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Kharmakazy posted:I do need a new mp3 player, and I'm still the type of person who wants a dedicated mp3 player but hates apple despite currently using an old iPod touch. If anyone finds a cheap/decent mp3 player holler at your boy. Sign me up for one of these rockbox clones. Other models from this brand have Bluetooth and more onboard storage, and one even runs off an AA battery. But basic will do for my son till he needs/gets a phone (probably next year). I didn't check Ali since he needed this fairly quickly (school trip), but who knows?
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Shut up Meg posted:https://www.sandisk.co.uk/home/mp3-players I have a regular Sport and it does everything I need it to without issue. Great battery life.
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What is this guy a character from? https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32951888880.html
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Anne Whateley posted:What is this guy a character from?
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Over the Garden Wall
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ante posted:That's extremely interesting to me - do you know what the "best" rockbox device was? I do not, but I feel like the developers definitely would, and might be into that? It would be pretty rad if you could make this happen. https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevelopmentGuide
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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32846736301.html Picked up a few flexible nib fountain pens because jesus look they're so cheap the prices are what you usually pay for nibs here. The flow rate is a little low, might take a look at that, see if I can modify anything but otherwise seems decent.
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Dienes posted:I have a regular Sport and it does everything I need it to without issue. Great battery life. I found my Clip Sport while cleaning today. Haven't touched it in months, maybe even a year, still powered on with no issues. Claims to have about half a battery charge, even. Now if only I could find my regular not-bluetooth headphones..
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I think I still like the mechanical click on the QCYs but I’ve gotten used to the tap placement and timing for the Haylou set now so it’s not such a bother. The H fit my ears better and I get a louder, more enclosed sound from them. I bought the newer H pods with the bigger illuminated charging case (so I have three sets of buds now) and I’m happy with my purchases. Ordered 9/24, received 10/3 to east coast US. drat these are really nice. I do hate the touch feature, but whatever you only really need it to turn them on, I'm not pairing often or switching to mono mode. I got the Pro because I commute 3.5 hours a day and will need to frequently charge.  They showed up charged, it said to charge them but the 4 indicators were full and it turned off very quickly when plugged in, seems to be working great. You're right about the fit - holy crap, they're way better than anything else I've tried for my loud commute, and there's basically 0 chance of them falling out. They can't be seen from the front at all, so you look like a loving weirdo on the train nodding along to nothing, which I appreciate. Hopefully they can deal with getting slightly sweaty at the gym, I've had regular headphones start to slide out. Once watched a woman lean over to check if a train was coming and her AirPod fell out of her ear onto the tracks, so apparently it's a thing that happens. She looked very defeated and all of the employees were like "yeah.... we're not getting that right now" Another review for this thing, the smell proof bag I bought: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33006168273.html Weed is legal in my state, and neither of us minds the smell if you're smoking it, but this pretty much works as it says as a stash bag. If you're a bit lazy about lining up the dual velcro and it sits for a while the bag will very mildly smell if you like... hold it up directly to your nostril. But it works great for just stopping the "there's weed in this small space" smell. Anne Whateley posted:What is this guy a character from? Damnnn now I want some pins from Over the Garden Wall and Hilda (especially the woodman!!!) bus hustler fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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charity rereg posted:They showed up charged, it said to charge them but the 4 indicators were full and it turned off very quickly when plugged in, seems to be working great. You're right about the fit - holy crap, they're way better than anything else I've tried for my loud commute, and there's basically 0 chance of them falling out. They can't be seen from the front at all, so you look like a loving weirdo on the train nodding along to nothing, which I appreciate. Hopefully they can deal with getting slightly sweaty at the gym, I've had regular headphones start to slide out. Did you take the tiny stickers off the contact points on the back of the buds like I didn't?  You will get a loss of sound-seal when you work up some gym ear sweat, I usually pop out the bud and give it a quick wipe on my shirt hem and you're good for another half-hour. Not ideal, but I can live with it after my over-ear big headphones broke.
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There was a cute little drawing that said "STICKER" so I found them first. Good first commute in them, pretty happy with these for like $22, under $20 I think if you don't need the pro version. In no way does this feel like a lovely AliExpress product.
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Oct 4, 2019 13:31
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My backup Halloween mask arrived: I think I got high from the rubber fumes.
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Oct 4, 2019 15:00
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There's a IASIP pin of Danny DeVito as Ongo Gablogian! Somebody has to make the rest of the cast!
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Oct 4, 2019 15:15
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That mask is awesome, but I've always hated those stupid rubber masks - they are so uncomfortable.
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Oct 4, 2019 15:19
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My Xiaomi Mi 4 band came in. It connected to my phone and is counting my steps and controlling my music. Battery life seems really great, hasn't lost a % point in 16 hours of use. 30 bucks 
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Had my first Ali Fuckup. Bought my wife a cute wallet from a seller and they sent me a Game of Thrones Womens House Targaryen wallet. 
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My Mi Fit watch clocked me walking 50k steps in my sleep
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Charles Bukowski posted:My Mi Fit watch clocked me walking 50k steps in my sleep Check the local news?
