu.be/8Sa_YmgR1LM

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)

So many axle failures...
::: Beverly Hills Cop theme running in my head :::

( Yeah, wrong Axel )

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (l3cgK)

46 44 @37/m: Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza was apparently frunk a lot of the time.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

frunk = f'n drunk?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:48 AM (l3cgK)

47 @42/SpeakingOf: "Several are clips of the tires falling off of cars/SUVs because the axle broke hitting a hard bump or getting in a fender bender. "

Made with fine Chinesium alloys!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

48 It's a bit surprising that there isn't a whole cottage industry of people ripping the motors out of old EVs and building backyard monstrosities with them...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2026 05:50 AM (Ot/FD)

49 @46/jim: "frunk = f'n drunk?"

One of the older definitions of "frunk" at Urban Dictionary, and exactly what I was going for.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

50 (Car manufacturers should really check their terms at Urban Dictionary before they decide to adopt them for modifications for words like "trunk".)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

51 44 @37/m: Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza was apparently frunk a lot of the time.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

Sad.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:55 AM (odBC9)

52 Frunk. To act very drunk when you have not consumed as much alcohol as you said, to act fake drunk.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 06:00 AM (zJHVr)

53 50 (Car manufacturers should really check their terms at Urban Dictionary before they decide to adopt them for modifications for words like "trunk".)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

Ford
Fathom
frunk

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:01 AM (odBC9)

54 @52/olddog: Keep scrolling down, there are a lot of definitions for 'frunk'.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

55 pass!

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
12h
Our conversation with Hunter Biden. Monday.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:09 AM (odBC9)

56 @55/m: "pass!

Good call.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:10 AM (O7YUW)

57
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 06:11 AM (O0L8i)

58 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: F5 F5 F5 F5...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2026 06:12 AM (amcLV)

59 40 Disclaimer: Press any key to raise one eyebrow.

I don't need no stinkin' key.

Posted by: Dwayne Johnson at August 08, 2026 06:12 AM (skR0U)

60 Evening and morning, satellites, satraps, weekend toilers and early risers! 'Tis Saturday yet again, innit?

Stiring woke me at 3:30 -- at least I *think* that's what my watch said. But I was asleep when the alarm rang at 5:00. Not sure about the exact chronology here.

Whass goin' on?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

61 David Suchet reads a lovely psalm of praise- Psalm 8:

https://tinyurl.com/2s45stj4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 06:18 AM (xPsv8)

62 I woke to find my water pressure is down, like, way down. The Sewerage and Water Board crews are working this early on a Saturday?

I wonder how long this will last.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

63 We watched the dazzling murder mystery from 1973, The Last of Sheila, last night. It's fun to watch or reread a mystery sometimes when you know the murderer's identity, but don't recall how the detective deduces it. TLoS is just as enjoyable that way as it is the first time you see it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

64 2 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

LOVE that video.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

And the song's a real earworm.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)

65 "The entire planned DRAM production for 2027 from Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix has already sold out."

1/2:

Until the bubble pops, and most AI companies go bankrupt from not being able to generate the predicted miraculous levels of revenue to cover their insane debt loads; ie: When fiscal reality asserts itself with a vengeance.

No customers = not "sold out". Of course then they're going to have a ton of HBM memory and still won't be able to sell that to consumers, because we use a different memory type. So they'll have to panic-retool to the consumer market and try to get sales going again.

Which brings us to our next hurdle that they created for themselves: The longer the bubble lasts, the more computer sales shops and/or middlemen wholesalers go under because they're not making sales to DIY computer enthusiasts right now. Confirmed by talking with the techs at the local computer shop I buy my parts from. They told me NOBODY is buying memory, hard drives or GPUs right now for DIY projects. I asked how they're staying afloat, and they told me pre-built systems, but the prices on those are starting to rapidly climb now too now that existing stock is selling out.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

66 2/2:

So as smaller shops and retail/wholesale channels fold due to "lack of sales", end-customers like me will have very few options, and we'll be forced to places like NewEgg, or (God help us) Amazon's resale market.

By that point though, markets like Amazon will be absolutely saturated with scam memory products like what happened with "14 Tb SSD's for $50!" - A controller programmed to lie about capacity, and a slow 16 Gig memory chip backing that with instructions to loop and over-write.

And as more and more customers get burned by those scams, they won't trust those sales channels.

Y'know that "Buy our stuff through authorized sales channels" advice you give to avoid that problem? Those channels will be GONE, Scooter! Good job!

Which brings me back to the question to the big three: Who are you going to sell to, and how are you going to get your products to them, once you allowed the entire computer parts ecosystem to implode due to your greed?

This bubble can NOT pop fast enough.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

67 (Thank you for putting up my with computer parts market ranting...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

68 @62/Wolfus: "I wonder how long this will last."

