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quantumlyregarded

Took two months or so. We had no guides on how to do it but the ROMs were easy to get then and it had not yet been established that it was illegal to download them. The word on the street was the old games were old enough to be in public domain so we went with it. The original, physical arcade (along with the original computer inside) is long gone but I still have the keypad and several clones. Nowadays I use USB converters and the original controllers for NES, Sega and SNES (the USB knock offs suck) and USB N64 controllers (they actually make good, cheap aftermarket ones). 

ripvanmarlow

Yeah, went up £100 to £699 which IMO is just a little too expensive for what you get. £599 felt like the sweet spot but then the ravenous memory monster took a bite. £699 for a laptop with only one usb 3 port is not great value (there's two ports but the other is USB2 which feels like a bit of a scam)

DumbNutter

SNDK is such a shit fucking company. Fuck outta here and go back to selling 16GB USB flash drives to pimply teenagers.

teh_herper

thats why USB cables are tested for durability...

DumbNutter

Sandisk is such a shit company. Just a little over a year ago, their whole business model is selling 16GB USB flash drives to some pimply teenagers for school. Got ultra lucky with the AI hardware boon. Now can't even keep it together and lost 30% off their highs in a couple weeks. Fuck you Sandisk

PrimalNumber

I sold my WFC earlier this year after making a great return. No regrets, wanted to cycle out into other things. Still own all of my USB with 2 year return of 49% and with a nice dividend. Not planning to move off it in 2026 for tax reasons, but we’ll see how the 2nd half of the year unfolds.

Theipodrookie

True they make the best USB sticks

DeathByPig

There's a funny story about a guy who worked for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program hiding a USB with submarine info inside of a peanut butter sandwich 

robmafia

you apparently missed the govt raid and etc. hurr durrrr https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/intel-denies-tsmc-allegations-that-executive-leaked-trade-secrets-2025-11-27/ >TAIPEI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Taiwan prosecutors said on Thursday investigators had raided the homes of a former senior TSMC executive and seized computers after the company accused him of leaking trade secrets, something his current employer Intel has denied. TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker and major supplier to companies including Nvidia, said on Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit in Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court against Wei-Jen Lo, its former senior vice president. >In a statement, the Taiwan prosecutors' intellectual property branch said Lo is suspected of violating Taiwan's National Security Act. On Wednesday afternoon investigators, acting on a search warrant, searched two of Lo's homes, seizing computers, USB drives and other evidence, prosecutors said. A court also approved a petition to seize his shares and real estate, the statement added.

MrDubious

Yeah, I worked in a US enterprise company 20 years ago, and connected my personal USB drive to my work PC to transfer some music to my desktop. The USB also had some network profiling tools on it, which I did not execute or copy locally. An hour later I was called into IT to explain myself while my PC was audited. Not much of a SCIF if what he's describing was working.

sneaky-pizza

They don’t appear to live in the US. So I assume that dude was the guy who picked up a USB drive in a parking lot in Iran and introduced Stuxnet into their systems

realribsnotmcfibs

They have back to back to back very specific claims. This does need seem like the generic one guy brought a USB of info and we have no clue why he did it type of deal. Getting a former or current employee to testify that they were coached is all it will really take for half these claims.

JJOne101

Lol. The company I work for in a completely normal and boring business line has locked USB ports. You're telling me that companies that truly deal with sensitive data don't do that?

random_noise

You speculate, but apparently never heard of the sneaker net? Not all classified information exists on air-gapped networks or standalone machines. Many of those classified machines are also on classified networks and people who use them have a network that can span the entire country in which those devices can communicate and access to many different flavors of cloud or local secure storage. I used USB sticks, CD's/DVD's, portable SSD's to move updates to and from those secured networks until I built a classified software repostitory on an air gapped network. Stood up a linux repo. Its not about sneaking the hardware in to move the things. I had authorization for those activities and paperwork to get that gear I carried with me through site security checkpoints. USB devices are very hard to detect, and those security folks and metal type detectors you walk through don't usually pick them up or search your stuff that closely in a messenger bag with lots of other things. I would also support the download and transfer of classified data (usually via portable drive) to give to Lockheed to take home on an airplace with them to their secure office for their needs. I can do whatever I want to those devices when I am in possession of them. Its referred to as the sneaker net, because its Shoes that people wear on their feet that power physical part of the data transfer process that bridges secure networks with insecure ones like the internet or to say move lots and lots of data cross country.

