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everdave
Nov 14, 2005
I need a link to that FISH shirt the only one that has ever made me laugh, need it

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HELLOMYNAMEIS___
Dec 30, 2007

everdave posted:

I need a link to that FISH shirt the only one that has ever made me laugh, need it

Here you go.

codo27 posted:

Lowtax posted a pic once in these shorts I think came from Japan with poo poo written on the front of them split across the two legs, with a crucifix under each pair of letters. Someone find those for me on Ali or wherever, I want them

Sorry, could only find these:

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
I'm going semi-commercial for my kitchen (mild popup restaurant plans) and have been eyeing this one on Amazon for a bit, just noticed it for a lot cheaper on ali

https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256805028206969.html

The Aphasian
Mar 8, 2007

Psychotropic Hops


Sentient Data posted:

I'm going semi-commercial for my kitchen (mild popup restaurant plans) and have been eyeing this one on Amazon for a bit, just noticed it for a lot cheaper on ali

https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256805028206969.html

When I worked food service we were using this to dice the tomatoes, for some reason there was two of us, the other teen pulled the stem, put the tomato on, I smashed and scoped the cubes into a bowl. She wanted to go faster and I said it seemed dangerous but she said no do it. As soon as we got a rhythm going she put a tomato down a little crooked, I went to smash, and then she reached back in to adjust it. I tried to stop, so didn't go full force, but the side of her hand and part of the palm got a blood grid. It wasn't even, so like parts were paper cut shallow but the meaty part went a little deep and the squares squished independently. For a hand wound for some reason it didn't bleed that much. She was fine, didn't even scar. Much better than when I worked at the factory and a lady put a sonic welder through the back of her hand.

About a month later I saw the movie Cube and the opening scene was especially visceral.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
This cutter thing doesn't like you change the cutting blade on the fly though. You have to unscrew it. It has space for ver 2.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
That looks cheap and flimsy.

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

not nearly OSHA enough, try this

https://i.imgur.com/VJc9D3y.mp4

(https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005267375678.html if you want to tempt fate)

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
That looks mad and I want one.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

Oh it's a more dangerous Bullet Express!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43VClzXOvg8

(3:45 for the most upsetting meatloaf you've ever seen)

Honestly the aliexpress one probably doesn't burn out the motor as quickly as the Bullet Express did

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

At restaurant, lost fingat

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS
Oct 3, 2003

What do you think it means, bitch?

super sweet best pal posted:

At restaurant, lost fingat

Just adding the ketchup early in the process!

I’ll track down that shirt. My iron giant one was not nearly big enough after a wash :( I just want cool cheap stuff

I just realized I ordered a large shirt from Temu, going to just write that one off.

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS
Oct 3, 2003

What do you think it means, bitch?
Here’s one:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_m0TfUdg

There are tons, just search AE for “of course I fish”

Charles Ford
Nov 27, 2004

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else’s Ford Focus.
Always fancied a skeleton watch, and decided I'd realise my dream by ordering a $12 one from Aliexpress.



Had it about a week, been wearing it continuously. It keeps remarkably good time, they definitely calibrated it at the factory despite it coming with a tiny screwdriver for adjusting the mechanism (no instructions on how to do so, or even how to open the case, though).

I will note that the black paint on the metal chainmail strap has already started to wear off. It took me a little while to actually figure out how to operate the strap, too.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
I'm starting to see mini-PCs with the new N100 processors popping up: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005278012514.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005254907818.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005200158913.html

I haven't seen these specific ones reviewed but you can youtube "morefine m9" for a similar one, tldr for non turbonerds is that it should be plenty for a "normal person" computer. Or in my case, replace an old tablet I've been using as a HTPC if I can get an 8/256gb for under $150 with some coupons or something.

e: missing words, wtf is going on

mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Mar 11, 2023

busalover
Sep 12, 2020

mobby_6kl posted:

I'm starting mini-PCs with the new N100 processors popping up: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005278012514.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005254907818.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005200158913.html

I haven't seen these specific ones reviewed but you can youtube "morefine m9" for a similar one, tldr for non turbonerds is that it should be plenty for a "normal person" computer. Or in my case, replace an old tablet I've been using as a HTPC if I can get an 8/256gb for under $150 with some coupons or something.

would love to see a review; one of these for the tv would be nice.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

busalover posted:

would love to see a review; one of these for the tv would be nice.

