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odiv posted:Sadly they didn't ask about pricing, just speed and availability, which has been adequate. Does it count as availability if it's not affordable to everyone?
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Going to kind of close the loop on my own question -- apparently Bell has no problem with me maintaining three PPPoE logins on my service. HH3000 is authenticated, my old EdgeRouter is using a PPPoE login and has been assigned a public IP. and now my UDM-Pro is using another PPPoE login and has a different public IP so I can configure it at my leisure before I plug all my home stuff into it. Pretty badass TBH. Theoretically I could just run two separate networks if I really wanted. No speed problems on the UDM-Pro. I know PPPoE authentication to HH3K via UDM-Pro used to result in speed decreases for some folks. I'm paying for 1000/750 and I'm getting 950/770 over two or three successive speed tests which is easily within margin of what I'd expect. Pretty happy all around.
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slidebite posted:Hey, long shot question and I'm asking here only because it's A bit late, but memory express resells old mini/sff PCs for pretty cheap. (330$ for i5-6500t)
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Like buying a rental car, I know I didn’t take very good care of my work MBP so I politely declined the offer to sell me my machine when I got my hardware refresh lol If by some chance we work together I hope no one in this thread bought it either 
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To be fair, theres no valid scenario in which someone should buy a mac
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if you don't read the canspam thread fyi memory express is now a real estate developer and buying up a bunch of properties to rent outcodo27 posted:To be fair, theres no valid scenario in which someone should buy a mac lol the windows 11 defender has logged on 
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w00tmonger posted:The real move is to buy office equipment when things get rotated wherever you work So we just bought an Asus AIO. It's actually pretty nice.
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https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Displays-Desktops/All-in-One-PCs/Zen-AiO/Zen-AiO-24-A5401/ Ryzen 5-5500u, 16GB and a 512 nvme Not much for bloat (although there was some) but easy enough to remove and seems pretty solid. Not a fan of the included wireless mouse/keyboard, but that was easily rectified.
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Well, you've already bought it, so whatever. Hopefully it holds up.
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codo27 posted:To be fair, theres no valid scenario in which someone should buy a mac The magic trackpad is vastly superior to using anything else. I stopped using mice they're so good.
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Trackball is the only ethical non mouse input.
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infernal machines posted:Well, you've already bought it, so whatever. Hopefully it holds up.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Trackball is the only ethical non mouse input. My orb pondering days are over. 
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mediaphage posted:if you don't read the canspam thread fyi memory express is now a real estate developer and buying up a bunch of properties to rent out I stopped reading the canspam thread when the mods didn't bother doing anything about the guy defending the catholic church in the context of residential schools
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Kazinsal posted:I stopped reading the canspam thread when the mods didn't bother doing anything about the guy defending the catholic church in the context of residential schools ok i don’t want to post about posting
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Kazinsal posted:I stopped reading the canspam thread when the mods didn't bother doing anything about the guy defending the catholic church in the context of residential schools I’m still so lost on who to buy from after NCIX imploded and I hated NCIX. 
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priznat posted:I’m still so lost on who to buy from after NCIX imploded and I hated NCIX. i like canadaram
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priznat posted:I’m still so lost on who to buy from after NCIX imploded and I hated NCIX. memory express
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less than three posted:memory express that's what precipitated this whole discussion, they are buying up a bunch of real estate and renting it out, so gently caress them
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less than three posted:memory express I have yet to buy from them but their website is pretty good. Seems like them and Canada Computers divvied up ncix store areas in the lower mainland. I just checked and am amazed to see Atic is still going, wild. That place had customer service that made ncix look good. Looking at building one of those alder lake systems and keep checking pcpartspicker for more matx z690 ddr4 motherboard options but not many!
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mediaphage posted:that's what precipitated this whole discussion, they are buying up a bunch of real estate and renting it out, so gently caress them Yet paradoxically they are the only ones not boosting video cards up above msrp. Every other computer store are bundle-loving shitters.
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mediaphage posted:that's what precipitated this whole discussion, they are buying up a bunch of real estate and renting it out, so gently caress them lol if you choose to fund and support extortionate canadian electronics retailers and pay more for no reason just because you don't like memory express diversifying their revenue streams allowing for actual competitive pricing and overall more stable business.
