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C.M. Kruger posted:https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000623428696.html when you really really need to save $20 on the gun-seed you will be putting $500 more in parts on
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Facebook Aunt posted:I have never been so tempted to times are tough, embrace orb
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taqueso posted:when you really really need to save $20 on the gun-seed you will be putting $500 more in parts on i mean why not, if you're building a ghost gun buying the 80% from a shady overseas supplier adds yet another layer of obfuscation for your untraceable firearm
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But wait, there's more! Ever wanted a mushroom cloud for your night table? Of course you have! https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000936477682.html How about a motherfucking rocketship?  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000013902474.html My house could be so cool/tacky! For, uh, my children of course. Children I totally have. Yep.
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Has anyone bought jigsaw puzzles on Ali Express? I don't need them to be in a box, which would seem to jack up shipping costs. I don't see anything on there I love, so I figure it's not really a thing.
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taqueso posted:That Saturn v lamp is pretty cool I’d be worried about tripping around it and impaling myself, personally
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1redflag posted:I’d be worried about tripping around it and impaling myself, personally Think of the cool story at the hospital/funeral though.
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Betazoid posted:Has anyone bought jigsaw puzzles on Ali Express? I don't need them to be in a box, which would seem to jack up shipping costs. I don't see anything on there I love, so I figure it's not really a thing. Yeah jigsaw puzzles are one place where quality control is actually pretty critical, and I don't think it's possible to do that cheaper than Ravensburger does already.
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I have a 5 or 6 year old Nighthawk router, which works OK, but I'm working from home over Zoom... Would I be insane to get an AX3200 router on Aliexpress? I'm thinking Xiaomi has one for $120, and that's a real brand, but the software is apparently all in Chinese. Amazon has a TPLINK AX1500 for $90 -- and I don't have to gamble on shipping, language barriers, etc.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I have never been so tempted to This orb is fuckin cool as hell gently caress it was $14 bucks I ordered it. Hopefully it’s cool
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It's just 3D printed and one of my friends 3D printed one and made it into a lamp I'm jaded as all hell but it was loving cool
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1redflag posted:I’d be worried about tripping around it and impaling myself, personally 
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Facebook Aunt posted:How about a motherfucking rocketship? Their world class designers appear to have missed the fact that the shuttle's own engines should also be firing.
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It's going to show up in one of those "weird objects stuck in butt" story compilations isn't it?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I like the Challenger lamp. Jerry, please.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I like the Challenger lamp. lol not AliX but I was emptying out cupboards looking for something and found this tote bag that I have absolutely no recollection of buying: 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol not AliX but I was emptying out cupboards looking for something and found this tote bag that I have absolutely no recollection of buying: It's a shame they don't sell this at the NASA gift shop.
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1redflag posted:I’d be worried about tripping around it and impaling myself, personally That's why I'm hanging a dozen from the ceiling.
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Facebook Aunt posted:But wait, there's more! Ever wanted a mushroom cloud for your night table? Of course you have! Oh my God I need to get that mushroom cloud. Would be perfect on my Fallout shelf.
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Any suggestions for low-key cyberpunk face masks? I feel like it's about time to lean into it. Ali/UK. 
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Shipping has gone up to non-Ali levels. I hope it only has to do with logistics being all out of whack and isn't a permanent change. I don't want to pay $6 shipping on a $7 cruet, even one with an integrated mixer.
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Hirayuki posted:Shipping has gone up to non-Ali levels. I hope it only has to do with logistics being all out of whack and isn't a permanent change. I don't want to pay $6 shipping on a $7 cruet, even one with an integrated mixer. I'm finding Aussie ebay pricing is leveling and in country. Plus I can be a d-bag when they switcheroo and the item isn't actually in Sydney. Claim it to ebay as false listing and also mention that it is the duty of care for ebay to make sure sellers aren't drop-shipping from China etc. They (ebay) really rear up and agree refund quickly.
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Saw these while looking at the shuttle lamps, they're adorable! #Aliexpress US $3.90 36%OFF | 2020 New Arrive Astronaut USB LED Night Lights For Home Helmet Switch Night Lamp For Work As Children's Gift Space Man Lamp https://a.aliexpress.com/_dXSRkNt
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NuminaXLT posted:Saw these while looking at the shuttle lamps, they're adorable! The little aqua-naughts are great, they have flippers!  Also they have Environmentally Materials!!! 
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LifeSunDeath posted:Have the same headphones You're not the first to say that  The DT-990 Pros are the best headphones I've ever owned, and a definite pro buy.
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theflyingexecutive posted:I had a bunch of stuff that I ordered in March just stuck in China, anybody else? Same here. No update on the tracking for a month plus, but it'll all get here someday... I hope.