There's actually one for the Beelink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Gs3bPXtHc

As I mentioned there are a bunch of videos on the Morefine M9, which you can also get on aliexpress but it seem to be still more expensive for no reason, llike over $200 without any RAM/SSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atFViD1-R7o

The others I linked are certainly a bit more :iiam:

mystes
May 31, 2006

mobby_6kl posted:

I'm starting mini-PCs with the new N100 processors popping up: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005278012514.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005254907818.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005200158913.html

I haven't seen these specific ones reviewed but you can youtube "morefine m9" for a similar one, tldr for non turbonerds is that it should be plenty for a "normal person" computer. Or in my case, replace an old tablet I've been using as a HTPC if I can get an 8/256gb for under $150 with some coupons or something.
This is basically a celeron cpu and they just changed the naming since it's described as having "4 e cores and no p cores", right?

You can buy a used micro form factor ThinkCentre M900 with an i5-6500t processor for $80 off ebay, which I'm assuming is still going to perform way better than a celeron processor

(I don't actually know about the n100 so if it's actually vastly improved or if it has way better hardware video decoding that people think makes up for the performance for an htpc this might be wrong)

mystes fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Mar 11, 2023

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

Sentient Data posted:

I'm going semi-commercial for my kitchen (mild popup restaurant plans) and have been eyeing this one on Amazon for a bit, just noticed it for a lot cheaper on ali

https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256805028206969.html

Order was confirmed and then canceled later in the day for "security reasons", is that an automated ali thing or is the seller trying to get out of it? It looks like an actual brand's store rather than buying from UASENLYIU or whatever on Amazon, so I'm less worried about it being a scam seller

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

mystes posted:

This is basically a celeron cpu and they just changed the naming since it's described as having "4 e cores and no p cores", right?

You can buy a used micro form factor ThinkCentre M900 with an i5-6500t processor for $80 off ebay, which I'm assuming is still going to perform way better than a celeron processor

(I don't actually know about the n100 so if it's actually vastly improved this might be wrong)
Yes it's the new rebranded Atom/Celeron/"Intel Processor" but this new gen seems significantly improved, like actually faster than than the 6500t: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/20833775?baseline=20811683

You could probably still minmax something with used gear that's better price/performance especially if you want to stick a decent GPU in it, but at this point IMO this is a reasonable option for something new, small and low power. I actually do have a Sandy Bridge ThinkCentre just sitting around doing nothing but it's relatively noisy and power hungry and I'd need to buy a wifi card and SSD to get it usable and it'll take up a lot of space on the shelf so ehhh

mystes
May 31, 2006

mobby_6kl posted:

Yes it's the new rebranded Atom/Celeron/"Intel Processor" but this new gen seems significantly improved, like actually faster than than the 6500t: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/20833775?baseline=20811683

You could probably still minmax something with used gear that's better price/performance especially if you want to stick a decent GPU in it, but at this point IMO this is a reasonable option for something new, small and low power. I actually do have a Sandy Bridge ThinkCentre just sitting around doing nothing but it's relatively noisy and power hungry and I'd need to buy a wifi card and SSD to get it usable and it'll take up a lot of space on the shelf so ehhh
Huh I guess the celeron processors have finally caught up to older i5 processors so that definitely changes the tradeoffs and yeah that case it might make more sense to get a device using them once you factor in having to add wifi/ssd and take noise into consideration. It will be really nice if this means that more lower end devices using celeron processors like the "compute stick" style computers and cheap chromebooks have better performance now too.

mystes fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Mar 11, 2023

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

I've ordered one of the mystery machines, trip report when it gets here.
It'll probably end up running my 3d printer and some home automation stuff if the idle power is suitably low. Stupid raspberry Pi 4s are still sold out everywhere (or scalped for more than this thing)

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

r u ready to WALK posted:

I've ordered one of the mystery machines, trip report when it gets here.
It'll probably end up running my 3d printer and some home automation stuff if the idle power is suitably low. Stupid raspberry Pi 4s are still sold out everywhere (or scalped for more than this thing)


You're a brave goon :patriot:

Idle on these things is under 10w from what I've seen. Hope it works out for you!

AKZ
Nov 5, 2009

Sentient Data posted:

Order was confirmed and then canceled later in the day for "security reasons", is that an automated ali thing or is the seller trying to get out of it? It looks like an actual brand's store rather than buying from UASENLYIU or whatever on Amazon, so I'm less worried about it being a scam seller

Check your local licensing for selling food and equipment requirements before you buy too much if you intend to use the equipment in a commercial setting.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

AKZ posted:

Check your local licensing for selling food and equipment requirements before you buy too much if you intend to use the equipment in a commercial setting.