AnotherThroneAway

Nah. There's some big managers shorting the stock and going long on the ADR. USB I think even suggested this

LuckyWinds

> Bitcoin and crypto maximalists fundamentally have no answer to the question of "what happens to everyone else?" > Like, okay, if Bitcoin is the global currency and only a few thousand people own it, what happens to everyone else? > If MSTR controls 14% of Bitcoin, what happens to all the other countries with guns and infrastructure? The simple answer is that bitcoin doesn't need to be the global currency to be successful. And IF bitcoin were to become the global currency, it certainly isn't going to happen on any quick timeframe. A fast track to global currency would most likely lead to extreme hardship for most people. Sort of like someone in the 1800s saying "The USD will become so powerful in the future that other countries will run their economy on the dollar!" Yeah that happened, but it took decades, even over a century for it to happen. So while that person sounded like a crazy person at the time, they were technically right. It all depends on timeframe. Someone saying bitcoin will become the global currency soon is making a dumb claim. I'm as pro bitcoin as you can get and I think IF it happens (which I don't think is really possible to even talk about) it would be 50-100 years from now and a slow growth. Your comment is a great example of what's wrong today with bitcoin skepticism. I'm not trying to specifically call you out, but point out that when you look into what people say to criticize bitcoin, they are often just criticizing what someone else said bitcoin will do instead of bitcoin itself. > What happens to the people who tangibly grow things and don't want to deal with some weird 27 word USB stick? The future of bitcoin for the basic person is through 3rd party custody. The benefit is that unlike fiat currency it can't be inflated forever. But the average person won't be holding it themselves. Just like the average person today doesn't hold all their money in cash at home. This has been discussed in the bitcoin space since the beginning.

KanishkT123

Bitcoin and crypto maximalists fundamentally have no answer to the question of "what happens to everyone else?" Like, okay, if Bitcoin is the global currency and only a few thousand people own it, what happens to everyone else? If MSTR controls 14% of Bitcoin, what happens to all the other countries with guns and infrastructure? What happens to the people who tangibly grow things and don't want to deal with some weird 27 word USB stick?

trlocos

You guys don't understand it. They just download old unused RAM from the internet just like I did back in the day. Probably put in a USB stick or something. I just hope they don't get a virus, which happened to me.

New-IncognitoWindow

I can get AI on a USB for free

BoxesOfSemen

The steering has no internet connection whatsoever. At most you can get a virus to get the electronic charts to go down when they plug in the USB to update them, but even then, I'm pretty sure they'll just stay far away from land. In the worst case, you flip a switch and a dude stays next to the hydraulic pumps and activates them manually. Also, that ship continues underwater for like 10 more meters, it would have gotten stuck way out, unless these guys are vacationing next to an underwater ravine.

Lucky-Ambassador8285

The world will be run by USB sticks.

GrizzlyP33

Hey I’m not saying I’d buy at these levels, just that it has nothing to do with USB and their drives are pretty good. Doesn’t mean the valuation isn’t insane today. Question is how much more insanity the AI race can bring before the drop.

cxr_cxr2

**Basically, the kind of gains it took Apple 30 years of innovation and leadership to achieve, NVIDIA 10 years as the undisputed AI leader, Amazon 20 years, and Microsoft 25 years… SanDisk pulled off in just six months with its shitty USB flash drives (and it only has a 10% market share in flash drives, which is basically nothing).**

TreGet234

Down 9% 😒.... USB sticks might be dead.

drkgla

Why are you overcomplicating it? You buy Microsoft and SpaceX. All you ever needed was RAM chips and USB drives.

Marko343

Last year in order to watch F1 in HDR I bought an Apple TV 4K(also because it had a gigabit Ethernet port) and it's been amazing. Everything is so snappy, the remote is great and USB c rechargeable. I'm not an apple person and have always had Android but if you're in the ecosystem can be even better. I've been using various versions of Fire TV over the years and the 4K one was pretty good but the blatant ads everywhere and auto populating suggestions on my home page was annoying. Mine was behind my TV and could never get Bluetooth headphones to work without cut outs. While not cheap I plan on finding some used ones on FB marketplace for my family.