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theflyingexecutive posted:I had a bunch of stuff that I ordered in March just stuck in China, anybody else? Yep
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theflyingexecutive posted:I had a bunch of stuff that I ordered in March just stuck in China, anybody else? I got something on Friday that I'd ordered in February! 
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Yup! I had something show up on Friday that I ordered on March 4th. The tracking info hasn't been updated since March 16th (if that's even a legit tracking number..) but somehow it got here. Slightly banged up and cheaper-looking than I hoped, but that's how it goes. Still waiting on a pillow case I ordered in mid-March, though.. That one's been "Package rejected,unable to ship by air" at least twice now. A bunch of stuff I ordered off eBay from Japan has been held up too, but the sellers have all been pretty easy to work with, offering refunds or alternate shipping methods or whatever.
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I need to get some decent pillows that don't turn into horrid lumpy sausages the minute I slide down a bit in bed, any suggestions for sellers/or what to look for?
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C.M. Kruger posted:I need to get some decent pillows that don't turn into horrid lumpy sausages the minute I slide down a bit in bed, any suggestions for sellers/or what to look for? Not loving Aliexpress jesus.
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C.M. Kruger posted:I need to get some decent pillows that don't turn into horrid lumpy sausages the minute I slide down a bit in bed, any suggestions for sellers/or what to look for? Considering the goon community, I can't believe I'm the first to mention this, but have you considered pillow mods? Forget about those expensive, off-the-shelf premium pillows and build your own pillow rigs that have the qualities that you desire. Heck, some of those fancy commercial pillows should be avoided for their outright theft of components and ideas that were developed in the pillmod community. Notably, Serta's FaceHugger line was recalled entirely after they realized the looming PR disaster that a bunch of sleep nerds would incite. I've been into pillow modding for a few years now and have managed to improve my sleep efficiency index from 0.69 to 0.85 (I'm a class 4b sleeper). You can build a full-featured pillmod for less than $100. Hell, I've made a half-dozen models and not spent more than $200. Before you start modding, you should heed the standard warning and check if you have sleep apnea or anything medically obstructive. Sure, your vanilla pillows are probably annoying to sleep on, but sleep apnea could be compounding the issue by permitting minor annoyances, like pillow temperature, to wake you easily. More importantly, a few people with pillmods have died while sleeping. Although many of us doubt the involvement of their mods (people who enter the community are prone to sleep issues in the first place), it's still good advice to follow. If you do have sleep apnea, then pillmods should be hugely advantageous. In fact, the pillmod community began around sleep apnea machines (CPAPs) and their inconveniences, especially for those whose preferred sleep postures are obstructed by CPAP facepieces. The earliest mods involved simply cutting channels into memory foam pillows, and then using freezer gel inserts to cool the pillow. They would also have to reinforce the channel so that the weight of a person's head wouldn't crush the air tubes. But now, especially with the availability of Arduino kits and cooling systems intended for electronics, there are hundreds of pillmods that you could complete in a few hours. It seems like most people are drawn to do PCS projects for their first mods. That's fine, but be aware that the better PCS (Pillow Coolant Systems) typically are of moderate difficulty or higher. They are also costly and time-consuming, relative to other mods you could start with such as glowmods, larms, and just simply modding a pillow's material and shape to your headspace. Here's my first glowmod larm, for example:  This is a good starter mod combination because people like it for light therapy and smooth awakenings. The pillow gradually gets brighter until your wake-up time. You can also set it to gradually get darker at night. It's the adult version of those Glow-Worms that infants love. But if you are dead-set on a PCS mod, I suggest strongly that you forget about those flashy, complex pillmods that involve watercooled networks of capillaries or, even worse, active heat sinks (such as piezoelectric heat transfer plates). Instead, opt for something silent, passive, and/or battery-based. For example, I have build a mod called "The Vulcan Nerve Pinch" that will get you about 20 degrees F in cooling delta on soft air ducting alone. Yeah, that's not much, but don't be the guy who blows $300 on his first project and builds a pillow that gives his face hypothermia on the first test run. Once you get some basic know-how, and you're beyond the flashy mods and ready for something purely functional, check out shape or volume mods. These will actively keep your head at the perfect elevation. JB_Artgow is well known for his expertise in this area. I'm using his Face-Lover v3 mod (Affectionately also known as "Face-Fucker v3") every night. That's where Serta hijacked their FaceHugger brand name from. Allegedly. The Face-Fucker involves inflation and deflation of semi-rigid water bladders to redistribute the pow's volume. It sounds complex, but it's easy if you buy a parts kit. It uses a silent pump and osmotic gradients to