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In news:quote:Alibaba Group Holding is carrying out a major revamp of the webpage of its flagship e-commerce platform Taobao ahead of China’s second-largest online shopping festival, as the internet retail giant bets on an improved shopping experience to regain business momentum. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/...pens-focus-user The foreign-facing sites Aliexpress and Lazada have already seen revamps, of course There seems to a coalescing industry-wide paradigm shift away from app engagement KPIs and back to real sales KPIs as the quantitative indicator, which suggests that the players no longer think that domestic or emerging-market mindshare growth (where mobile is the primary interface) is the main focus. Anyway, it's hard to compete with short video services for app engagement, no matter how many minigames you pack into your ecommerce app.
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I always wait too long to get on these drat sales, oh well. Hopefully those in the article pop up for global customers as well.
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May 7, 2024 07:58
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ronya posted:In news: Didn't know Ali owned taobao, makes sense
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May 7, 2024 11:40
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I've been ordering a bunch of odds and ends lately; idk if it's the sort of thing people care to see reactions on. I did order a knockoff lego set. I wanted to see how the quality felt, since I've got kids coming up who will be of age for that in a bit. Figured I'd do a test run. I ordered this guy for  https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805977450348.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.17.21e61802adaOI4&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa So far it has basically been indistinguishable from real lego. I'm not done yet, so I'm not sure if they managed to get every single piece in the box, but overall it's quite impressive. Much closer in quality to real lego than many other ali products are to what you might get from Amazon. The only hitch is that they didn't put them in ordered bags like official lego, so you spend a lot more time searching for pieces.
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May 7, 2024 15:57
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It would be nice if Aliexpress could invest like half a day into fixing their website randomly changing my location, currency, and language. I don't live in loving 3 Notch Alabama.
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May 7, 2024 20:51
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for me it somewhat randomly switches between english, german and dutch, even though i have it set to english
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sleepy gary posted:It would be nice if Aliexpress could invest like half a day into fixing their website randomly changing my location, currency, and language. I don't live in loving 3 Notch Alabama. The algorithm is trying to suggest places you might like.
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May 7, 2024 23:09
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I got arabic a few times. New York ip.
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May 7, 2024 23:21
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I'm impressed with the knockoff Lego sets. I get them for my kid. Works fine with real Lego and the kits have all been complete so far. Far cheaper. Even picked up a working v8 engine set for myself.
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May 8, 2024 02:23
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Can anyone drop a Lego set or two a six year old girl would appreciate? Keywords; pink, princess, pretty, etc. Ideally not lego friends stuff
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May 8, 2024 05:07
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the fukken Sakura tree
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PokeJoe posted:the fukken Sakura tree already have the real one
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May 8, 2024 05:13
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peacock https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/exotic-peacock-31157 Unicorn https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/magical-unicorn-31140 Puppies https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/adorable-dogs-31137 lots of flowers. I'm to lazy to look for them on aliexpress though.
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May 8, 2024 05:44
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well hell that was my only answer. if I was a little girl I would want uhhhh maybe like....a cat https://a.aliexpress.com/_mL4aQqi or maybe a kirov https://a.aliexpress.com/_m0ZoD5U
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May 8, 2024 05:44
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thanks gang !!
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May 8, 2024 05:48
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Payment hiccuped right at the end and all the deals dropped off. Forced me to cart refresh and my total was magically $30 higher than moments before. 😒 Guess I’ll be waiting for the whatever sales later this month.
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I just searched "pink princess lego" and got tons of castle and fairytale things. I just buy tons of cars and trains lego for my son though. Lego train tracks with the freaking train crossing portion.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Lego train tracks with the freaking train crossing portion. 
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I did order a knockoff lego set.  (LOZ mini bonsai accompanying a lego bonsai.)Yeah, I recently ordered and got a couple as well. (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005214776428.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.4.12f41802LxnUUq) And those were surprisingly nice, but a fair warning is that some sets/manufacturers have bricks that are smaller than standard lego. The ones in those kits were 75-80% the size of normal lego. Bought the bonsai and the succulents. The designs are really nice, a few pieces needed a bit more force to snap together, and some steps were a bit more fiddly than I'd expect with lego.Overall pretty happy with them. The only real complaints I have is that you pick from most of the bags at most steps, instead of 1-2 at a time like you'd do with lego. This brand is LOZ (mini), not sure if the mini refers to the smaller size of the pieces, or just that the kits are smaller <1000 brick pieces.
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Weird, that bonsai has tiny flowers. Where are all the pink frogs?
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May 8, 2024 16:08
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I've had my AliE mini NUC pc for a month now. No real issues. Using it as a mediaPC. I got mine without any storage or memory and got those locally. And got a win11 license from classifields. This store seems good as I've bought from them before. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005864472598.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.47.cd351802rR3FJN
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I don't "get" lego succulents. Why not just succulents? Aren't they extremely easy to keep alive? Water once a month or something?
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Also, top tip, use https://sdi-tool.org/ to sort out the drivers once you install whatever windows you need on it. If you use Linux then you are ready to roll 
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I don't "get" lego succulents. Why not just succulents? Aren't they extremely easy to keep alive? Water once a month or something? When your friends come over and their 2 year old beheads your Lego succulent, you can just put it back together again.
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Fools Infinite posted:Weird, that bonsai has tiny flowers. Where are all the pink frogs? Ugh yeah, that reminds me that I should see if I can order some pink flowers to replace the plague of frogs there. Kinda wish there was 1 tiny pink frog in the kit to poke fun at that.
