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His Divine Shadow posted:I don't use aliexpress a lot but holy poo poo it's search engine is bad, broken I would say. What the hell are the site designers thinking? Doesn't show anything remotely closed to what I was looking for, just stuff based on what I bought as if I only ever want to repeat my last purchase forever. I noticed the same thing a couple years back, and stopped using it. I'm not sure what they factor in now, maybe regional buying habits and other algo poo poo.
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the entire website is remarkably janky, when browsing the site from Norway they keep sending me to vi.aliexpress.com and randomly translating a bunch of text to Vietnamese 
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Nov 1, 2023 10:41
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Yeah the search seems to have gotten worse, and the new redesign is horrible overall too.Rahu posted:ORUSS watch review:
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It is quartz but so far it is on track to lose ~15 seconds a day so you might mistake it for being mechanical 
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Nov 1, 2023 11:13
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Anyone buying ali powerbanks: do they actually get close to the rated mah? I always thought they were just bullshit numbers, like with the torches that put our more light than the sun on a single 18650. Specific use case but I highly recommend this steam deck case. It doesn’t feel quite as solid as the genuine one that comes with it but still strong enough to take plenty of knocks or accidents and protect the deck. It also has an edge of the genuine because it has storage for power adaptor, cables and cards. It arrived really quickly, overtaking other orders in the post. I also picked up a couple little micro sd storage cases, I only need one but wasn’t sure which one I liked so I bought them both. They haven’t arrived yet so no feedback. It’s strange that I have a bunch of <=2gb cards that all came with individual cases but two very nice samsung 512gb cards don’t. Option 1  Option 2 
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Nov 1, 2023 11:24
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DRINK ME posted:Anyone buying ali powerbanks: do they actually get close to the rated mah? I always thought they were just bullshit numbers, like with the torches that put our more light than the sun on a single 18650.  So that's 62Wh capacity from a nominally 74Wh powerbank (20,000mAh) which is 84%. Pretty reasonable if you account for conversion losses and some safety margin. You have to do some due diligence though because there certainly are sketchy powerbanks claiming ridiculous capacities that are going to be fake. Brands like Xiaomi, Blitzwolf, Baseus or this Romoss are pretty safe though.
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Nov 1, 2023 11:40
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evil_bunnY posted:It's hard to make plastic lenses that pass UV tbh, you'll be fine. Whether they're worth a poo poo optically is another question. Yeah, this is what I'm hoping. I've had Ali sunglasses without problems, so I'm gonna assume it's the same thing but on a bigger scale
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Nov 1, 2023 12:06
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DRINK ME posted:SD card cases Now I'm curious: what need do you have for that many cards? Tiny dice arrived, they are indeed tiny  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005461380990.html
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My issue with ali is the search is getting worse. Any given search will give 2 page or less of relevant results and every page down I press on the keyboard gives increasingly wrong result. By the 4th page down I get 80% things either from my own prior orders or poo poo currently on my shopping cart, not what I search. And sort by price is getting worse. Like I used to be able to sort by price and buy the cheapest bluetooth earphone every few months, and is getting harder to this simple thing. So I have been buying from temu if they are available on temu. I just ordered a "12v 2.0 USBC charger" on ali yesterday. Parts like that you pretty much have to buy from ali or taobao, and even that specific search was almost broken.
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Nov 1, 2023 15:58
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It is like searching on youtube, after a few real results they start listing things they think you might be interested in instead of what you asked for. Standard engagement-boosting behavior.
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Rahu posted:ORUSS watch review: That watch is ugly in a boring way. For $7.99 get a casio.
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Yeah you can do way better/dumber than that on aliexpress https://aliexpress.com/item/1005005809881640.html  Make sure to tell the seller your local time zone so they can set the time before sending it 
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mobby_6kl posted:Yep last one I got was this one https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004222265233.html and tested it with an electronic load: By popular demand posted:Now I'm curious: what need do you have for that many cards? I could have probably bought a single 1tb or 2tb but when I priced cards the 500gb was much cheaper per gb than the bigger cards. I also have various other smaller cards I use in pi’s and the like which could theoretically go in a nice case but probably won’t.
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Sadly, that Romoss one doesn’t ship to Canada. Sort of suspecting none of them will…
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Baseus does, though I suspect slowly. Time to add to my collection and see if these ones will randomly stop charging on me.
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Subjunctive posted:Sadly, that Romoss one doesn’t ship to Canada. Sort of suspecting none of them will… Maybe check one of the other versions they have. This one seems to be shipping, so no idea what's going on there: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006043479362.html All my chinese poweranks still work btw.
