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attempting to purchase a computer product in 2023 and everything is out of stock. i look up what would be a good computer component or peripheral to buy, and decide which one to get, and go to the jungle site or the chicken site and all they have is the shittier version i already decided i don't want. computer case, out of stock. here's the lovely hosed up case for idiots, at 2x msrp tho. oh you want video graphics acceleration? well how about a Very Gross Andbad. computer mouse for $40? out fo stock but here is a mouse, the animal. ships in 16 weeks from china , all sales final ive had it just about to here with this computer CRAP
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that sounds like a lot of work to procure something for you to gently caress and come in
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Dec 28, 2022 13:39
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what you end up doing is going to the manufacturer's site, finding what is close enough or a revision of the model you want, and buy that one cause its in stock but not in the generic pc parts picker db for some reason
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Dec 28, 2022 16:53
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they have tons of poo poo at my local microcenter op
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Dec 28, 2022 17:13
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:they have tons of poo poo at my local microcenter op i went there just the other day, microcenter owns. if you can dodge the sweaty league of legends playing store reps it's a smorgasbord of good deals
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Dec 28, 2022 17:21
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I have found the local reps very helpful in the past few times i've been there! plus im fine with letting some dude skim his commission off the top of my purchase the philly one has a bunch of 3d printed pokemon statues all over the place so maybe they just play better games over here
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Dec 28, 2022 17:24
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microcenter owns hard
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Dec 28, 2022 17:25
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Beeftweeter posted:microcenter owns hard Especially now that Frys is gone....
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Dec 28, 2022 17:55
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post the funniest local CL ads you got
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Dec 28, 2022 18:01
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i have access to a wide range of goods and services op 
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Dec 28, 2022 18:06
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Build your case out of stacked 4080's
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Dec 28, 2022 18:08
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Jonny 290 posted:post the funniest local CL ads you got "It melted my power supply!"
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Dec 28, 2022 18:11
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actually we're in 2022 op
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Dec 28, 2022 18:12
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Jonny 290 posted:post the funniest local CL ads you got lmao. i had a student one year trying to make his project out of the garbage scrap wood from the junk bin. i told him he needed to buy something better and sent him off with a list of the quality hardwood suppliers in the area. the next day he came in super pissed that i had "made him spend 80 dollars" to buy a chunk of wood from home depot (not one of the suppliers i recommended) for his project. he showed me a 3/4 x 6 x 24 maple plank. i asked him how the hell he spent 80 dollars on that. he said he had to take an uber down and back. i asked him why he didn't take the bus, which has a stop at school and at home depot. he looked at me goggle eyed and said he couldn't be expected to carry construction supplies on the bus. i then thought about it and asked why it cost 40 dollars each way? the home depot is a lot closer than that. he said that he had to go to the farther home depot because he went to the near one first and they expected him to cut the wood himself with a hand saw. i think he eventually dropped out of the program. probably for the best
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Dec 28, 2022 19:05
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what other suppliers are there than Macbeath? and the store in SF closed :-(
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Dec 28, 2022 19:10
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i know  macbeath in emeryville is still fine. moore newton is the other good one. and woodcraft for small stuff
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Dec 28, 2022 19:17
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Sagebrush posted:i know going across the bridge? ugh. I always end up at hd pro unless i need something that isn't 3/4"
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Dec 28, 2022 19:25
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yeah it sucks that there's nothing in the city limits anymore. fortunately i can put my stuff on the truck bringing the school orders to get free delivery 
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Dec 28, 2022 19:49
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Sagebrush posted:the next day he came in super pissed that i had "made him spend 80 dollars" to buy a chunk of wood from home depot (not one of the suppliers i recommended) for his project. he showed me a 3/4 x 6 x 24 maple plank. ...as in 0.75" by 6" by 24"?! 