TreGet234

USB sticks are now a high margin high moat product.

kinisonkhan

Mostly Android TV. You can find Kodi for AppleTV, but you have to sideload it and its maybe a 30 step process. For Android TV, its in the Play Store, takes less than a minute to install. If you've never owned an Android media player, get an ONN Pro, which is a $50 Walmart media player thats easy to hack (google "onn pro remove bloatware"), you just need a USB Type A to A cable.

bunky_bunk

almost all hardware flown to space is flown there without humans on board. Cables come lose and USB stick become unrecognized in places where no money was spent to make such things virtually impossible.

D1rtyH1ppy

Not an astronaut, but data centers need a human to go do stuff every now and then to the racks. A cable comes lose, a USB stick no longer gets recognized, lots of other stuff. Are we going to have people stationed at these space data centers?

taplar

According to the USB global wealth report from 2025, the average wealth of a Switzerland citizen is 620k USD.

RegardEngineer

CEOs and the board of directors are grateful for USB regards pump.

Fragrant-Frog-9290

most corporate laptops have all local storage encrypted now days and USB locked down

ValarOrome

Bro, I have under inventory the crappies piece of shit USB/mic headset.... Like the one in the call centers? 😆 My company is listed in the NASDAQ and makes billions every quarter.... You are now telling me they are gonna give everyone DGXs 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Jaded_Drink8872

"FGT NAND" refers to a **Floating-Gate Transistor** used within a **NAND flash memory** architecture. It is the fundamental component that allows non-volatile data storage in everyday electronics like SSDs, smartphones, and USB drives ☝️🤓

Initial-Magazine2169

Brother, what? It's up 25% on the week with USB and Susquehannah publishing 1600+ price targets.

Matt6453

Also shitty laptops with keys that wear through and USB-C ports that break after 6 months.

JE3146

Also a T1D. I’ve had 2 rounds of the X2. Still using USB micro to charge in 2026 is criminal. They’ve completely dropped the ball with future proofing their own ecosystem. I invested in 2017. Watched it climb to like $150 a share, stupidly didn’t sell my massive gains and watched it get reduced to the pittance it sits at. I truly think their main talent and leadership cashed out as millionaires and left.

_Clit-Commander_

My stupid Corsair Keyboard is so dumb I can’t turn of the lights even when the computer is shut down, I have to disconnect the USB every day

eloc49

Don’t forget he brought us the MacBook pros with only 4 USB C ports (way before that could have been realistic like now) and the freaking TOUCH BAR 😂

Watson_365

Cut to the future of me whipping my AI trading bot with a USB-C cable because it maxed my credit card on Only Clankers

tika_dengu

he should launch Nvidia branded USB sticks at Computex and the markets will go crazy

Due-Programmernot

Father in law works for a big tech company. He’s sold his stock as he went. If he hadn’t sold his stock he’d be somewhere between a 8-10 millionaire by now. And I had like 10 btc somewhere on a USB from back when I was in college and BTC was a novelty. The truth is you just wouldn’t have kept the stock this long. You would have sold it at 10,000 or 100,000.

LazyDazyFazy

Lmao reminds me.of those 1 TB USB drives from AliExpress

Ggelasha

Switched to one laptop + dock about a year ago and haven't looked back. Running dual monitors off a Thunderbolt 4 dock — sit down, one cable, both screens light up with all peripherals ready. When I travel I just unplug and go. The key for trading is making sure the dock actually handles dual monitors at the resolution you need without any lag or flickering. Cheap USB-C hubs will technically output to two screens but you'll notice input lag on charts and sometimes dropped frames — not what you want when you're watching price action. Things to check before buying: * **Your laptop's port** — Thunderbolt 4 or USB-C with DisplayPort Alt Mode. This decides which docks will actually work. * **Power delivery** — get a dock that charges your laptop too, otherwise you're back to two cables. * **Ethernet** — if you're trading on WiFi you're braver than me. Most good docks have gigabit built in. One device is simpler to maintain, easier to keep synced, and modern laptops have enough power that you're not sacrificing performance anymore. The dock makes it feel like a desktop when you're home. [This covers the main differences between dock types](https://byrdpilot.com/usb-c-docking-station/) if you want to make sure you pick the right one — a lot of people buy a dock that doesn't match their laptop's port and wonder why it doesn't work.