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I have that little tree, got it for my wife, she ended up not digging putting them together, so I stayed up one night and did it while she was in the hospital. She didn’t much care, and shortly thereafter it got wrecked. Some of the connections for major components just weren’t too tight. Especially for the tiny sets I’ve started to think about supergluing when I run into those spots. Nobody is gonna re-use those (as opposed to my son, who so thoroughly dismantled the first stages of a star destroyer that the pieces are basically lost and I have 4/5ths of it sitting on a shelf with nothing to do with it). He does not have a single Lego set still in its original format. Makes me twitch a bit, but whatever.
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REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:I have that little tree, got it for my wife, she ended up not digging putting them together, so I stayed up one night and did it while she was in the hospital. She didn’t much care, and shortly thereafter it got wrecked. Some of the connections for major components just weren’t too tight. Especially for the tiny sets I’ve started to think about supergluing when I run into those spots. Mine does this, but all the pieces are still there, just sitting in a huge storage box. We have all the instructions too, but assembling anything would be a Sysiphean nightmare.
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REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:Some of the connections for major components just weren’t too tight. Especially for the tiny sets I’ve started to think about supergluing when I run into those spots. LMFAO they made a whole movie about this man
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He enjoys building the stuff usually, and had been begging for that set, so I was hoping he would at least build it through and get some satisfaction and pride out of it, but hey. We may have reached saturation point with legos, may have overdone it a bit, can’t recall having very many as a kid. But enough about my neuroses, let’s buy more cheap stuff!
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I don't "get" lego succulents. Why not just succulents? Aren't they extremely easy to keep alive? Water once a month or something? for any of these kinds of lego sets, the fun is more in seeing how they used lego to make a real looking thing and less the end product in most cases. for me, anyway. i built the mini plants sets and it's pretty cool how creative the design team gets when making a little pitcher plant or something 
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Mercury Hat posted:for any of these kinds of lego sets, the fun is more in seeing how they used lego to make a real looking thing and less the end product in most cases. for me, anyway. We have so many built and half-built models and storage boxes of bricks in the basement (and all the instructions, thank God). Now that my kiddo is going off to college, my dream is to find all the pieces to complete each set, then take them apart and store the bricks in freezer bags or something. It's so daunting a task that I doubt I'll ever get to it. I'll just buy more Ali tat for myself, I guess! 
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I see people reselling the complete sets with instructions for a bit, but also lots of people selling bulk legos by the pound or whatever too, so you’re not alone on that one. I think I’d have to find endless mundane piece sorting to be soothing or something to actually go through with that sort of project, but I know for sure pieces are already lost (like, big pieces).
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I think tackle boxes would be the best way to sort it? Tackle boxes and plastic drawers. Become one of those insane people with a lego room, and then find a site which lets you put in the sets you have, and gives you back different sets you can create based on the parts you've got. edit: https://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=707 Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 15:16 on May 9, 2024 |
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My son has hardware drawer/cabinet things. But he could care less about keeping it organized at this point (he’s only 7 though, maybe that sort of neurotic behavior appears later, haha). He just sits amidst piles/containers and thinks up stuff and digs for what he wants or something close. He’s probably way better on imagination there than me.
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My wife and her family all like lego but what they do is actually build what's on the box or the variations in the manual. They then either keep it assembled or put the parts back into the box. For me, that's not very interesting, never was. When I used to play with lego I would just empty the contents into a big box or sort them into small parts and big parts to be used in things I wanted to make. Do most people make what's on the box? Was it always that way?
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Tarkus posted:
There's 2 kinds of lego kid.
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Tarkus posted:When I used to play with lego I would just empty the contents into a big box or sort them into small parts and big parts to be used in things I wanted to make.  same
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I would build what's on the box, maybe the variations, then build whatever I could think of. All the loose LEGO stayed in a big denim drawstring bag. Used to be able to think up stuff like that... 40 years ago. It was an incredible thing when LEGO Technic came out, then the Expert Builder stuff.
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I built what was on the box and played with the finished sets. Until a few years ago, those models (mostly the OG medieval castle stuff, plus some town models) were still on shelves in my parents' basement, until my dad did what I haven't yet and broke them all down for better storage. Of course, my folks are retired and have plenty of time on their hands. My kiddo certainly built a lot of sets right off the box, yet somehow we have a veritable ton of loose bricks. (I can confirm that a tackle box is great for keeping more unique pieces sorted, but there comes a time you just, yeah, put everything in a big drawstring laundry bag or one of those big flat storage boxes that go under the bed. Or both. And then some. Oh, God, help me I'm drowning in Lego)
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I feel like I didn’t have a ton (where it would’ve been a pile of parts to build from). But I also really can’t remember. I was a build-and-keep type anyway (obviously). I’ve definitely been trying to make up for lost time before finally slowing myself down a bit now. Might’ve overdone it… The other cool Lego thing I found (Temu, I think) was a like a blanket that dumps into a bucket. So kids play on the blanket, it has an elastic pull line around the edge (I think) and it connects to a bucket, so at the end you pick up the blanket and dump the legos into the bucket. I think we got a Lego vacuum on Amazon or something too. Not brilliant but makes it so they get picked up sometimes REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS fucked around with this message at 16:23 on May 9, 2024 |
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