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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

How would Snowden get a hold of one of these in Russia? Maybe through an intermediary in Kazakhstan?

Then again it's hard finding one here even in the US since they all went out of stock within 5 minutes of being listed.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

According to russian over at r/hardware GPUs have become cheaper in Russia since the ban as they are now being smuggled instead of imported via Europe with all extra cost that implies.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That doesn't make sense or I'm reading it wrong

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Legal weed is more expensive sometimes

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Smugglers take less money than government apparently