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Our customs office provides calculator for these. Basically, it's estimation based on the country's general rates that are given. Here's page for UK customs https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty. As noted there, standard VAT is 20% (which equals $6). But since VAT you pay for imports includes shipping and handling fees, store can't give you final number before shipping fee is calculated. Looking at the wording there, those fees will be paid on entry, not to store. But of that I'm not sure.

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Is it non-refundable shipping fee like what Amazon does or do they refund it with rest of the order? Making customer pay for return shipping is somewhat standard procedure. Especially if its international shipping. The difference with good and bad customer service comes whether they refund shipping fee or not.

There are already threads for setups And retro setups So there's no need for extra. But since the discussion isn't photo-based, this can remain open. For now.

They have support pages with FAQ already. Should be too hard to add couple more points about care instructions for different products.

For a company that criticizes others for not having proper support pages...

So? They need to verify which account is in question and what content has been posted. Thats very normal looking API connection notice.

An update to this has been several Youtubers and other organizations cutting sponsorships. Which is fine, I guess. But some of them are doing it in a way which is hypocritical imo. As the sponsorships have been both money and free hardware, not acknowledging that the equipment has been received for free during the time when this was active, or maybe even after investigation was finished and public. So these people have been enjoying same benefits as with sponsorship while pretending to be holy. I don't mind cutting ties, thats each own decision and I hope they have thought it through. But I find it morally odd to not acknowledge that there was/has been sponsorship and some equipment are from that. They could ofc pay up what is owed, but these people are as greedy as they are now accusing Jimms to be. So not likely.

Product page for the item. It's not very clearly said like with pictures. This is something they should add as support page for stuff that gets their product page taken down. Like Stealth sweatpants. I looked from another similar products page.

To me this sounds and looks like overreaction. There are Finnish companies which are still knowingly operating in Russia. Here there was middleman and Jimms doesn't seem like knowingly doing anything (which would mean knowing and accepting what middleman is doing and knowingly aiding in such actions, the difference is big if you stop to think about it). With exception of not checking further on the middlemen who were exporting to Russia before the war and continued exports after conflict began. From those sources, I don't even see mention about them being investigated or accused about wrongful actions. The middleman got not guilty verdict on export charges from lower court. Though I get that one would take another result. The wording, especially on io-tech article, makes it sound like its worse. Customs did investigate things and Jimms being the retailer, they were part of, but not main focus on, the investigation. There's also mention about "suspicion on drones ending in Russia", but thats from US putting the two main suspects on ban list. No proof, no direct investigations, no convictions. So other than admitting being scammed, not so bad.

Yeah, ok. I get what you mean. The thing with that video, and Short Circuit overall, is that unless its Dan checking out some cheap bluetooth speaker, its not going to be trashing look. Thats not the style. So there's that. Then its sponsored. Which is said clearly at beginning and shown in title. So you know going in its not going to be too negative. Those two in mind, getting some positive points where that product earns them doesn't seem that bad thing that they would need to take something down or apologize. Like, its not Dyson vacuum or anything like that.

If "could be better" and "ok I guess" are praises, then I'm living in different reality. And people are watching wrong channel.

Using machine drying might be the issue. Care instructions call for hang-drying. Material is polyester more than cotton.

its 3 days old, as in posted just before weekend. Today is Monday. I'm sure if LMG feels something needs addressing, it will be discussed on WAN next Friday. In meantime, since you have watched it and are upset, maybe give here a gist on what you dislike about it? You can additionally TLDR comment section on, I guess, Youtube if you like. Then we can discuss if others here feel the same or not. After all, this is discussion forum and criticism for LMG is welcome. As long as it stays within reason. E: Watched it. From Floatplane comments, I guess the issue is that its sponsored video and viewers think it received too good response than it should have. Considering it being sponsored is clearly said and marked, the comments of "good enough" and "ok", are imo fine. Overall this feels like another Playstation Portal, except this time its actually paid ad.

You don't think joking about things like that overall dilutes it? Watch the clip, its under minute. Then you can take a side if you so want. Like, I don't want TL regularly. But if there's something I need to check to know whats going on, thats not my loss.

-> Moved to Peripherals

You landed spot on the "didn't watch, but have opinion on content" bin. This was on Techlinked, not WAN. There's huge difference. One is scripted and edited, the other is live streamed. On WAN some things can be accepted as oopsies, like the hard R discussion, since it's live. But this had script which was read from prompter with scripted interaction and went through whole quality control process. Usually this is also my talking point. But here I argue against it. If the point of LMG channels would be to make suggestive and offensive jokes for adult audience, then sure. But it's not what they do generally. It's entertainment to teens and young adults. Of your examples, South Park was/is mainly 18+ in Canada. *sigh* It's not sexual harassment as is. It's joking about such. Similarly as saying "if this doesn't work, I'm gonna kill myself" is not threat of self-harming, but joking about it. Both are cringe, and something hardly needed to make news entertaining.

Its not, but its used as such and successfully so in some crowds. Again, my point may have been bit taking it too far, but thats how I read it. The core of my point is still whether the joke was required to make that part funnier, was it necessary at all, was the first part necessary and should these kinds of jokes be made for channels whose core audience is teens and young adults? The childish "69" jokes and other such are already, and have always, walked the line for me. I don't like it when teens do them, and like it less when men my age do them.

Intoxication is very often used as defense of the accused when those are investigated in this context. Hence my note. Sorry if it was too much for your sense of reality.

The timestamp starts where joke starts. There's two parts. First is about cheating at office party. We aren't talking about nuances of people's social life here. The first joke is about saying one thing (there are others at party) and taking its meaning as consent to do something else. The part right after that is the problem (use of alcohol and the very direct sexual reference with that). Considering the audience of the channel (teens and young adults), thats bit over the line imo. It might not be their worst, like there has been much worse jokes in past. But considering their aim to do better, this surely isn't it. E: Also people reading WAY TOO MUCH into this. Its still a joke, not recommendation of doing things. But was it needed or not? Did it go over the line? Those are the questions. Ofc people will take things differently. Remember this? Not all took that as bad joke either. Doesn't mean it should have been made at all or was required.

So I won't paste excerpt here because of its nature. But my timestamp starts with what it fine (to me). Its very old joke and tied in part to American higher end lifestyle of 90s and early 00s. Also portrayed in media of that era. Its also bit poor taste, but not worst and probably would have been fine (since its about lying/cheating and nothing beyond that). But latter part of that joke goes over, talking about intoxication and what men supposedly do when that happens. With the wording making it sound like what happens does happen regardless of the other person agreeing. While it might read out like that to all, being intoxicated has been very commonly used as excuse by men when they are investigated for sexual abuse during parties. You can search up some notable cases, some of them are too political to discuss here.

Renting is a thing. You could rent your owned property for media company for video shoot. So unless there's real reason to believe malicious activity, its not neighbors business whats happening inside property they don't own. And if they suspect illegal activity, there's proper ways to report about that.

Timestamped if anyone is interested. I must agree @LinusTech @LMGcommunity @RILEYISMYNAME, thats very poor taste your audience and recent events in consideration.

Considering worst that can happen is whole building, or parts of it collapsing, there's nothing really you can do with that. Mechanical drives are biggest worry. Rest will be fine, even if case falls over. Having air cooling and no glass side panel will help overall. But unless you have glass tubing, cooling will be fine. Side glass would need point-like force to shatter, so it will most likely be also fine. Besides bolting it to the building itself, and possibly making it shake with the whole building which is much bigger mass, you could have it on shock/vibration absorbing mat. Closed cell foam or stuff they use in cars to muff noise.