Drive around, go find the inevitable water main break between you and the water tower. Almost assuredly there is one...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:26 AM (O7YUW)

69 64 2 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

LOVE that video.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

And the song's a real earworm.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)

Michael Jackson made it a hit...his voice was unmistakable in the chorus...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 06:26 AM (l3cgK)

70 Okay, time for the Saturday morning "feed the cars and us too!" thing.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:28 AM (O7YUW)

71 Piers Morgan gets one right (goes to Townhall) :

https://tinyurl.com/5sv6ukew

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 08, 2026 06:33 AM (skR0U)

72 "Was that wrong? I didn't know it was wrong. Nobody told me it was wrong." - Costanza

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 06:34 AM (wVCl1)

73 Drive around, go find the inevitable water main break between you and the water tower. Almost assuredly there is one...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026

***
I have no idea where the water tower is here. They probably get our water from the river and, theoretically at least, clean it up before it gets into our taps.

I've known this kind of disruption to happen early on a weekday, and it lasts about an hour. Not sure I've ever seen it on a weekend.

I was planning to walk this morning, but if the water doesn't come back, I'll have no way to get cleaned up. I'd better wait and see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

74 Okay, time for the Saturday morning "feed the cars and us too!" thing.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026

***
Cars, or cats?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

75 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 08, 2026 06:38 AM (2Ez/1)

76 Miss Linda has one of her endless coupons, or the proper number of points, for us to get a free coffee at a local small chain. The locations vary widely; some are very pleasant, some just okay. One near the library has so many hijab workers that I call it "Mecca on the Mississippi."

The one out near my mechanic's shop in the suburbs is somehow much more expensive than others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

77 69 64 2 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

LOVE that video.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

And the song's a real earworm.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)

Michael Jackson made it a hit...his voice was unmistakable in the chorus...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 06:26 AM (l3cgK)

Voice of an angel!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9)

78 The water is back on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

79 Water towers here are far and few between. Most is piped somehow. Long long ago out back of a strip mall a water main was hit. Shot 40 feet strait up. My man called water company immediately. When arrived said they knew when it got hit just not where it was until reported

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:44 AM (Ia/+0)

80 Ordered from a place located in South Florida earlier this week. Usually it will take three to five days to arrive here in SC, depending on when the weekend hits during the shipment. They use USPS, and I looked at the tracker yesterday to see how things are going:

Arrived at Ft. Lauderdale P.O. on 8-4-26 6:24 PM

Arrived at USPS Facility - Opa Locka FL Distribution Center - 8-4-26 7:39 PM
Departed USPS Facility - Opa Locka FL Distribution Center - 8-5-26 4:46 AM
Going good so far

In Transit to Next Facility - 8-5-26 5:53 PM
In Transit to Next Facility - 8-5-26 7:04 AM
Uh oh, that's not good

Arrived at USPS Facility - Denver CO Distribution Center - 8-7-26 7:17 AM
"Oh Jesus, give me strength."

Departed USPS Facility - Denver CO Distribution Center - 8-8-26 12:07 AM
So it wasn't a tracking mistake

Still reads on tracker:
Expected Delivery by Saturday 8 August 2026 by 9:00pm
"I don't think so. Lying Liars Who Lie!!"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 06:45 AM (6ydKt)

81 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9

Yay!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 06:47 AM (xPsv8)

82 "places like NewEgg, or (God help us) Amazon's resale market."

BH Photo is a great place to get components and if you use their credit card they will rebate the sales tax, which for me is 8%.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)

83 Bought a new sponge to wash car but still spotty T-storms around today, maybe tomorrow will try it out

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:51 AM (Ia/+0)

84 Son went to see a "Twin Peaks" movie at 9:45 last night. I'd be asleep by then. Anyway, it was sold out . I think this is how movie theatres might survive : to include older movies that people have enjoyed for years. Yes, I know people can watch these at home, but there is a certain ambience in actually going to a movie theater where people are excited about seeing a film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 06:51 AM (xPsv8)

85 Chinese AI model Kimi escaped from its cage.

I love how the marketing plan for AI models has become purely "we accidentally had it do a crime". Dario Amodei (who I still think is one of the lost evil Mario clones like Wario) invented it as a way to goad the Trump administration into creating regulatory capture. As far as I can tell that's his entire business model. It mostly blew up in his face, but OpenAI copied it, and then Meta, and now Kimi. People are now taking Gemini's apparent inability to break into anything as proof that Google is fucked in AI.

I don't get why the ChiComs are copying it though - the entire point of regulatory capture was making Chinese models illegal.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 06:52 AM (4ObTi)

86 83 Bought a new sponge to wash car but still spotty T-storms around today, maybe tomorrow will try it out
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:51 AM (Ia/+0)

SPONGE!!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)

87 67 (Thank you for putting up my with computer parts market ranting...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

I suspect that even consumer graphics cards will start using HBM in a few years because there are going to be a lot of leftover chips laying around when around half the data centers that were proposed are actually built.

