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Member Since | 26/10/2011 |
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>Now you can get a $19k 30.1kWh battery system for $5.9k thanks mostly to the new rebate $6k for a *30kWh* battery system? Where?

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lousy on Free Access to Grok Imagine (Image and Video Generation) for Grok Free Users @ Grok

Depends on what you upload, and what you prompt it to do. I've done some that look very fake, some that look absolutely incredible and you…

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Ozymandias on Free Access to Grok Imagine (Image and Video Generation) for Grok Free Users @ Grok

Grok Imagine is amazing. Turning your own photos into short movie clips is genuinely mindblowing.

MrFunSocks commented on Car Head Gasket Has Blown 6 Months after Service at Dealer - Does The Dealer Have a Responsibility
>Dealership ...... assured no future issues. The absolutely did nothing of the sort lol.

Or 3) you pay the daily fees, and keep the house until you can't afford the fees and then you have to sell the house anyway, at which stage…

Yep was recently in this position with a relative and they didn't *want* to sell their house to cover the lump sum, but if they didn't they…

>plus everything else they took from Mum, they made over $80K per year off her. You could also say that she paid $80k a year for round the…

>Once the house is sold, it’s no more inheritance to the OP. Well the money will be the inheritance - these aged care facilities don't…

Unless you are able to completely disconnect from the power grid *permanently* you *will* keep getting slugged with increased prices. Power…

People with batteries will be bent over too - power companies already charge people with solar like $1 a day *just because they have…

The biggest issue with frame generation is the input lag imo. I tried it on my 4070 Super and noped out and turned it off after a minute of…

Anyone who thinks that the power companies will be ok with making *less money* due to people using less power from the grid thanks to…

>Even in places like China where build costs and labour costs are low they are building more renewables than anything else. Have a look how…

Damn I was about to go do a price drop protectino claim but checked my Amazon account and I bought them for $1048 last year. Great cameras…

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Budju on Western Digital Red Plus 3.5" Hard Drive 10TB $339.02 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

The drive you linked to is $716, which if you can't do maths very well, is over TWICE the price of this 10TB drive. How is that a better…

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ab c on Western Digital Red Plus 3.5" Hard Drive 10TB $339.02 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

NAS drives vs every day computing drives.

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bamzero on Western Digital Red Plus 3.5" Hard Drive 10TB $339.02 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

I just checked on my older NAS where I move things when the "new" one is getting full - 70337 hours for 3 of the 4 WD Reds! The other one…

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cmdwedge on Western Digital Red Plus 3.5" Hard Drive 10TB $339.02 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

Thanks for the link! Very handy site to bookmark. It confirms this is the best deal WD NAS drive available so that’s good to know.

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Matt P on Western Digital Red Plus 3.5" Hard Drive 10TB $339.02 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

2 of my 4 are sitting at 39002 hours, 1 at 35620 hours, and the last at 33609 hours.

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Nukkels on Western Digital Red Plus 3.5" Hard Drive 10TB $339.02 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

I've got 4 of them in my DS920+ and they're not "loud" whatsoever. Maybe in comparison to some other drives like you said, but to say…

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UnrealMacaw on Gaming PC: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU, Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU, 16GB 3200MHz RAM, 1TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD, 500W PSU $778 + Delivery @ TechFast

Most people don't even need to activate windows these days, it's perfectly usable without it. Unless you're using Hyper V, Remote Desktop,…

MrFunSocks posted a deal Western Digital Red Plus 3.5" Hard Drive 10TB $339.02 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU
Good price on great NAS drives. While not all time low, getting anything close to this price per GB in NAS drives is near impossible. I've…

Price plays a part in how long is "reasonable" for it to last, correct.

Yeah if Sony products didn't have the sony brand name they'd have gone out of business by now. Almost all of their products are…

>OLED tech was never about panels lasting longer though, and I'm sure you know this. Quite the opposite actually - OLED panels were KNOWN…

>OP should concentrate on that not the discounted price they paid. What OP paid for it is more relevant than the RRP though. He can't say…

Yeah I do wish the ACLs would provide some sort of guidance for regular categories of products, by price point. You wouldn't really expect…

>I'd argue that OP bought a premium brand (Sony) They didn't really pay a "premium" price though, which absolutely is part of the equation…

Technically it's not a set 1 year either - under ACL it's a "reasonable amount of time" for the product that you bought. For electronics…

Can't hurt to try, but probably unlikely since $2k lasting 6 years is probably within the "expected lifetime" of a tv for that price.
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