The year is 2005. You are allowed to time travel to 2025 and bring back whatever hardware you want - you can use this advanced technology to make huge profit in 2005 BUT if anyone figures out you are using hardware from the future you die instantly.What would you do?
>>107056979I would not bring anything. One hardware isn't enough and wouldn't even make that much money in the first place. Unless we count something silly like GPU made of gold or something
>>107056979ill take one of those fancy rockets that lands themselves seems like a pretty good idea and no one would be surprised by sudden improvement in technology by a darkhose outsider autist
>>107057054Hardware is plural my ESL friend :) You can bring back as many pieces of hardware as you want. Selling it directly might make it a bit obvious that it's from the future though when people examine it, so you might have to find a smarter way to *use* the hardware without people being able to look at it too closely...
>>107056979What if I buy tons of 2005 hardware for cheap in 2025 and sell it as slightly used in 2005?
I've thought about this a bunch. I have a laptop with 16gb vram and Mistral Small q4k, gpt oss, qwen coder 14 and some stuffif I went back to 2005 with that laptop I would be in the upper 10 percent of "programmers" even though I don't know how to code.I would just get a respectable job as a programmer and get rich with bitcoin, amazon stock etc.
>>107056979Bitcoin minersMake enough btc to become god
>>107057167you wouldn't even need mining rigs at all. buy $1 of BTC at the right time and gets thousands of coins, and just wait until each is worth $100,000+
>>107056979literally nothing was invented since 2005 it would be a lot easier to make billions with knowledge alone
>>107056979I'd get a NAS filled up with stock and crypto trading data, every research paper published until then, and a recent LLM so I could ask it about world events.
>>107056979Bring a USB stick with a copy of the blockchain mined so far. Carefully pretend I'm "mining" by claiming a block every now and then in multiple wallets making sure my mining speed doesn't seem unusual.???Profit
>>107056979pendrive with eternalblue
>>107057133I said hardware so bringing back AI models is a bit of a stretch, but it's interesting to think about. All of the models would have been trained post 2020, so a lot of the code you would be generating in 2005 would be trying to use languages and tools that don't exist, library functions that haven't been created yet. Remote working pretty much didn't exist back then so you would also have the challenge of trying to hide all of this technology from your coworkers while working an office job.
>>107057098>Hardware is plural my ESL friends after nouns makes them plural
>>107057167You don't need to mine anything. About 94% of bitcoins to ever exist have been mined at this point. You just need a copy of the blockchain and can claim any of those blocks instantly (since you know the SHA-256 of the blocks). If you do it too quickly you'll cause suspicion and/or collapse the market though.
>>107057356>>107057133>brings AI powered machine>exposes the chat interface online>gets found out/someone eventually security researches your servers http>finds the hardware/apache2 mossad backdoor
>>107057358Hardware and software are words that are both singular and plural depending on context, nobody says "hardwares" and "softwares". "Hardware" by itself is mostly understood to be plural like "hardware shop" or "computer hardware". To make it explicitly singular or plural you can say "piece of hardware" or "pieces of hardware".
>>107057358>hardwares is correct english. i am not esl.hardware is not countable therefore it is always singular.
>>107057241>>107057241Just grab a couple thousand btc from Hal's faucet running 2009 potatoes. No need for any gimmicks.
>>107057241you can't do that because if you replayed a block mined by someone else, only a couple of seconds earlier than the legitimate one, the miner's reward would still go to that legitimate miner's wallet>Because there is a reward of brand new bitcoins for solving each block, every block also contains a record of which Bitcoin addresses or scripts are entitled to receive the reward.if you wanted to change the reward address to your own, you'd have to mine it from scratch
>>107056979I think you wrote that backwards. It should be the year 2025 and I am allowed to travel to 2005, bringing 2025 hardware with me. I bring a sports betting CD like the magazine Biff had in Back to the Future.You wrote that its 2005 and I can travel to 2025, bringing 2005 hardware with me. Thats retarded. I guess I get Steve Jobs to autograph an iPhone 1 or something.
>>107057399Ah, turns out I don't actually know how the blockchain works.
>>107057421I time traveled to 2025 from 2005... it took me 20 years.
I would just bring a nice computer to play gamesAnd I could invest in companies I know would be successful
>>107056979>split keyboardCertified tranny.
>>107056979Peripherals like heasphones, speakers, mice, keyboards, would probably be very easy to disguise as prototypes. SSDs no one would notice surely, Vista would launch soon with support. Same with high capacity enterprise HDDs. Just cover up the labels and manufacture dates. Oh yeah, maybe some flashlights and batteries too. Whatever benefits from shrinking transistors.Honestly, I would just start stocking up on as many pieces of tech memorabilia was once standard and common, IBM PCs and keyboards, Windows install media, oddware, and all the CRTs you can eat. I would have a private museum of CRTs with spares and spare parts funded by post-2008 crash investments. I would dumpster dive and call everyone who is throwing away a tube.I might run out of space in my eastern euro basement,attics,and sheds.
>>107057358do brush up on countable and uncountable nouns, amigo. all the best in your English learning journey!>>107057421seriously, you should have read that twice before posting. you are the one who got it wrong. yes, the premise is a bit weird, but they did not mention bringing 2005 hardware to 2025 at all. they specifically mention going FROM 2005 TO 2025 and then bringing hardware BACK to 2005. the words are all there and in the right order. work on that reading comprehension, please, this is not TikTok... you have to do better, man.