Thanks for the heads up, I didn't think of equipment sourcing as an issue, just sanitation and maintenance. For now I'm just doing food prep and making recipes at least, I figured I may as well make a menu before diving too deep since I may move out of state

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
I have a HP micro server N54 that was related 15? years ago. I put 5 full size HDD in it and use it as NAS and torrent plex server.

I have brought a couple set top mini pc since then but I also retired them because I don't need that many window thing running in the house. If it breaks I would buy another server box to stick it in the closet.

Funny thing is wintel box from 15 ago is working perfectly fine for the current download/streaming software requirement. It's got to be pretty old even for a car.

Thank you for listening to my old man Ted talk.

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


I just ordered an ebay thin client to run klipper on my 3d printer. It's not very fast but I don't need it to be.

With the insane cost of pi and pi likes it was hard to pass up something for 45bux shipped.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

mobby_6kl posted:

I'm starting mini-PCs with the new N100 processors popping up: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005278012514.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005254907818.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005200158913.html

I haven't seen these specific ones reviewed but you can youtube "morefine m9" for a similar one, tldr for non turbonerds is that it should be plenty for a "normal person" computer. Or in my case, replace an old tablet I've been using as a HTPC if I can get an 8/256gb for under $150 with some coupons or something.
ooh, thats awesome. I buy mini-pc's for installations a lot. those seem pretty nice spec for the price.

spiny
May 20, 2004

round and round and round
Re: reflective bag chat from a while back, I have started doing a lot more cycling this year to try and getr less chubby, and even though I have bike lights, I'm still apparently invisible, so I bought this to at least help a bit:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004819448743.html

mildly annoying that having just grabbed that link, it's now half the price I pad a few weeks ago :D

anyway, it's the usual ali standard quality - I wouldn't want to carry anything heavy in it, but been using it for the last few days and it's fine carrying my bike lock, phone power bank and gloves etc.

normal view:



daylight reflecting:



and taken with camera flash:



I guess the reflective coating will wear away over time, but it was cheap enough :)

DRINK ME
Jul 31, 2006
i cant fix avs like this because idk the bbcode - HTML IS BS MAN
I picked up an Orange Pi zero 2 with expansion board from ae, because I also can’t find any more pi 4.

I’ve messed around with it a little and it seems okay as not-raspberry pi goes. I think I’m going to try set up Birdnetpi on it, and if it works I’ll install it on a friends farm - as he gets so many better birds there than I do in my suburban backyard.

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS
Oct 3, 2003

What do you think it means, bitch?
I typed in Tecmo Super Bowl on AE just for a lark, I really did not expect to see so many NES cartridges for sale. I have to think they’re re-makes or something?

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

mobby_6kl posted:

Yes it's the new rebranded Atom/Celeron/"Intel Processor" but this new gen seems significantly improved, like actually faster than than the 6500t: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/20833775?baseline=20811683

You could probably still minmax something with used gear that's better price/performance especially if you want to stick a decent GPU in it, but at this point IMO this is a reasonable option for something new, small and low power. I actually do have a Sandy Bridge ThinkCentre just sitting around doing nothing but it's relatively noisy and power hungry and I'd need to buy a wifi card and SSD to get it usable and it'll take up a lot of space on the shelf so ehhh

Oh wow you have a sandybitch? :allears: Wow fire that poo poo up and play some 30fps Quake or something wow. Maybe it will arc if you give it enough juice and do some weird science poo poo or something. :jerkbag:

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

mobby_6kl posted:

I'm starting to see mini-PCs with the new N100 processors popping up: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005278012514.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005254907818.html, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005200158913.html

I haven't seen these specific ones reviewed but you can youtube "morefine m9" for a similar one, tldr for non turbonerds is that it should be plenty for a "normal person" computer. Or in my case, replace an old tablet I've been using as a HTPC if I can get an 8/256gb for under $150 with some coupons or something.

e: missing words, wtf is going on

Looks like these things support QuickSync which probably makes them excellent low power Plex servers with an attached NAS.

DRINK ME posted:

I’ve messed around with it a little and it seems okay as not-raspberry pi goes. I think I’m going to try set up Birdnetpi on it, and if it works I’ll install it on a friends farm - as he gets so many better birds there than I do in my suburban backyard.

What a charming project! Maybe I should make one of these for my Mom, she loves birds and gets a ton of them at her place.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Talorat posted:

Looks like these things support QuickSync which probably makes them excellent low power Plex servers with an attached NAS.

What a charming project! Maybe I should make one of these for my Mom, she loves birds and gets a ton of them at her place.

