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They are offering, and advertising, a warranty as a value-add service to entice people to buy from them. Additionally, they charge $95 to…

I worked in IT for 30 years. Housing and hinges are listed as hardware items for ordering FRUs, and are listed in the hardware section of…

The vendor website declares that their products have a 12 month warranty against “any unexpected hardware failures" for customer peace of…

The term “refurbished” is simply being misused to confuse used products with manufacturer-refurbished ones that do have parts replaced…

The stated grade in the link is "Refurbished - Grade A". However, there is no mention of which parts were replaced in the refurbishment,…

The item is listed as having a 12 month warranty. This should cover any issues that arise through normal use. It shouldn't matter whether…

I certainly wouldn't open a laptop that way, but I imagine most laptops would survive it unless excessive force was applied. It would also…

I did the same with my modded 3DS. The more games I had, the less time I spent playing games. In the end, I’ve mostly gone back to using…

Congratulations! There are always statistical outliers. I can't see any noticeable difference between games running at 30Hz or 60Hz, so I'm…

I wouldn’t worry about ProMotion… the flicker-fusion threshold of the human eye varies from 60-90Hz depending on the individual. People…

If you're using iCloud private relay or another privacy service, you often see this. Similarly, if your ISP uses CGNAT, it can be…

This is tempting just as extra compute for a home lab. The 32GB RAM and i7 will be pretty decent for a Proxmox node, and laptops have the…

To be fair, the original comment referred to a "big credit card bill" that "you will struggle to pay off", so I don't think it was…

On the other hand, I have 20 year old automatic watches that still work well, even without servicing. I doubt my Apple Watch will still be…

Here's a HomeAssistant integration using the local web server running on the LinkTap hub:…

LinkTap's hub uses standard MQTT and HTTP interfaces. LinkTap has fully documented these. Right now, you can use them entirely locally with…

I'm really happy with mine. I went through a variety of cheaper tap timers over the years that had issues (one failed open, leaving the…

Yep, nobody had heard of them before that at all. Here's hoping TikTok can do something for the Beatles to pluck them out of obscurity.

The mid-70s was the peak era of Hipgnosis, so it's probably not even the strangest album cover of 1977.

The advantage of buying this vinyl version is that you need to manually lift up the tonearm to loop tracks, encouraging you to stand up and…

Sell it on Temu or AliExpress with a deceptive description for a few dollars. Most people won't bother to go through the refund process…

Except what they're giving you a taste of is mostly poorly-made, disposable trash that doesn't look anything like the product image.

I agree, my objection is to the repeated internet claim that Macs manage memory better, making 8GB magically sufficient in cases where it…

You may only be using 8GB, but many people have workloads that need more (video editing, memory-hungry software development tasks, running…

The costs of raw materials for batteries is plummeting right now. This is actually hurting the battery-makers and car-makers, as they…

The Model 3 LR has a battery warranty of 8 years or 192,000 km, so I'd expect that it will last at least that long. I'd hope it would be…

Target has gone down-market, but so has Myer. To my mind, Myer is now what Target used to be.

Within our family, we’ve had very high end and very low end rice cookers. So I at least have a basis for comparison. The kind in this…

If you’re a regular rice eater, you’re probably better to get a decent cooker. We make one or two batches of rice per day, and I really…

Raspberry Pis are fantastic for edge cases that only apply to eight people in the country. But there are many different edge cases.…