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rear end posted:I got an Amazfit Bip cuz I wanted something simple for heartrate tracking. Battery life is really good but it is a laggy piece of poo poo, which shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Looks pretty good for the price. Hell, if it tracked swim laps I'd buy one.
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Captain Splendid posted:Guys, if you order some poo poo now you might get it in time to send it on to an unsuspecting goon for SASS... anyone going in on the 2019 YOSSanta https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33005611649.html 
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flashy_mcflash posted:Thanks everyone, I think I'm going to pull the trigger on it. I don't desperately need a new phone yet but probably will within the next few months, so I can tinker with the Ali one until my existing phone dies. mehall posted:This is correct, but I also knew a guy who kept one in his car because the battery would last for ages and ages and it would make a great backup. If that phone accepted SIM cards, I would totally buy one to be a hipster with.
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Sep 2, 2019 04:16
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Frank Dillinger posted:If that phone accepted SIM cards, I would totally buy one to be a hipster with. The one the guy I knew had had a nano SIM slot, but the one he'd had before was micro SIM so he just left the SIM adapter in there.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Tsk, the things you miss out on Reminder: order now for Halloween 🎃 https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/DORjt0o43
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eSporks posted:I broke my garmin again so I had to use the Amazfit for a while. It absolutely destroys my phones battery life. Can't even get through a full day. Yeesh. I've been tempted by the Amazfit but that's a turnoff. Early jawbones did exactly the same thing - reduced phone battery to 5 hours - because of syncing constantly. Don't suppose there's a option to set syncing frequency?
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Sep 2, 2019 09:59
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Maybe? The watch is super customizable, especially with 3rd party software. The software is also really finicky and unreliable.
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ante posted:It just seems silly to buy something that will work terribly for six months and then break, as opposed to buying a good tool that will last a long time and be a pleasure to use. This was the argument they made as well and the reason why I bought the one I did instead of the $30 amazon special. My rule of thumb with tools has always been that if I need a specialty tool, then buy the cheapo princess auto one. If it turns out I use it often or the lovely one is inadequate for my needs then I buy the good one when the lovely one breaks.
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I love that Princess Auto's home brand is called POWER FIST in order to counteract the Princess part.
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By popular demand posted:Just don't buy the memory card from AE. honestly, i did the forbidden thing and ordered some micro sd cards from aliexpress and uh, they're fine. they were "mixza" cards mostly (i think a sandisk too) and they all tested at the correct capacity and speed. one of them has been in my raspberry pi for about a year now without any issues at all. ur results may vary, caveat emptor, etc
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Sep 3, 2019 01:46
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Oddly enough, I bought a CPAP machine from Aliexpress. I have a bad snoring problem and it was cutting into my sleep. The same unit here in Canada from a local dealer is about $1700 and I got the exact unit for about $500 with a mask and everything. I titrated it myself and it's been working reliably for over a year now. There is good stuff on Aliexpress but it's usually the less popular stuff that is actually any good.
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Tarkus posted:Oddly enough, I bought a CPAP machine from Aliexpress. I have a bad snoring problem and it was cutting into my sleep. The same unit here in Canada from a local dealer is about $1700 and I got the exact unit for about $500 with a mask and everything. I titrated it myself and it's been working reliably for over a year now. There is good stuff on Aliexpress but it's usually the less popular stuff that is actually any good. Cpaps aren't paid by your insurance after a sleep study?! Cmon, your body is too stupid to breathe, why do have to pay for that
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Sep 3, 2019 04:24
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Cpaps aren't paid by your insurance after a sleep study?! Not always. Canada has universal healthcare but that doesn't cover every possible expense, and lots of people don't bother getting supplemental insurance. The stuff that isn't covered mostly isn't the sort of thing that will drive you into medical bankruptcy, and medical expenses that aren't covered are usually eligible for a tax credit. If you are poor enough more things can be covered. If you're right in the middle where the tax credit won't help you but you aren't poor enough to get the cost covered I guess discount chinese gear could be attractive. Diabetics are always complaining that they have to pay for their own needles while drug addicts can use needles at the Safe Injection Site for free. If you suggest that they could also go to the safe injection sites to inject their insulin with free needles they get real mad.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Cpaps aren't paid by your insurance after a sleep study?! Like Facebook Aunt said, not all insurance pays for it. While I get paid well at my job, my insurance is bottom of the barrel.
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I was in the same boat. Sent for multiple sleep studies but even my work insurance wouldn't cover the whole cost of a CPAP rig (I think they were going to cover ~$700 out of $2000). I have really borderline apnea though so maybe that's why. Never even occurred to me to check Ali for that but if this cell phone purchase works out maybe I'll look into a breathing machine
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In Canada, you can buy a whole CPAP rig (the same one they loan out for a month trial) for around C$900 online at any number of places like here rather than the minimum C$1700 clinics will want. All you need is a prescription from your doctor. If you know your settings, you can have them program that in for you. If you don't, there's a handy video on how to access the pro settings. Also, the Ali t-shirt place that sent me the wrong design appears to have delisted their shop. They have read my messages, but no response for three days now. It's not a huge deal--I've paid too much for t-shirts at concerts plenty of times. I ordered another $240 tube preamplifier from a reputable shop, so I'm not soured on Ali yet. I don't have the guts to drop several thousand on vaguely B&W 802 speakers ($14000-ish? for the real thing), though. Douglas Dinsdale fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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I imagine they're more for people who don't have insurance in the USA, so otherwise they'd be paying maybe over a hundred for the first doctors visit, maybe a few hundred for the O2 monitor + followup to get the sleep study approved, and then the sleep study itself runs $600-5000 a night according to statistics and that's before the cpap without insurance so $500 vs best case scenario $1500? + gas and waiting time could be as much as $25,000+ worst case scenario?