work. You can calibrate it based on both your head's weight and angle. Unlike many other volume mods, this is one-mod-fits-all, so you don't have to design around your giant noggin. Artgow also has a ebook on Amazon (It's only $2), with instructions for something like 100 mods. He doesn't make money on the book, but he does make a few pennies if you buy parts kits from him directly. This beats the poo poo out of finding a Radio Shack that still stocks diodes and capacitors. Now I'd like to brag for a bit and talk about some of the more exciting, extreme pillmod possibilities, some of which I just warned you against doing. I'm in the middle of building a custom, arduino-controlled pow with about 12 different mods. Although piezoelectric coolers are all the rage right now, I'm sticking to good old fashioned microducting for cooling. However, I'm using infrared LEDs for heating. The latter are normally expensive, but Dealextreme sells them in bulk for cheap. I think they're sold out recently thanks to jerks like me, however. I don't like a warm face. The heating mod is just for camping in the cold or when I want to use the pillow as a heating pad for sore muscles. Also: sheer awesomeness. Here's a schematic (not mine):  As for straight-up ducted cooling, the next image is my take on how one spiderwebs their coolant ducts. You have to be careful here not to bend the tiny tubes more than about 60 degrees or put them in a position where your noggin might bend them. That might look complex, but I used only 4 channels with a coolant turnover (in this case, just water) of 2 seconds for the entire surface to cycle.  By the way, medical tubing works just fine, but make sure that it's both flexible and a directional heat conductor, like Vekspan, which is used for anastomosis. If you buy non-direction stuff, hose down the pow-side with some plastidip from your hardware store, or just throw down a layer of aluminized cloth. The lovely crinkly stuff costs a whopping $1 at Dollar Tree, labeled as an "emergency blanket." You can pilfer the softer stuff from a BBQ apron. Once this thing is done, I intend to stress test it by running both the heating and cooling systems and letting them fight it out to the death. Of course, in a battle of the PCS vs PHS, I suspect the PHS will win and then torch my pillow. This pillow is directional, obviously. Because I can't flip it over, I've build the base and core layers from flexible expanded polystyrene and ceramic fibers, which will probably give me mesothelioma eventually, but drat if I won't be well rested at least. I was inspired by a dude who made a low-rent version of aerogel so that he could win an award for "Lightest Pillow" at Pillowcon 2010. My pow, without the mod gear, weighs 2 ounces. Now, uniquely for me, because my bed is up against a brick wall, I need a pillow that can deal with a little bit of moisture. I like the brick wall for it being a huge heat sink, but it causes moisture to condense on pillows, especially fancy modded ones. This problem is solved by the combination of my core layers and a rechargeable dessicant. During the day, the dessicant tumbler is turned and heated, thus expelling moisture. It's so powerful that it'll suck the sweat right out of my massive head, but at least I'll never again have sweaty pillows. Speaking of which, at Pillcon 2011, I was the massive fucker who won the door prize of John Cezrik's faux rabbit fur surface:  You'd think that such fur would be irritating against your face after a half-hour or so, but Cezrik's material has microcapillaries built to certain OCT ranges (OCT is optimal cheek temperature). It's like sleeping on a cloud of baby buttcheeks. Speaking of babies, I actually enjoy the sound of water pumping through the coolant tubes right next to my ears. It's very soothing. Babies, apparently, are calmed by the sound of water swishing in your mouth right next to their ears, and that's what this is like. Also being built into this pillow o' mine will be some alarm aromatics. Not only can I wake up to a gradually-brightening, sunny pow, but the aroma of my choice (Bacon) can also waft out. And if the gentle sound of the water pumping isn't soothing enough, I've got three speakers and the Arduino can easily generate some white noise or play sounds of various environments like the motherfucking ocean. I prefer low-range, soft brown noise. I'll have none of that hissy poo poo that store-bought machines put out. The nice thing about having noise generated in your pillow is that the sound doesn't permeate the rest of the room. So if your significant other likes a dead quiet room and you need some noise, this is a fine solution. Of course, all those mods result in an awful lot of wiring:   That's enough pillmod talk, I suppose. gently caress it bitches, let's glow this joint:  If this kind of thing appeals to you, there's also the blanketmod community. However, I tend to stay away from them due to it being populated by perverts who essentially make sex toys out of their comforters, which they call, obviously, "cumforters." Pillmodders are, in essence, nerds who are poor sleepers. Blanketmodders, in contrast, cut dick-sized holes in blankets with anime patterns on them and think they're engineers. There is, however, a clever mod that came out of that community that involves a mere $30 in parts and makes your bed vibrate like the "magic fingers" machines found in crappy motels. It's really just a few off-balance weights powered by scrap motors, but entertaining. If nothing else, that and your pows should be enough to get anyone into your beds, you creeps. Anyway, I'd like to hear what any goon pillmod pals have done.
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