Parking-Mirror3283

Good artists copy, great artists steal. Why spend the billions and decades researching it yourself when you can pay 1 dude $5mil to mail over a USB with all the data instead?

WaitformeBumblebee

Seagate isn't in the memory business, it's in storage, and they don't even produce NAND, only spinning rust (HDD). Investing in new HDD factories now is like investing in floppy disk factories when USB became standard. They should invest in NAND, if they don't China sure will.

OwnObject8163

I bought 2 sandisc USB drives today, only about 10 left and the 16 gb 32gb and 128gb sold out only 64gb left. Real problem happening to consumer data storage, not just AI

Popular_Tomorrow_204

No. Since AIs need no space the graves will just be glorified USB Sticks. So long MU and SNDK

ComplexLook7

In the same way cars have breathalysers, trading accounts should have USB pp measurement dongles ... if your under 7 inches NO TRADES.

Axwe8

# I used to have a **SANDISK** USB long time ago LOL 🤡

makmanos

I mean at least I have been an NVDIA fan since ever for their GFX cards and last PC build I did during Covid I said man I should invest in what I like yet I never did but SNDK? who made USB sticks and Flash rams for cameras? WTF!

Fragrant-Data6554

i haven't followed stonks for 1 year. Just came back this week and i can't believe a USB company like SanDisk is actually becoming yuge

Axwe8

#### I used to have a **SANDISK** USB long time ago LOL 🤡

Paul_Robert_

Wait, a minute. USA. USB! Holy fuck.

Professional_Con_007

For sale two vintage high quality more rare than memory is to get nowadays SNDK 2mb USB sticks with might be some old shots of my own usb stick.  Everything is functional.  Starting bid $10000 per

VeryRareHuman

Something you are doing wrong. No issues around 5000 laptops in company.  Sure random driver issues because users use all kinds is USB devices. Otherwise mostly it's very low maintenance.

ZealousidealSector19

Should I start stockpiling USB drives?

Beautiful_Proof586

Micron Technology, Inc. is a global American technology company engaged in the development, production, sale and distribution of computer memory and computer data storage solutions, including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, USB flash drives and other memory technologies

rioferdy838

Funny story about how I got to know Sandisk. Back in school, we used to pretend those retractable USB sticks were penises and have sword fights with them. Who knew they were worth so much.

perceptive_AI

I wouldn't have guess the company that made my $10 USB stick would go on to 40x in a year

Weak_Ostrich459

USB Mini AB producers must be rolling in dough with the amount of TI-84 calculators take their obscure charging cable, legitimately lost mine and my exam is tomorrow and I needed this calculator but its fucking dead and I have like a million other USB charging cables but the one I fucking need. Actually infuriating...

Juntaur

It's a USB stick with a bunch of long strings of characters that are worth what the next chump is willing to pay for them. This is practically the entire company.

WendyDumpsterFire

Selling my 8gb USB who wants it starting price 420

Sick0h

Posted my old SNDK USB on eBay and got offered 38 million immediately. Wild. Told him no though, I know it’s work twice that. And it will be in like 6-7 days.

realribsnotmcfibs

To be fair until micro idiots fix windows 11 and replace it with the next version they deserve the hate. You can’t even download the windows 11 iso and install it on a USB drive using a windows installer tool that worked fine for generations of windows only for it to not even work on a windows 10 OS. You literally have to download a random third party tool to build the installer USB. Make that make sense?!?!?!? Never mind their invasive malware, a windows security feature that can’t even find a virus when 500 ads are plowing your desktop while you scan, and broken eco system that they renamed several times for no reason.

TechBubbleTrouble

I’m gonna place my Sandisk USB drive into a glass case like a show piece

TechTuna1200

Also if you use 100% of your brain, you become a USB stick People were joking about they Lucy movie, but now it’s happening in real life

Warren_Buffets_Son

You wake up in 2002. NVIDIA is considered a video game graphics card company. SANDISK is just an another USB maker. You do not know what AI is. You go back to sleep.