I use a beelink one for exactly this purpose and it works great. I got mine from Amazon and not AX though as the price difference was negligible.

mystes
May 31, 2006

Does anyone know what the deal with the n95 processor that some of the other models of these mini pcs have instead of the n100? It seems like it has like twice the TDP of the n100 but is cheaper (computers with it seem to be ~$50 cheaper than with the n100). If it's supposed to be higher performance it seems weird that the number is lower and it's cheaper but otherwise it's weird that the TDP is higher.

I can't find any good information but googling I found this speculation in a comment on a website which seems plausible:

quote:

> That would mean the CPU performance should be quite higher than the 6W N100 and N200 parts

Huh? IMO it means that N95 is the garbage scraped from the wafers that still somewhat reliably runs heavily overvolted. Geekbench seems to confirm this with N95 showing less than 80% of N100’s performance.

Since it’s in every area I would suspect N95 can burst to the advertised 3.4 GHz for approximately 13 nanoseconds to then drop down to safer values south of 3.0 GHz.

If so it seems like it would be best to avoid it it (better to pay a bit more for the computer to run quieter) but if the performance is somehow better than the n100 it would be more tempting I guess.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

mystes posted:

Does anyone know what the deal with the n95 processor that some of the other models of these mini pcs have instead of the n100? It seems like it has like twice the TDP of the n100 but is cheaper (computers with it seem to be ~$50 cheaper than with the n100). If it's supposed to be higher performance it seems weird that the number is lower and it's cheaper but otherwise it's weird that the TDP is higher.

I can't find any good information but googling I found this speculation in a comment on a website which seems plausible:

If so it seems like it would be best to avoid it it (better to pay a bit more for the computer to run quieter) but if the performance is somehow better than the n100 it would be more tempting I guess.

I can't really figure it out exactly either. In terms of performance they seem to be pretty much the same, there's just some variability in the geekbench results from OEM to OEM and based on conifg etc, but if you look at the higher end for both, they're within the margin of error: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/20833775?baseline=20830143

The only difference on ARK I can see is that the N95 has 16 GPU EUs at 1.4Ghz while the N100 has 24 at 750Mhz, which might be more efficient.



As for the TDP, my N5100 is nominally 6W and won't go above 8W even in Cinebench but you can go over 10W if you load both the GPU and CPU in a game for example, so it's kinda :iiam: if it even makes any difference


Talorat posted:

Looks like these things support QuickSync which probably makes them excellent low power Plex servers with an attached NAS.

What a charming project! Maybe I should make one of these for my Mom, she loves birds and gets a ton of them at her place.
Yep, and it will also decode 8k 60fps AV1 which is neat and completely unnecessary but nice to have in a HTPC situation.

The birb project is cool as hell!

Rexxed
May 1, 2010

Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

Speaking of weird computer finds on aliexpress, this tech youtube guy, Craft Computing, found that Erying is putting i9-11900H mobile CPUs on desktop motherboards with a copper thermal transfer block on top to make it compatible with desktop heatsinks:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804830279759.html

In the video he bought one of the $160 ($180 when I looked) engineering sample CPU models and they seem to only have those available bundled with ram and a SSD for $274 now, but they still have some of the $320 normal ones. He's got a follow up video about getting the memory clocks working up to 3200 (it's a bit unreliable it sounds like) and with some mild overclocks but that's pretty good for a low power 8 core.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR6AkUx-q8g

If you like to tinker with stuff and want a low power CPU that's different it's kind of neat. It's also kind of limited since it's essentially an unsupported configuration but it's cool that someone's doing something interesting with mobile CPUs. He's also got some videos on buying generic X79 chipset motherboards and other stuff from aliexpress.

everdave
Nov 14, 2005
LTT or one of his channels had one of these i9 laptop processors on a desktop board it was pretty interesting, seemed like a value alternative for some things

Invalid Validation
Jan 13, 2008




Im assuming those mini pcs are piss easy to install Kodi on like most mini pcs are? I’m needing something since raspberry pi’s have been non existent for years.

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

Invalid Validation posted:

Im assuming those mini pcs are piss easy to install Kodi on like most mini pcs are? I’m needing something since raspberry pi’s have been non existent for years.

Chromecast with Google TV might be a decent option.

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Rexxed
May 1, 2010

Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

Invalid Validation posted:

Im assuming those mini pcs are piss easy to install Kodi on like most mini pcs are? I’m needing something since raspberry pi’s have been non existent for years.

Yeah it just installs like an application for most OSes these days:
https://kodi.tv/download/

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