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Been using a Baseus MagSafe battery pack on my 14 pro max. For the $20-25 it was it’s amazing I love it. Would buy another immediately if this one stopped working but no signs that it will and has been dropped, full of sand on the beach, used many days a week. Highly recommend
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Nov 1, 2023 22:18
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busalover posted:I noticed the same thing a couple years back, and stopped using it. I'm not sure what they factor in now, maybe regional buying habits and other algo poo poo. So how do people actually find what they are looking for on this site?
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Recently I search/find the word "sold" so that my browser marks them and it's visually easier to find the stores with most sales. And I only bother with the first page. I wish someone would come up with with an algorithm to just scrape the results according to parameters and display a short list.
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Nov 2, 2023 07:39
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The less words you search for, the better it works. "hammer" works better than "claw hammer hexagonal" works better than "claw hammer hexagonal head steel"
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Ali has a search paradigm where it will simply not return nothing if your search term is too specific. Put any search term in, even say "sdfgasd;kljgjkl" and it'll return results based on things you've bought or looked at. It won't say "No results found"
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Tarkus posted:Ali has a search paradigm where it will simply not return nothing if your search term is too specific. Put any search term in, even say "sdfgasd;kljgjkl" and it'll return results based on things you've bought or looked at. It won't say "No results found" Sometimes you also have to do a bunch of trial and error to figure out what weird term the Chinese will call something, which is sometimes entirely different from what it usually is called.
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You could probably find out what they call it by translating it in Google translate from your language to chinese back to your language
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Not sure what I've clicked on to suggest this, but Ali has decided what I need in my life is some 'German Meckum Racing Pigeon Special Speed'
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Rozzbot posted:Not sure what I've clicked on to suggest this, but Ali has decided what I need in my life is some 'German Meckum Racing Pigeon Special Speed' is it like a “fish antibiotic “ nod nod wink wink type deal
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Rozzbot posted:Not sure what I've clicked on to suggest this, but Ali has decided what I need in my life is some 'German Meckum Racing Pigeon Special Speed' Link please. Edit: Surprise surprise, "pigeon speed" does the trick. Edit 2:  Define "crystal clear". XYZAB fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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XYZAB posted:Link please. Define “explosiveness” when applied to pigeons.
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Clear like those decorative plastic crystals you helped your child glue to some craft paper. Also the same colour the toilet water were after the cleaner left.
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As long as my pigeons aren't angry I don't care what colour it is. ed: DRINK THE JUICE !!!  
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I just got a shipment from Aliexpress in 5 full days, ordered 10/27. It wasn't even guaranteed 15-day shipping. Edit: and I didn't read that it was 10 pieces so now I have 20 little right angle hose barb to m3 fittings when I needed two. Bondematt fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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It's got what pigeons crave!
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XYZAB posted:
“clear” means that light isn’t diverted within the substance, I believe, and “colourless” means that it, well, doesn’t have a colour so I guess it passes all wavelengths of visible light completely or so I recall from high school science with all those “clear, colourless liquids”
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His Divine Shadow posted:So how do people actually find what they are looking for on this site? You wait for someone else to find it and link it
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Everything on the official NHL shop is mostly ugly and very expensive. Decided to try my hand at ordering a couple things from DHgate after reading about some quality jerseys itt. I haven't received the jersey yet, but the hoodie, gently caress. Its not something you would wear for warmth at all, its almost like a track pant sort of material as my wife put it. Its see through. Cost me $50 with shipping, so I went back to do a return. I said I'm not satisfied with the quality, and they respond with some generic canned responsequote:Hello, this product is our best-selling product with good quality. What are you specifically dissatisfied with? Oh boy this oughta be fun.
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bowmore posted:You wait for someone else to find it and link it Then someone look up some C9 style american christmas light strings for me.
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My new magnetic charging cable was working great! Even if it didn't technically fast-charge, it never dropped into slow charging, and seemed faster overall than my previous one (which glowed blue from the magnetic end). I wrote a very favorable review. Yesterday I cut a tiny triangle of electrical tape for the tiny green light on the top of the magnetic end and the fucker stopped working entirely. Like, to the point that my tablet complains there's something wrong with the cable every time I connect it. Remove the tape--nothing. Check where it plugs into the power strip (I know it's getting power), flip the receiving end in my tablet's USB-C port--nada. gently caress! 
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yeah it’s funny that, got a 256gb usb that worked literally right up until the positive review, and i might just be fortunate but i’ve never had a usb catastrophically fail before, ever
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Cables can be very hit or miss. If it helps, my brother buys all his from the official Baseus store and he says it was all good so far. Also about searching: The way to shop on AE nowadays is to meander for hours while you've got time to burn, used to be you could use outside search engines but AE keeps updating to break this. By popular demand fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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