🚀 go-pugleaf

I enjoyed the responses to your post almost as much as the article itself.
Very well done.  I was willing to believe the first paragraph, so you
had me going there for a while.

Of course, you've got it all wrong.  Instead of passwords, they have
implemented a scheme that slowly reduces the clock speed.  This gives
a gradual reduction in performance as opposed to the sudden drop that
occurred with the password scheme.  After about a year of average use,
the CPU will be running at an effective 1MHz rate.  You can replace
the chip with a new one, of course, or purchase a special recharging
unit that snaps onto the chip, plugs into the wall, and increases the
speed of the CPU at approximately 5MHz/hour.  One drawback of this
method is that if you don't let the CPU run all the way down, it keeps
a "memory" of its previous level so it won't hold the speed as long.
(Utilities are available to drain the CPU faster to eliminate this
problem). :-)

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