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Facebook Aunt posted:. If you suggest that they could also go to the safe injection sites to inject their insulin with free needles they get real mad. Well yeah because thats loving stupid. Needles should be covered wtf.
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Douglas Dinsdale posted:In Canada, you can buy a whole CPAP rig (the same one they loan out for a month trial) for around $900 online at any number of places like here rather than the minimum $1700 clinics will want. Thanks for the link, it confirms I've been getting hosed. I have secondary insurance that covers CPAP equipment at 80%. The last mask I bought was over $200cdn so I've been trawling Ali just in case I could find a replacement for less than my deductable.
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Sep 3, 2019 06:27
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If you are american, you can apply for this https://www.sleepapnea.org/community/cpap-assistance-program/ For a "donation" of 100 dollars they will give you a last generation used resmed cpap. Your doctor's office can usually help you apply. Highly recommend.
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I want to build a PC from Aliexpress parts just to do it as cheaply as possible. Cleaning out the PC Cafe grime would make it a fun project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPM5o9xzOA&t=47s It's pretty hilarious that the Radeon RX470D was the same as a more powerful RX470 but with firmware limitations, and just flashing the firmware would improve the graphics card by something like 6%. 
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:If you are american, you can apply for this https://www.sleepapnea.org/community/cpap-assistance-program/ That is super awesome but I really have to question why you need an Rx for one of these... like using it cant kill you and I can only assume the reason is because the companies want to keep the price of these astronomical.
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Toxic Mental posted:I want to build a PC from Aliexpress parts just to do it as cheaply as possible. Cleaning out the PC Cafe grime would make it a fun project. Long time lurker of this thread; I know nothing about building PCs, but seeing one entirely built from budget Aliexpress parts would be totally cool. Provided it doesn't overheat and explode or something.
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boostergeist posted:Long time lurker of this thread; I know nothing about building PCs, but seeing one entirely built from budget Aliexpress parts would be totally cool. Provided it doesn't overheat and explode or something. Ashens did one out of Wish.com parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMIOhoUcCM It was more expensive than buying locally and the extremely budget GPU was still a fake.
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Weird timing, I've just been on a YT kick about this kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlR1LVMREf4 How about a new motherboard that uses chips that Intel hasn't manufactured for years?
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boostergeist posted:Long time lurker of this thread; I know nothing about building PCs, but seeing one entirely built from budget Aliexpress parts would be totally cool. Provided it FTFY and that's exactly what I expect from this. Please be careful, this thread already had people trying out death implements and I don't think we've had casualties yet?
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Reminder: order now for Halloween 🎃 Halloween chat: hows this for a meta and cheap outfit?  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32849342692.html
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bar88537 posted:Halloween chat: hows this for a meta and cheap outfit? Stolen Squalor
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Geemer posted:It was more expensive than buying locally and the extremely budget GPU was still a fake. Lol, that's disappointing but not unexpected.
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The Bloop posted:Stolen Squalor username thread
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Using Aliexpress to build your PC is pretty safe/cheape depending on where you live. Usually RAM/CPUs and coolers are safe parts to order, altough the cooler's box WILL be damaged when it arrives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5J2jTJ1Dik&t=533s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2iDQBxD92E I'm currently waiting on my RAM sticks, gonna buy either an R5 1600 or R7 1700 this week. Mobo and cooler bought locally since they're not really worth importing.
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Stink Terios posted:Using Aliexpress to build your PC is pretty safe/cheape depending on where you live. Usually RAM/CPUs and coolers are safe parts to order, altough the cooler's box WILL be damaged when it arrives. A friend of mine bought some Kllisre DDR3 memory from their official Aliexpress storefront to squeeze some more life out of his old computer and it was legit good.
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Geemer posted:A friend of mine bought some Kllisre DDR3 memory from their official Aliexpress storefront to squeeze some more life out of his old computer and it was legit good. The actual memory chips only have 3 manufacturers: Samsung, Hynix and Micron. So no matter which brand of RAM you buy, you're getting one of those and it's gonna be at least decent.
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Well, this is fun. One of my orders was stuck in an airport for over a month, and suddenly the tracking updated and said it's been delivered around a week ago.. uhh nope. Also bought a pair of  pins, and they're at Istanbul right now? That's new.Stink Terios posted:[...]altough the cooler's box WILL be damaged when it arrives. Geemer posted:A friend of mine bought some Kllisre DDR3 memory from their official Aliexpress storefront to squeeze some more life out of his old computer and it was legit good. Oh hey, me too. In my case it was DDR2 memory and LGA775 cooler and yeah, the cooler was sent in it's own box so it looked pretty beaten up when it arrived. Works fine though.
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Stink Terios posted:The actual memory chips only have 3 manufacturers: Samsung, Hynix and Micron. So no matter which brand of RAM you buy, you're getting one of those and it's gonna be at least decent. That's true, but it's a question of whether the quality of the chips is Actually Meant For Sales, Night Shift Was On Duty At The Packaging Factory, or "Engineering Samples." The performance and stability could vary hugely. Source: I was a DRAM manufacturing engineer for a while.
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TorakFade posted:FTFY and that's exactly what I expect from this. Please be careful, this thread already had people trying out death implements and I don't think we've had casualties yet? That guy who tested out the grinder blade of death hasn't posted since. 
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Trabant posted:That's true, but it's a question of whether the quality of the chips is Actually Meant For Sales, Night Shift Was On Duty At The Packaging Factory, or "Engineering Samples." The performance and stability could vary hugely. Good to know! I will test speeds and latencies when I get my rig up.
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Finally, a workout brand for me. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32964642118.html  
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Also, looking forward to my summer holiday tan https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000040454814.html  
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