>>107056979i own one of the optical drives from that picture :D been in my attic for years
>>107056979>arrive in 2005>wait one-two years>immediately short various banks, buy CDS if I can get them>use 50% of profits to buy BTC invest 50% in leveraged to the tits longs post crash>use proceeds to buy massive amounts of foreign currency>use my knowledge of future events to strategically dump massive amounts of currencies at the most opportune time for maximum lulz>live off of the BTC profits for the rest of my life
>>107057421>You are allowed to time travel to 2025 and bring back whatever hardware you want"and bring back" being the key part
>>107057399Yoooo Satoshi is a genius that nigga even made the bitcoin protocol time traveller proof
>>107057508I wonder at what point (someone) would take notice and eliminate you
>>107056979>What would you do?case mods were a thing back then, so i'd stuff a decent local LLM setup into a 1990s case with a physical lock on it as was common back in 2005.
>>107056979I used to think CD burners were a separate machine. When I would google "CD burners" in like 2003 or whatever I would just say pictures of people's towers, and I thought having a CD burner meant you had to have an entire extra tower sitting on your desk, and I thought I would never be able to afford that. Anyway, have a good night.
>>107057542just let it slip at some big fancy dinner that you have a copy of the epstein list and a dead mans switch, dropping that info in the 2000s is probably enough to spook them into permanently fucking off from bothering himsomething like that is probably also the only reason trump still lives and kirk doesn'ti see bigger issues in getting enough forex to really move the markets unless he just wants to destroy the eu when greece teeters on the edge post 2008 crash which would be both extremely funny and a service to humanity stopping vdl before she can become a problem
>>107057106Literally the only correct answer. Eventually some need would catch on to something about your stuff being suspect.
>>107056979id just take an encrypted record of stock prices back with me>a .csv file is not advanced technologyno, but not being a retard IS advanced technologywould probably mine and buy bitcoin when it was brand new too
>>107056979(1) copy of Wikipedia burnt to DVDs is all I'd need.
>Warp to 2025 from 2005>Acquire new old stock HDD from 2005>Log on to libgen>Fill new old stock HDD with all of the books>Change all the dates on said books>Warp back to 2005>Plug in HDD to 2005 computer>Still works>Enjoy fewer distractions >Consume all the books knowledge>...>Profit
I must change the future.
>>107056979good thread bumpyalls a bunxha fagots
>>107057467the comfiest move, but not too ambitious...
one of those bitcoin miner things.
>>107057188This. Just a list of stock price movements and the outcomes of sports games. Buy btc as soon as it became available and wait. I was an adult already in 2005, and there's nothing available today that I would have potentially died for back then.
>>107059486>I was an adult already in 2005
>>107057358Lmao. I love when ESL niggers try to incorrectly explain English to native speakers.
>>107059462focus all your career opportunities around maximizing your potential to be able to utilize a warehouse of compute to mine when it becomes possible>that weird computer stockpiling guyyou wouldnt want to try to influence anything about btc itself, the potential for shifting the trajectory would freak me out
>2025>CPUs killing themselves>mobos killing CPUs and also themselves>housefire GPUs>AI slop everywhere>smartphones have barely improved from the original iPhone>LCD screens also only marginally better>OLED screen rot>subscription to use features already available in your carI'd just go back to 2005 and ensure I was stuck in a timeloop forever
PlayStation 3. give it to my brother for his birthday the following year :)
>>107056979What tower model is that
>>107057368You're beyond stupid.
>>107057098>>107057358obvious falseflagging samefagging op
>>107061339Just be sure to avoid the leaky bad caps of that era.
>download mature FOSS software in 2025>if need be port them to Windows XP/Mac OS X and sell them as commercial software in 2005>download stock data from Yahoo! Finance/TickstoryNot hardware but honestly software and data are more practical.>buy crypto mining hardware>wait for BTC to be created>start mining
>>107056979Buzzfeed threads like this are posted by faggots.
>>107056979is it cheating to say a 256MB USB drive loaded with PDFs of stock charts?Really says something that our system would reward you more for financial speculation than actually reproducing a future technology.
>>10705697920 years is a long time to wait for bug fixes.
>>107064447>mine so many BTC that it becomes cost prohibitive for normal systems to mine them>viral spread of BTC among nerds doesn't happen>gimmick dies (at least the one you picked)>you now own 70% of a memecoinoops
>>107067382>kill BTC>hop on the next would-be BTC>kill it too>kill the next one>and the next one>crypto is abandoned entirelybased
>>107067397you've saved /g/ and prevented /biz/ from being shat into existencegod bless you
A FAT32 formatted thumb drive containing all patents issued after 2005 USPTO, EUPTO, and JPO database
>>107057356>I said hardware so bringing back AI models is a bit of a stretchwtf>take hardware back to the past with no software or data>it has no drivers>it's useless
>>107056979my dad died that year when I was 8. I always wondered what his computer experience was like. Does anyone have any YouTube videos suggestions on normie usage of computers around that time? He was not a programmer, just a welfare neet.I remember reading about Hitler on a yellow coloured website. Some Sesame Street paint games. Tonka games from cereal boxes for kids...
>>107057376for me, it's hard when and hard why if you know what I mean ;)
>>107056979BTC ASIC miners and make it look like some external storage device and when they ask what its doing and using that much power and network I'll just explain that I'm serving some media server.
>>107068515We just browsed deviantArt using Firefox and talked with our friends using Yahoo and MSN Messenger, downloaded South Park episodes and 192 kbps MP3 albums packed in ZIP files using eMule and played games like UT 2004, GTA San Andreas and Half Life 2, nothing too crazy.
>>107068704Stockpiled 100s of 368x208 PSP format movies
