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Hey, it finally came! Ordered in October, I think? Shipped around my birthday last month. Feels premium. Love how tight the tolerances are & how the bits don't seem to be shit & want to strip screws like the bits on my other ratcheting screwdriver do. Was it worth the $$? Time will tell. But it's a well-built tool. Something I am always a fan of & want in my arsenal.

Probably your local hardware store maybe.. I mean motherboard standoffs are just a standard size hex bit, so you'd just need whatever that is that fits the 1/4" driver socket..

The 2060 showed up today. 100% unopened with factory stickers in place. I quickly broke those bad boys to investigate further. Yep. Seems legit. I'll stick in a system sometime later this week to confirm it works etc, but it's weird that the seller let it go so cheap when it was new old stock.

Eh, my ISP gives me true unlimited… My household uses more than a terabyte a month of data… Currently, I've used 1.1 TB of data and still have another 14 days for the month of my current bill.

I just managed to score an EVGA 3060 XC Gaming 12GB non-LHR for $330 AUD ($227 USD), which seems like a steal as I can see the same card for over $700 AUD new from various retailers & on US eBay the cheapest buy it now was $320 USD. Edit: I also managed to score a brand new unopened EVGA RTX 2060 XC Ultra for $300 AUD ($206 USD) which from what I can see is what used ones are going for on eBay.. If I can get my GTX 1070 to work again, it would mean I have 4 EVGA GPU's at my disposal.

Had both the cases I bought turn up.. My NAS went into one (i5 6600k, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1070 & 7.5TB of storage) & my current PC went into the other.. Downside is my 1070 seems to have died, so i'm running the iGPU, and the 7600k I had has also died thanks to the previous owner delidding it & not reattaching the IHS to the CPU, thus getting liquid metal in places you don't need it..

Just picked up 2 V6.1 Ncase M1's one in Black & one in Silver. Gonna replace my V5's. Scored them for a pretty good bargain $300 AUD all up, and both come with every single accessory which is nice, as neither owner used any of the other bits that come with them. Now just to wait til they turn up. I will probably sell my V5's to recoup some of what I just spent.

They have done that in the past. They have reviewed a few budget TV's mostly TCL, this was like $500 USD…

They aren't even that cheap. An entry level iPhone 14 Pro is something like $1800, A Glaxay S22 is almost $1500 & The Pixel 7 is $1000 in Australia. I remember when these phones were half those prices for the top tier ones, not the entry level flagship from these brands.. Pretty sure my iPhone 13 Pro Max 256gb was something like $2200..

Mine has started to move!

You're god-damn right i'm an enabler. Haha. They don't seem to get it, most of our supply chain, at least at a store level relies on the just-in-time delivery method.. The supermarkets here get daily deliveries for every department & rarely have any real overstocks out the back unless it's something that was on special that didn't sell.. My favourite i'd be in a totally different shop, in somewhat work attire with a name badge on (usually a brewery shirt of some sort) & i'll get asked for something, usually it's the supermarket that our is a sister brand of ours.. I understand being accosted when I go to places like JB Hi-Fi on my days off cause I usually wear band shirts & look pretty casual like their staff. But the fact I wear thongs instead of shoes should be the giveaway I don't work there haha. It's honestly kind of fun in a deranged way. Maybe i've been doing this far too long haha.

If you had the questions I got on a daily basis, you'd understand. Just a snippet of what we get on a daily basis. "I want 6 wines, do I take them from the shelf?" it's a small store with no store room, I've even had customers argue that I have an "out the back" or they think we carry every single line in a carton ready to go at a moment's notice. Customer walks in stands in the door which is next to the chilled wine "Do you sell any cold bubbly?" my reply "Did you look in the wine fridge?" Another daily exchange. "I just want a cold 6 pack of x beer" "Yep those 6 packs are in the coolroom on your right" "No I want a 6 pack" "Yes those 6 packs are in the coolroom on your right" "But I only want a 6 pack" Store wide open, door unlocked, lights on, and usually serving someone "Are youse open yet?" "You guys got any soft drink?" "We do, bottom shelf of the wine fridge on the right hand side" everytime customer proceeds to go to the far left of the fridge for some unknown reason.. Customer staring at the buy one, get one free for $20 wine deal "So how much each are these?" I guess the big A4 sign that says buy one, get one free $20 meant nothing. My favourite is the specials that require our loyalty card to unlock, they stare at the price ticket which is in bright orange & see 2 prices, one that states for loyalty members & one for those without the loyalty card. Had one bloke blow up at me the other day because he didn't have one & still paid for the bottle of scotch, then told me he could get up the road cheaper. I had already informed him it was only the cheaper price with our rewards card, to which he said he didn't have. Then he decided he wanted a refund. All to save $5. I can guarantee that "up the road" was our warehouse brand that is 6km up the road, so thanks for keeping the profits inside our group. Another classic whilst wearing a name badge & shirt that have our company's name on it "Do you work here?" multiple times a day, I might be the only person in the store with them when they ask this. Another I get multiple times a day "Do you have a Woolworths Rewards Card?" to which I usually get "Where am I Coles or Woolworths?" and they proceed to pull out their Coles Flybuys card.. It's all marketing. My girlfriend can be bad for buying into some of it.. I've gotta remind me her sometimes that she isn't saving any money, they're just getting her to increase her basket size.

Love Rich & his 2 channels. Learnt a lot about diesels thanks to him.

Me too..

I have 2 HomePod Minis (got them for a bargain from my telco) I use them as speakers for my AppleTV and that's it. Sometime I use them for music but that's pretty rare. Never used the Siri feature on them, as I have no need.

As someone who manages a retail store, I have noticed pricing like $49.99 or $49 is way more attractive to customers, than say a flat $50. So from a marketing perspective, rounding up seems silly for pricing as customers aren't the brightest & seeing something start with a lower number even though it's the same as the bigger number realistically brain tells them it's the better deal.

My missus gave me a $100 gift card to Sunglass Hut for Christmas as I was saying I was thinking of buying a new pair of sunnies. So originally $300 AUD, on sale for $220, found a discount code for $50 & with the gift card I was out of pocket all of $77 because shipping wasn't free for some stupid reason.

I've never known people to get so triggered over a thumbnail.. I judge if I want to watch the video based on the title usually.. Not the thumbnail.

They look fine in 4K on my 4K TV playing from my AppleTV 4K.. But I am also several metres away from the TV so things look fine at that distance. I watch in 1440P on my PC and again, it's fine. I don't notice any image quality issues.

Finally bit the bullet. Will be here for my birthday at the end of Jan in theory. $147 AUD is a bit of a sting. But considering the price of the competition here, it's still a fair bit cheaper..

Do you have a screenshot? Because I have no real clue what you're referring to. If you mean the little favicon in the tab? Then that's the LTT logo, or do you mean the shopping cart icon that indicates where your items sit when you want to buy them?

Whee. Upgrades! Wish I realised that the motherboard didn't support sata M.2 before buying, now I have a spare 1TB sata M.2 that I planned on using from my old PC.. Oh well!

Just got this for the girlfriend for her birthday this week.. I now kind of want it for myself..

Tasmania. So many of my mates write it off, but it's probably one of the nicest parts of Australia. Beautiful scenery, lovely people. Things just seemed a lot more chill down there. Also they had a lot of great food & alcohol.

"new" wifi card (right) for my MacBook Air as the bluetooth stopped working. Old one has corrosion on it (left) WiFi worked fine, but it stopped the BT working all together. $10 on eBay & it works flawlessly & now BT works again so I can use my AirPods & AirDrop.