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Dec 28, 2022 19:50
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:...as in 0.75" by 6" by 24"?! i mean most of the $80 seems to have been spend on cab rides so
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Dec 28, 2022 19:55
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I'm really boggling at "you can't take construction supplies on a bus!!!" with a small plank of wood that would easily fit in a backpack
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Dec 28, 2022 19:59
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lol or a big tote or something. kid's dumb
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Dec 28, 2022 20:24
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I'm really boggling at "you can't take construction supplies on a bus!!!" with a small plank of wood that would easily fit in a backpack i was too also that he was so put-off by the idea of cutting a board to length himself. the conversation was something like "i had to go to the far home depot because at the near one they wouldn't cut it down for me." "huh. that's weird. were they super busy?" "yeah they just gave me a saw and said to cut it myself!" "...okay....and you didn't?" "it was like a SAW. you know a regular saw. not an electric one." "a hand saw?" "yeah!" "well, sure, they probably wouldn't let you use a power tool. why didn't you cut it?" (goggle-eyed) "by HAND?" "yes?" (stares) "a board that size would take like 2 minutes, if that." "...well i'm buying it from them, they should cut it!" etc some people. idk
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Dec 28, 2022 20:28
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meanwhile i bought a 2x4 foot hunk of ply for my desk and needed it ripped down to 18" on the narrow side, flagged down a kid and was all "hey can you take six inches off the side here?" "oh, <mumbles> we're not allowed to make cuts less than one foot" i was all aw man! well okay thanks anyways his manager walked by and said "spencer, its fine, go ahead and do the cut" awesome, thanks so much! yall have a good night
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Dec 28, 2022 20:30
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some students really have trouble accepting that hand tools exist and work well and you don't need electricity to do everything. one time i found someone trying to start up the plasma cutter to cut off a chunk of 1/4" mild steel rod. it would have taken 10 seconds with a hacksaw
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Dec 28, 2022 20:31
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Sagebrush posted:some students really have trouble accepting that hand tools exist and work well and you don't need electricity to do everything. one time i found someone trying to start up the plasma cutter to cut off a chunk of 1/4" mild steel rod. it would have taken 10 seconds with a hacksaw hand sawing sucks
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Dec 28, 2022 20:37
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its fine. let the saw do the work. people pay money to go lift heavy things in a gym and then whine about cutting a piece of wood
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Dec 28, 2022 20:44
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Jonny 290 posted:its fine. let the saw do the work. people pay money to go lift heavy things in a gym and then whine about cutting a piece of wood I need to start lifting again. maybe then I can saw
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Dec 28, 2022 20:45
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My new hand plane is backordered to the end of january. Civilization is collapsing before our very eyes
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Dec 28, 2022 20:48
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I really need that 4090 that won’t fit in my computer case.
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Dec 28, 2022 21:28
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I'm really boggling at "you can't take construction supplies on a bus!!!" with a small plank of wood that would easily fit in a backpack he was afraid someone would film him and do a viral tiktok dunkin on him like "the mf takin some drat wood on the bus lmao"
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Dec 28, 2022 21:30
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akadajet posted:hand sawing sucks hacksawing is fine up to like 3/4" rod
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Dec 28, 2022 21:31
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I’m surprised there isn’t a microcenter in Austin
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im surprised microcenter even still exists. they've been gone from the bay area for at least a decade
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Dec 28, 2022 21:51
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hasn't been long since my hand saw a 3/4" rod
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Fortaleza posted:My new hand plane is backordered to the end of january. Civilization is collapsing before our very eyes
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Dec 28, 2022 22:04
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making a krenov style handplane is easyish and good fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqSwjTTpYqE
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Presto posted:From here on out it's scavenging plastic forks like in Fallout. duke nukem 3d was a playable documentary
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Dec 28, 2022 22:09
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Sagebrush posted:also that he was so put-off by the idea of cutting a board to length himself Do you think there could be an element of anxiety? Like "I have never used a hand saw, what if I do it wrong in the middle of the store"?
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last time i hand cut some boards at home depot, some old men had gathered to watch and told me they were surprised to see someone so young with excellent saw technique 
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