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I think the vibration from my fan was enough to think I was moving? Swinging my arms fools it too. I reset it to factory default and that got rid of the false steps. Since its all done through bluetooth, I have no idea if I could install anything custom on it. The default app is pretty basic, and looking at the comments it seems they've removed the ability to load custom watchfaces on it which is a little strange. Meh, it checks my heartrate fine and gives me alerts.
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Charles Bukowski posted:My Mi Fit watch clocked me walking 50k steps in my sleep I have a Galaxy Gear S2 and while it's never been that bad, it'll occasionally congratulate me for a workout well done while I'm driving. No idea what's setting it off, but yeah, all smart watches gently caress up in one way or another.
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i finally got my first "product ruined due to careless shipping" order, what's the right way to handle this so i get a reship or refund and dont fall into "it got QCed, shipping aint our responsibility, appeal to one of the like 4 involved postal services" hell? already accepted it at the post office b/c the packaging is fine, it just clearly got badly overheated at some point in transit. Worth like $35, so enough to not let go but also not enough to get in an involved fuckin rigamarole over
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Message them and send photos, wait a few days then raise a dispute for the full amount if they don't reship (they will if you want ) Just beware that they always counter a dispute with $0 and say "sorry friend please cancel the dispute and we will reship" If you hit ok on zero dollars then AliExpress will close out the item and you will have nothing.
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tawal posted:So close What do you mean close, it is the ring. Goatseception™
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I got my frog pin! And reflected on how it cost like 1/10th of the cost of the smiley. (Get well soon, Lowtax!)
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I got my frog pin! You just reminded me I ordered four of them like two months ago. No sign yet 
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I bought four and gave three to the friends I go pub quizzing with. We are now the Toot-Toot Squad 
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Attention: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32999499824.html
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Idk what these pins are but all of them are great: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32970412029.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.51935dc9657SHS&s=p
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Pretty sure those are all rip-offs of pins sold on https://www.strikegently.co I've ordered from them before and they have sales on all the time so just support the original artists imho
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I got my Xiaomi AirDots in the mail and I figured that since they look 100% like they Haylou ones I can write an opinion. They sound surprisingly good! I'm surprised, considering my usual high standards regardin audio and the fact that they're 20 dollars for wireless earbuds, but I guess Xiaomi did make Piston 2s all the years ago, which were the top of the line under 20$. Very V-shaped sound but I guess that's the standard of Chi-Fi by now. The noise cancelling works well enough to make me not hear my pet rabbit jump on the couch behind me. Good purchase.
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goblin week posted:Very V-shaped sound but I guess that's the standard of Chi-Fi by now. Is that good or bad?
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Basically it means the bass and treble get accentuated more than the mids (which are usually vocals)! Whether it's good or bad is really a matter of preference and what music you're most likely to listen to. I kinda included a dig at the rest of chinese audio like KZ because a lot of the headphones people praise have, for me, really shrill trebles. I'm very sensitive to certain sounds though so ymmv.
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uhhh who do i call if i think my package is lost somewhere in either shanghai or san francisco? there hasn't been an update since it "left" shanghai on the 22nd
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Raskolnikov38 posted:uhhh who do i call if i think my package is lost somewhere in either shanghai or san francisco? there hasn't been an update since it "left" shanghai on the 22nd It's probably not really lost, it just takes forever sometimes  This was from banggood and I did contact their customer support which is generally pretty responsive but they we're like  it's on the way, wait.I don't think you'll get anywhere until it's been like this for 60 or whatever days, then you can open a dispute.
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It's probably on a ship, I normally give them a few chances to extend the dispute time before I ask for my money back. I've never not had a dispute settle in my favor and only one of about a dozen actually arrived some time later. I've had quite a few packages arrived 4-6 weeks after the normal dispute window. That's why I give them a good chance to extend it
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Also yanwen and one of the other poo poo ones have been playing bulk reshipping games with packages this year, Ive gotten packages with 3 layers of shipping notes for different Asian countries layered on top of the original one with the supplied tracking number. It took quite some patience to peel those stickers....
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I'm pretty sure that when it says "Departed by airline" from China, it actually means "Was put in the nearest container heading that way and won't leave until the container is full."
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norp posted:Also yanwen and one of the other poo poo ones have been playing bulk reshipping games with packages this year, Ive gotten packages with 3 layers of shipping notes for different Asian countries layered on top of the original one with the supplied tracking number.  This was a belt I ordered last year, took forever to arrive too. The banggood package above was an Android head unit that was shipped EU Priority Line (or whatever) that somehow avoided customs so I'm not too mad.
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Got the Haylou earbuds with charging case. They're very sleek for the price! Not blown away by the sound, but the fit is very good and they do get pretty loud without any hissing or popping. Biggest gripe is with the touch controls, which I'm still getting used to. Hard to take them out without accidentally activating a skip or something.
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Not a Children posted:Got the Haylou earbuds with charging case. They're very sleek for the price! Not blown away by the sound, but the fit is very good and they do get pretty loud without any hissing or popping. the touch controls are just as annoying as i expected, they stay in pretty well but even reaching up for a second to adjust the fit will sometimes mess with it. the sound seems equal to the previous $9 samsung "best under $20" headphones I was using but i am on loud trains or walking around a loud city 100% of the time I'm using these probably the worst case i've run into is putting them in and then running into someone I want to talk to, i wound up weirdly taking them out and sticking them in my pocket while still playing. turning them off manually is awkward.
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