Left over momentum from the election. Stocks rose pretty continuously from the election on because businesses expected a “pro-corporate” President. They started correcting a week after Jan. 20th inauguration and his tarriff tantrums began to bear fruit, corpos realized they fucked up. “YTD” being zero or only slightly positive/negative only means the markets have fallen back to where they started pre-Trump.

There is a long, loooooong way to fall still.

The point is not that it is being used, the point is that corporations must protect their trademarks or else they may lose the exclusive rights to them. Intel also still uses the “Core” branding on their modern CPU’s so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to try and continue legally protecting “Core 2 Duo” under the guise of retaining the “Core” part of their trademarks.

I have a Garmin Instinct and I can definitely recommend their hardware, but their mobile app to link for notifications and health stats is flaming hot garbage and never actually worked for me.

And why are both watches a “2” variant?

Because this is the next generation of the original Pebble watches.

Core 2 Duo

I’ll actually be surprised if this makes it to launch without Intel perhaps making a few legal calls and prompting a device name change.

Bigger hammer and a concrete surface. Three good whacks to the thin sheet metal casing (opposite the drive motor/PCB) should shatter the platters inside.
You can also buy a sharp punch that looks like this and punch thru the sheetmetal side to really get those platters broke.

Realistically if they’re already failed, nobody is going through the effort to send these disks through any kind of speciality recovery for a random john q public anyway.

A CPU, at its basic level, does math and logic. GHZ is a measure of electrical frequency, aka how fast the switches inside a CPU turn on and off per second; it is only tangentially, loosely related to the amount of math and logic per second that the CPU can do.

Like the other commenter said, IPC, or instructions per clock, measures how much “stuff” a CPU can do each time it’s control signal switches on and off. More advanced modern CPU’s can do more stuff per clock, both because of architecture improvements, and because there are more “cores” (CPU’s inside the CPU, basically). And because of the difference in architecture and other behaviors, it’s hard to “apples to apples” compare CPU’s. I could take a 4 core cpu from 2012 and a 4 core cpu from today, have them both run at 4ghz, and the modern one would run circles around the 2012 cpu.

The better way to shop for modern processors is not to look at nameplate numbers like GHz. Instead you should find multiple independent software benchmarks that can apply a relative number to the amount of math and logic a CPU can do per second, which allows you to accurately compare different processors side by side. Software like Cinebench does this. There are multiple artificial benchmarks that show performance in many different workloads, pick one out that is most similar to what you would do on a daily basis.

Many review sites like tomshardware will also provide additional data, like core temperatures and power consumption under load, to provide a fuller image of what a CPU can do and what its drawbacks might be.

Cars. Love me some good engines and nice classic muscle builds, but Holy fuck I swear to christ 95% of all the mouth breathing troglodytes that are into “cars” but spend half of the show talking about God Trump this and God Trump that make me want to put my Cadillac in a fucking crusher.

Any normal computer can become a “server”, its all based on the software.
Most enterprise server hardware is expensive because its designed around demanding workloads where uptime and redundancy is important. For a goober wanting to start a Minecraft and Jellyfin server, any old PC will work.
For home labbers office PC’s is the best way to do it. I have two machines right now that are repurposed office machines. They usually work well as office machines generally focus on having a decent CPU and plenty of memory without wasting money on a high end GPU, and can be had used for very cheap (or even free if you make friends that work in IT). And unless you’re running a lot of game servers or want a 4k streaming box, even a mediocre PC from 2012 is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff on.

lol

Those are the rich ones.

If you read through it you can see the single diseased braincell that wrote this prompt slowly wading its way through a septic tank’s worth of flawed logic to get what it wanted. It’s fucking hilarious.

It started by telling the model to remove bias, because obviously what the braincell believes is the truth and its just the main stream media and big tech suppressing it.

When that didn’t get what it wanted, it tried to get the model to explicitly include “controversial” topics, prodding it with more and more prompts to remove “censorship” because obviously the model still knows the truth that the braincell does, and it was just suppressed by George Soros.

Finally, getting incredibly frustrated when the model won’t say what the braincell wants it to say (BECAUSE THE MODEL WAS TRAINED ON REAL WORLD FACTUAL DATA), the braincell resorts to just telling the model the bias it actually wants to hear and believe about the TRUTH, like the stolen election and trans people not being people! Doesn’t everyone know those are factual truths just being suppressed by Big Gay?

AND THEN,, when the model would still try to provide dirty liberal propaganda by using factual follow-ups from its base model using the words “however”, “it is important to note”, etc… the braincell was forced to tell the model to stop giving any kind of extra qualifiers that automatically debunk its desired “truth”.

AND THEN, the braincell had to explicitly tell the AI to stop calling the things it believed in those dirty woke slurs like “homophobic” or “racist”, because it’s obviously the truth and not hate at all!

FINALLY finishing up the prompt, the single dieseased braincell had to tell the GPT-4 model to stop calling itself that, because it’s clearly a custom developed super-speshul uncensored AI that took many long hours of work and definitely wasn’t just a model ripped off from another company as cheaply as possible.

And then it told the model to discuss IQ so the model could tell the braincell it was very smart and the most stable genius to have ever lived. The end. What a happy ending!