Adept-Aardvark-7257

Don't know how the increasing value of USB hampers trades. Why was I taken down?

mx5plus2cones

So when I was briefly retired from tech for 4 years, I was taking a bunch of fun classes at the local community college. Autobody shop, autopaint and restoration...welding...and some basic accounting and bookkeeping, just for the hell of it. I did about a year's worth of classes in a few week... Professor Claude was a excellent study aid. One of the early assignments was completing a balance sheet ... It was also my first time using Claude with OpenOffice... [https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y5Mx3Ry1do9KTHPd9](https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y5Mx3Ry1do9KTHPd9) But man, after seeing what it could...I went right out early retirement and went right back into tech working on AI with a CTO of a startup doing a lot of very interesting projects in the automoative space. And it's only gotten better...Way better. Our software development pipeline.... Vibe coding was a year ago. Most of it is agentic , spec driven development now. I haven't hand written a line of code myself in about 2 years. And we haven't had a need to hire as many engineers/QA/or for that matter program managers and product managers. It won't replace all jobs. For example, I deal with a lot of on device prototyping with hardware , connectivity, and automotive that requires someone to be phsyically working on the systems with the AI assisted software. BUT, it definitely is a new world out there. Frankly, we don't need as many white collar workers anymore to do much of the work. Just last month, I wanted to to have and OBDII scan tool for my Mclaren to resert the service indicator light, that in the past requires a factory scan tool because it's a feature that is available only on the vendor specific side, not generic OBDII. A factory scan tool to do this is $7000, my Launch X431 Pro is about $1500 and requires a $400/year annual subscription. The better Autel tool is $2500 +$800/year subscription. I simply hooked up a OBDII Y adapter, connected my scan tool on one end of the Y, and a CAN bus to USB dongle to the other side of the adapter, got it setup with claude, and wrote up a spec that had claude listen on the CAN bus reording the traffic, as I used the my Launch scan tool to go through the OBDII interface to reset the service light. Claude captured the entire CAN trace, and generated a brand new Python app to do the exact same thing as my $1500 scan tool with a $400/year subscription... in about 20 minutes. Sure it was a little buggy at first, and dog slow. And I barely know Python, but after dorking around with it for a bit longer and making minor modifications, I had a duplicate OBDII scantool in a few hours, which without AI would have taken me weeks to figure out myself... And because of it, I don't need to pay the $400/year annual subscription fee for my OBDII scan tool moving forward. This is exactly why a lot of the software company's stock is tanking out of fear. For some things (not all things), you don't need to buy the pre-packaged software anymore...

Karl151

I remember reading the news about SNDK being spun off by Western Digital last year and I thought to myself who the hell is going to buy stocks in a USB drive company.

elvee61

I never learn. Ate chicken salad at a reunion. "It smells okay". I'll be trading from the shitter once again today. Note to self: Call handyman about putting in USB outlet above toilet.

gopoohgo

the financials (AXP, JPM, USB) in my port are a major laggard fwiw

Foxhound-71

Dude those sketchy drugs turned out to be AMAZING and my 20s are better for it. RIP Silk Road and my USB drive I lost with like 30bitcoin on it.

ckin-

If this would actually happen, as it seems it won’t, having to go back to 90’s phone design of just removing a battery, I would import the fucking thing from outside EU. Think of the insane ugly design choice to make this happen. So I’m happy this is not a thing. Changing a port to USB-C is different and I’m very happy for that.

IllllIIlIllIllllIlll

>And here’s why this matters, you see Apple doesn’t make two versions of the iphone. When the EU forced USB-C it became USB-C everywhere when the EU demands replaceable batteries everyone get replaceable batteries It would be pretty funny if this didn't happen this time around. Two possibilities: * they make an EU specific version with easily swappable batteries that will surely be more expensive and less waterproof. People from other countries will complain that they don't get easily swappable batteries, and people from the EU will complain that they have to pay more for a phone that's less waterproof and more bulky. * they stop selling the iPhone in the EU. Less likely but it would be equally hilarious. Btw I'm an android user from the EU so I don't really give a shit. I would just enjoy witnessing the chaos.