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i don’t support more companies buying up real estate no if you want to feel good about rising rent prices so you can get a dumb assed gpu go ahead
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I would rent a basement apartment from ASrock in heartbeat. But I wouldn't touch a glass wall new construction condo from Gigabyte with a Linux Tolvalds dick. edit: Realtek i rented a place for like 12 years that was ultimately owned by some smalltime fabric store in Rexdale via a Reit. I should have been entitled so so much free offcut yardage if i ever felt like showing up at their doorstep. shadow puppet of a fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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I usually buy from Best Buy or Amazon because almost nowhere else gives me free shipping. 
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mediaphage posted:i don’t support more companies buying up real estate no How are you going to be able to afford the increased rent if you also buy the overpriced GPU?
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Mine crypto?
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Let pcpartpicker do the work for you. God NCIX's website was such unmitigated horse poo poo
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What was ncix’s ugly step brother website where everything was a dollar less but sold under a disclaimer that you can go gently caress yourself? I never bought anything from them but was fascinated by their business model.
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shadow puppet of a posted:What was ncix’s ugly step brother website where everything was a dollar less but sold under a disclaimer that you can go gently caress yourself? I never bought anything from them but was fascinated by their business model. atic? I never shopped there but I knew people who did and described the staff regularly getting into screaming matches with customers in the store and such.
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That must be it. It was from around those waning Wild West days of computer retail where the common wisdom spoken online was to take a Chinese friend with you to Canada Computers so they’d not extra gently caress you over with re-wrapped defective product.
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priznat posted:I just checked and am amazed to see Atic is still going, wild. That place had customer service that made ncix look good.
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Ages ago (like early 00s) my sister’s bf at the time asked me where he should take his laptop to get it looked at and I gave him a couple options in YVR, and then said “definitely do not take it to ATIC” and he misheard me and took it there.  They held onto it for 3 weeks, didn’t do anything, and when he went to go get it to take elsewhere someone else came in and got into a literal fistfight with an employee over a similar repair situation. He just grabbed the laptop and gtfo while this was happening. Like, NCIX looked really good in comparison to atic in almost every way. Atic has to be some kind of organized crime money laundering operation or something. I don’t understand how it is still going.
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It's not "money laundering" for organized crime, it's diversifying the revenue stream  I didn't have any problems with them, but there was certainly a bit of a shifty vibe. Is that used computer/junk store still open on Canada Way just down the road from the Superstore? That was an amazing place in the mid 90s. You could get almost anything there from original pentium stuff (back when they weren't that old) all the way back to early 80s IBM junk. I think I even saw a bin of Amiga stuff at one time. Going back to my post about refurbs, I ended up getting a new Asus Zen AIO for Mrs. Slidebite and I must say I am fairly impressed by it. It's aesthetically a nice looking piece of hardware and the picture quality is actually better than I expected based on the specs. Ended up with a Ryzen 5-5500U and 16GB. Didn't even come with much for bloatware. Worst offender was McAffe (really, who actually uses that?) and it uninstalled without a hitch along with a couple of Asus specific apps. https://www.asus.com/Displays-Desktops/All-in-One-PCs/Zen-AiO/Zen-AiO-24-M5401/ I specifically wanted 16 GB in hopes that it would be 2x8 in dual channel, but of course it's a single stick Oh well, easy enough to fix and not super expensive. She'll be running it for years so I don't mind her having 32GB.The AIO is shockingly easy to take apart for user upgrade. As in, I was genuinely taken aback how easy it was. The back just snaps right off and there is immediate access to 2x PCIE m.2 slots and 1x 2.5" bays. Removing a small RF shield gives access to the Dimm slots. I was expecting it to be a real PITA to get at, but it's super easy. Only issues I didn't like are the included Asus wireless keyboard/mouse are not great what I would like but that's obviously nothing to rectify.
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slidebite posted:It's not "money laundering" for organized crime, it's diversifying the revenue stream i'm pretty sure an AIO you can do maintenance on yourself without an ifixit toolkit, magnets and $20 in adhesives is illegal under that new CUSMA or USMCA or whatever it is.
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I didn't know that was a thing. Cool. Added the RAM to it and it's now running in dual channel which gave it a 35% increase in 3DMark (demo). Actually pretty surprised at the difference it made. I knew it would be some, but it's very noticeable.
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ATIC?! Holy smokes that's a blast from the past.
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