check out this aliexpress motherboard gacha https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006100511771.html

[ryan@m29.us]

@whitequark "Eyes may close in transit - there is no technology to guard against this."

https://achewood.com/2006/04/28/title.html

[sen@gnulinux.social]

@whitequark sorry, THIS is the faustian bargain we are making now? You can have PS/2 or a TPM but not both? What's next? USB-A or SATA but not both?!?!

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@sen there are some motherboards where you have to choose between more NVME or more SATA, yeah

[saikou@gts.chuuni.solutions]

@whitequark ssr ssd

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@whitequark new aliexpress lootbox drop

[wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social]

@whitequark what's the deal here? They can't be bothered sorting the inventory, or they don't want to be stuck with the version people don't want so divvy them out pseudo-randomly?

[r@glauca.space]

@whitequark huh, we're normally somewhat desensitized to ESLisms, but we were curious enough once you've mentioned it and..... this is english's fault, as far as we can tell!

doing a reverse machine translation yields a rather directly-corresponding "请理解" which *is* literally "[please] [understand/comprehend]" but would idiomatically be "please be understanding"

because the copula in english is weird!

[evamik@uwu.mikkonen.com]

@whitequark But hey, cheap ass Xeon CPU support, I use one of these kind of boards on my HTPC. It even has a beeper speaker!

[r@glauca.space]

@whitequark unless you're talking about the principle of the thing, in which case that just feels like typical aliexpress

[void@mastodon.sdf.org]

@whitequark
sorry glorified wholesaler, i only pull gatcha for mommy!

[uep@timeloop.cafe]

@wezm @whitequark that, probably mostly the former, with the additional wrinkle that the packaging may not label them differently and they don't want to send opened boxes either.

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@wezm former I think

[fm_volker@mastodon.social]

@whitequark AliExpress lootbox?

[nicolai@babka.social]

@wezm @whitequark sorting the inventory costs more than it is worth

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@r it's a stark contrast to western retailers like amazon that bend over three times for any customer request no matter how stupid

[krutonium@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark @sen The worst part is when they have both, but you lose 2 SATA if you populate the NVME. ;n;

[theking@mskey.nekomimi.party]

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems there is another header that is on yhe old one but not the new one??

[theking@mskey.nekomimi.party]

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems there is a whole IC missing on the bottom of the new one

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@theking presumably the PS/2 controller sitting on the TPM bus

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@whitequark wtf how do these folks do business