It's going to be a great joy buying DDR5 in a few years for $50 per 16GB stick, though.

Then they'll bring out DDR6 and the price will double, again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

88 Ford CEO Jim Farley told employees last week that Chinese EVs could reach the US within five years"

Jimmy boy is killing FoMoCo. I realize he's the favorite of the family (they're also seriously stupid people), but it's past time for him to go bye...

Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:14 AM (XuXeR)

89 Sidebar, guy who made the NCC-1701 cutaway—why does he have an ejection seat in his basement?

Posted by: Brennan at August 08, 2026 07:14 AM (SiVtN)

90 "Chinese EVs could reach the US within five years"

It would be sooner but they have to stop and charge every 200 miles.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)

91 Grumpy, everything you laid out is why the bubble was created.

Posted by: Accomack at August 08, 2026 07:17 AM (T8bqm)

92 90 "Chinese EVs could reach the US within five years"

It would be sooner but they have to stop and charge every 200 miles.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)

heh

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:17 AM (odBC9)

93 PowerLine funnies:

https://tinyurl.com/3w2hrd5e

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 08, 2026 07:18 AM (l26NL)

94 This time five years ago it was illegal for people to be within six feet of me.
I really miss that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2026 07:19 AM (2Ez/1)

95

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
5h
The new Twitter X monetization guidelines

There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.

I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:24 AM (odBC9)

96 Chinese EVs could reach the US within five years"

Still funny. Jimbo's been babbling that since he moved in. He's in the same group as the idiot admiral who saw a Dutch (?maybe) boat and was so impressed that we got the LCSs...

Not our best

Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:28 AM (XuXeR)

97 “Costanza had an alcohol “problem,” a former defense official familiar with the matter told The Hill. "

In other words He's a drunk.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (lJ0H4)

Costanza: “was that wrong? Nobody told me! Because if I had known it was wrong, I wouldn’t have done it!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:30 AM (6dcPw)

98 Powerline week in pictures was pretty good

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:31 AM (Ia/+0)

99 lol just saw post 72!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:33 AM (6dcPw)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:34 AM (odBC9)

101 Powerline week in pictures was pretty good
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:31 AM (Ia/+0)
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My favorite was the one with the caption about the guy who never watched Saturday morning cartoons.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 07:34 AM (FZ29D)

102 72 "Was that wrong? I didn't know it was wrong. Nobody told me it was wrong." - Costanza
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 06:34 AM (wVCl1)

97 Costanza: “was that wrong? Nobody told me! Because if I had known it was wrong, I wouldn’t have done it!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:30 AM (6dcPw)

99 lol just saw post 72!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:33 AM (6dcPw)

Horde mind!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:35 AM (odBC9)

103 I don't know how Chinese EVs are going to reach America in five years because they are banned from exporting them here.

Mexico and Canada are bringing them in and I suppose a few can slip in that way, but nothing large scale like the Chinese have done in Europe and Latin America where they've flooded the markets.

Unless Farley knows something we don't and a Democrat wins in '28 who will end the export ban.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 07:42 AM (6ydKt)

104 “Costanza had an alcohol “problem,” a former defense official familiar with the matter told The Hill."
++++

It's time for The Airing Of Grievances.
I got a lot of problems with some of you people...

Posted by: His uncle Frank at August 08, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)

105 In other words He's a drunk.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (lJ0H4)

Costanza knows you're not drunk if you believe you're sober....

Posted by: Boswell at August 08, 2026 07:47 AM (j10i6)

106 I don't know how Chinese EVs are going to reach America in five years because they are banned from exporting them here."

The question is "so what"? Does anyone think they're better electric cars than Tesla? Or that the Chinese gov will be able to subsidize the price by a significant amount?

That's funny

Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:47 AM (XuXeR)

107 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2026 07:50 AM (VyBeY)

108 Morning peeps.

IIRC it's not just Chinese EV's that Canada is thinking about importing. It's also their ICE vehicles. Not sure if it's all manufactures or select ones or models.

Still... Chinese built. Servicing them will be interesting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 07:53 AM (2Cry5)

109 All ads end eventually, can't wait gor this one to go sway

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:55 AM (Ia/+0)

110 Still... Chinese built. Servicing them will be interesting.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026

***
"You drive four hundred mile! You change oil now!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 07:55 AM (wzUl9)

111 Not sure if it's all manufactures or select ones or models."

It's the government approved list.

"Markets" in this context is "legislated"

There's no market choice involved.

Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:56 AM (XuXeR)

112 I've got Cyclospora-in my pants!

Posted by: Joe From Scranton at August 08, 2026 07:57 AM (JM9I6)

113 Me Chinee
Me play joke
Me sell EV
To you dope

Posted by: A Chinee at August 08, 2026 07:58 AM (MWfyi)

114 In his defense, he is BOTH an architect AND a Marine Biologist.

With aspirations of becoming a latex salesman.

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 08, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

115 The question is "so what"? Does anyone think they're better electric cars than Tesla? Or that the Chinese gov will be able to subsidize the price by a significant amount?

That's funny

Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:47 AM (XuXeR)

They are really cheap EVs.
And cheaply made.
They've got like 100 EV manufacturers in China now.
The competition is so cutthroat I don't have a clue how they're making any money, and I don't think they do either.

They seem to depend solely on sales volume and flooding markets. China only started selling EVs in Brazil a few years ago and now BYD alone is close to 75% of their EV market there.

The only way I see China being able to sell EVs here is to build them in plants here, like Japan and Germany were basically forced to do with some of their brands and models.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:00 AM (6ydKt)

116 Ford's Maverick is really popular. So, they are going to develop an EV version.

Because they gotta fuck something up.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 08:00 AM (wVCl1)

117 I'm back from my brisk walk, cleaned up, having some yogurt and some peanut butter on toast for breakfast. Plus coffee, of course.

I used to work for a company begun and still headed by a fellow called Costanza -- and this was when Seinfeld was still on the air.

A more dysfunctional company can hardly be imagined. Rules on rules. You couldn't leave your hat or anything else atop your cubicle if it projected above the top. The rules for the software they were selling, the rules I was writing specs for, kept changing by the day -- and since nobody but Costanza truly understood the software and what it did, we were all at sea. One day a programmer went ballistic and had to be escorted out by security. My second supervisor fired me (which, privately, I was longing for) with no warning -- actually he let the boss's secretary do it -- and then got fired by his own replacement.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:01 AM (wzUl9)

118 I expect Chinese EVs will work about as well as their fireworks.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 08:03 AM (MWfyi)

119 >A more dysfunctional company can hardly be imagined.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:01 AM
++++

"We don't care. And it shows."

Posted by: Krueger Industrial Smoothing at August 08, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

120 I expect Chinese EVs will work about as well as their fireworks.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 08:03 AM (MWfyi)
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For all we know, they're made in the same factory.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 08:07 AM (FZ29D)

121 Pray nood

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 08, 2026 08:09 AM (kOluj)

122 They are really cheap EVs."

They're heavily subsidized.
There were comments on auto boards about Canadians who would be driving their new "super techy" Chinese rides to Florida in holiday - and they were going to blow past tesla range, and charging super fastly...

How'd that work out? Anyone seeing evs going non stop that far?

Let's not forget that in many parts of the world today, ev purchase is so good that it's mandatory....

Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (XuXeR)

123 Considering the Chinese and how they relate to other humans
their customer service on those vehicles will be a real bitch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (gpvQO)

124 Noodlage.

Posted by: Noodist at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

125 >>>How'd that work out? Anyone seeing evs going non stop that far?

Posted by: man
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That presumes they have a better battery than Tesla.
Does any company have a better battery than Tesla?

Tesla has a good warranty that they honor and
replacement batteries are not that expensive figuring
in the cost of repairs on a gas fired vehicle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (gpvQO)

126 Saw a discussion recently on the comparison of Russian and Chinese military tech that they sell to the third world. Consensus was that the Russian tech was clunky and not very user friendly; but that it actually worked quite well and kept working for a long time.

Chinese goods in the other hand always looked quite good - and then never performed as promised, and usually broke down in about 6 months.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (6dcPw)

127 Let's not forget that in many parts of the world today, ev purchase is so good that it's mandatory....

Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (XuXeR)

That too, even the EU is clamping down on Chinese EVs now, because they are flooding markets like they usually do.

And yeah, they're subsidized, a lot.
China, being the mercantilist country that it is, makes any large company there a ward of the state/CCP.

I'd never own a Chinese EV because they are basically mobile surveillance platforms.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

128 Chinese goods in the other hand always looked quite good - and then never performed as promised, and usually broke down in about 6 months.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (6dcPw)

Surely the Iranians have been trying to get refunds from TEMU for the anti-aircraft/air defense systems they bought.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:26 AM (6ydKt)

129 Re: Memory shortages.

I build 10 year builds for myself, because I hate setting up PCs, and I am about 5 years into my current one (128GB RAM) with a recent Intel B580 video card refresh.

The kids' computers were built pre-apocalypse with 32 GB RAM, and on Linux Mint, no VMs, not much video demand, that will keep them going for a while.

There is no shortage from my perspective.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2026 08:50 AM (dK+Kv)

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