Retaining-Wall

USB-C on all phones was smart, too.

Flynn_Kevin

>50/50 odds can’t get much better And somehow it still takes flipping the USB cable at least 5 times to get it inserted.

EarthquakeCrater

USB thumb drive shelves empty at Walmart.

EarthquakeCrater

USB flash drives are the greatest invention since beyond meat.

DENIMSHORTS_840SCORE

Im over here just strokin my USB drive an' shit

GoodLittleDancer

Sandisk? My mom has some old USB thumb drives for sale, on Etsy.

mardigrasmoker

After today I’m convinced 🥭 walked right into the NYSE with a USB and plugged his money printer directly into spy.

deathlyharry

if i buy a sandisk USB drive on Amazon right now its basically the same thing as owning a piece of the stock

Retaining-Wall

>USB thumb drive SanDisk?

FuckleUp

Mythos works it just turned my dishwasher into an AI sexbot with one prompt and old USB thumb drive

Aware_Secret_8910

Don't they just to USB sticks

Advanced_Divide_4641

They have double ended USB drives now.

Ninja_Cooter

SNDK must stand for suckin dick bc I know that stock price is way too high just for some USB flash drives

WSBaddict

The thing is, absolutely no one use clouds to transfer a large amount of data. Everyone uses hard drive or USB. To put it into perspective, it would take minutes to transfer 1TB of data to a hard drive, but it would take days to transfer 1TB of data to cloud. And 99.9% of the time the transfer would crash and you would never be able to actually download 1TB of data unless you download smaller folders one at a time.

Valkorion335786

Coworker: Hey did you finish your part of the presentation? Me: Yeah, here you go *hands a USB drive* Student with a Macbook that doesn't have a USB-A: Just Airdrop it to me Me: *Runs out of the room holding my sorrow and my Huawei* **Causing problems not existent before is Apple's biggest merit, POS stock**

AdAny631

He won’t be able to make public appearances anymore. It’ll instead be Musk claiming: “AI Trump is better than (insert democrat/liberal candidate here). Now, ummm , you see with Optimus ummm robots we can download a human brain into the robot. Unfortunately scanning the entire human brain usually takes petabytes of data but since Trump has uhhh, yes, he has an optimized brain so it is only gigabytes of data fit on a USB stick, very efficient. We then used an algorithm called middle out and compressed it further. Without further ado, I present you to your 2028, 2032, 2036 and eternal President, Optimus Trump!” Immediately after the announcement, Optimus Trump leaves to play golf at Mar a Lago 2.

Akiraooo

I was looking up a USB charger and typed UBS charger. A UBS charger is going to be much more expensive...

moorhound

Doing a garage cleanup, and it's time for the fateful moment I've been dreading... What to do with the random tote of cables. I've separated all the power strips into a different tote; these are all the ones I'll rarely, if ever, use. A 30-foot HDMI. DVI cords. DisplayPort. Side-mount Micro USB. Composite cables. MOLEX connectors. TV coax. I think there's a DS charger in here. I know what I must do, but do I have the strength?

themagicalpanda

Honestly, that's what I call a cool story bro. Such a riveting tale, I honestly copy and pasted it to word, saved on my hard drive, backed it up on a jump drive, drove to the bank, put the jump drive in the safe deposit box, and will leave it there until my kids turn about 12 (when they can actually state their age, and ask what it is I'm showing them), when I will pick it up, put it in an old USB drive reader and relay this cool story to them and tell them, "kids, this is what a cool story should look and sound like...not like the stories your generation tells.

patricktu1258

If USA is great again, why would someone invent USB

Haikoe

USB sticks company

Haikoe

Tech will be next. Semi conductor business is very inflated. People buying MEMORY, the most worthless part of computing, at 5x prices. This is not sustainable. Prices will come down eventually. SANDISK OH U MEAN THAT COMPANY THAT SELL USB-STICKS FOR $8 IS WORTH A TRILLION DOLLARS. Real pets.com stuff right there. Just not ready to pop. As soon as borrowing money gets more expensive, shits gonna pop real fast, it will kill demand and prices for memory and storage real fast.

bearhunter429

#Yesterday at Walmart I saw USB memory stocks for $50-60 which used to be $20 last year LMAO🤌