the problem is they mingle stock from every source into one pile with no discernable way to identify what came from where.

the exploding power supplies forced into bundles are what keep me away. cant return the catastrophically failed PSU without returning everything else, either. total scam.

Newegg is a fucking open septic pit.

Fred sold it off to some chinese acquisition company and its almost a fucking scam now at this point.

amazon has been getting less generous with the returns for years now.

Especially if you have more than a few returns per year.

Yes. If you sell on amazon, and have amazon fulfill the shipping… you ship your stuff to amazon, and its just put in teh big pool with all the other items of the same kind.

Even returns get put back into the pool.

its the absolute most pants on head stupid fucking way possible to manage inventory to the point that shit like this seems almost intentionally designed for rather than a consequence of.

Which is why anytime you order anything from amazon, you should record the entire box to show its untampered with, then film the entireity of the opening and confirming everything inside is actually inside.

THere was a famous case of a guy who bought a 10 thousand dollar camera and got a box of rocks, and amazon sent him a replacement and got a box of bricks, before finally getting the camera on the 3rd try… I think recording his second opening saved him from having amazon call him a scammer.

You can absolutely get a total site ban with no reason.

All it takes is some offended moderator to cry to site admins, and more frequently than not its because you dared to not press puckered lips against the pumpkin colored donut hole of their false-god emperor.

I’d wager good money on the fact that they even run bot nets that mass report any undesirable comment, cause mass reports tend to provoke sitewide bans real fast. possibly automatically

I just find it hilarious that the top/right/left toolbar was possible in windows 95/98/ME

but its to much of a technical problem to do today.

I guess thats what you get with AI doing all your coding…

I’m on linux because of Microsoft

And thats where we can come together. 7 was the best, the peak of microsofts excellence.

I’d probably still be running it today if I could, but it died, and my choice was Windows 11 or Linux… so I went linux, and never looked back.

Straight up said I wouldn’t call 10 better than 7. So what’s your point?

10 is the primordial ooze from which all the current vile evil coming out of microsoft was formed.

I think it was Windows 2000 I had to install on a laptop for someone…

This was 20+ years ago, so I dont remember the details…but i think there was like 11-13 floppies for the install that I had at the time? All of them OEM floppies… I think from microsoft, but maybe from the laptop OEM?.. and every time I ran the installer another disk would fail, and i’d have to go online and find that disk image and burn it to a replacement floppy. It was the worst OS install experience of my entire life, lol. I think by the time I was done I had replaced all but the first oem disk.

Nah, 10 is the primordial ooze from which all the current vile evil coming out of microsoft was formed.

7 was faster, more convenient, less in your way, and just overall a superior product. No microsoft OS has even equaled what 7 was, much less be superior to it.

All windows after 7 was just a downward spiral of shittiness.

If numbers and statistics worked, People would have dropped this AI bullshit 6 months ago.

Thats good to know… before finding out about that just now, I thought Scepter was the only brand left that made dumb TVs.

Why should AI have to pay taxes when we have an ever increasing pool of poors, thanks in large part to AI taking their jobs, to increase the taxes on… in order to fund AI and to give tax breaks to the trillionaires?

and because there is inevitably going to be someone who fails to understand sarcasm, the heaviest of /s

and just like every other storage medium, it will last for eons…and die about .5 femtoseconds before you have a critical need to pull data off.

Yeah, but I think SATA is quickly being relegated to large mechanical storage drives. For things that don’t require performance, like storage and what have… because SATA is not getting any faster, I doubt anyones gonna come out with a SATA IV standard at this point, when PCIE over M2 is easier, simpler, and faster, and… outside of silicon shortage stupidities, getting cheaper and more affordable.

one of the many prices you pay letting a “Smart” TV connect to the internet.

Yeah honestly there’s no point adding meaningless chatter either

I like peas and mashed potatos.