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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Amazon letting sellers post ads for ~$3K graphics cards, and then the seller ships them fanny packs. Confirmed multiple times and in reviews.

Almost too tempting...

EDIT: 🤣🤣 Look at seller reviews: https://files.catbox.moe/wg1oqi.png

DONT DO IT.

Per a previous post, I actually tried it due to the FBA return policy, cause I was putting it on an empty amz card, and cause I was bored. 🥱😏

you get a Fanny pack

I recorded the shit out of opening the package and reported it as fraud. A few people were doing the exact same thing (ordering it it case it was real, and recording opening of the package to CYA) cause we were also bored 😂

out of the norm, you have to take detailed pics and the charge stays on your card until they receive Fanny pack (yes you have to send it back 😂🤣) and ‘inspect it’ I guess due to the massive number of returns and fraud reports+ add to that the normal refund period. Not even a credit to your account would be instant once you return it to a drop off. 😕

Clearly a waste of time but will mess you up serious if you use a debit card or if there is any sort of delay that results in them receiving it late, and taking too long to process it.

Amazon will not make you whole on this. Maybe they give you a shitty coupon (some people reported a $10 credit 😒) and it’s not worth your time.

https://imgur.com/a/dHlrKnh

https://imgur.com/a/tYKVyHz

You'd think Amazon would suspend the seller or remove the listing the moment 20+ people all reported it and returned it for the same reason instead of removing the reviews and letting people get scammed (and then dragging their feet getting the defrauded people their money back)

I just received my AORUS RTX 5090 from Amazon, sold and shipped directly by Amazon as brand new. When I opened the box, it was clearly an open-box item and contained only a PCB with no GPU chip or VRAM installed. How does Amazon ship something like this as new?

I saw that the other day. Was tempted, but then when I checked the store all the reviewers were 1 stars saying that they got a fanny pack instead of what they ordered. Amazon, being Amazon had removed or crossed the review out because it was fulfilled by them not the store, basically allowing them to defraud people

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One day the mighty data centre could be toppled into obsolescence by the humble smartphone, said Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on a recent podcast.

Apple's AI system, Apple Intelligence, already runs some features on specialised chips inside the firm's latest range of products.

Microsoft's Copilot+ laptops also include on-device AI processing.

a few years ago I heard about a tiny data centre, the size of a washing machine, that was being operated in Devon, UK. In addition to its computing power, the heat it was releasing was warming a public swimming pool.

He thinks every public building should instead house a small data centre, working in a large network with each other where required, and providing heating as a by-product.

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NVTOP stands for Neat Videocard TOP, a (h)top like task monitor for GPUs and accelerators. It can handle multiple GPUs and print information about them in a htop-familiar way.

Currently supported vendors are AMD (Linux amdgpu driver), Apple (limited M1 & M2 support), Huawei (Ascend), Intel (Linux i915/Xe drivers), NVIDIA (Linux proprietary divers), Qualcomm Adreno (Linux MSM driver), Broadcom VideoCore (Linux v3d driver).

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