When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt cheap new in box Dell Wyse 5070 machines to see if we were right. Spoiler: we were.
@LateNightLinux OFC you were - just like @heiseonline@ct_Magazin were when they bought some #Fujitsu#Futro Thin client with a Celeron J4105 in it, to the point that these are nowadays completely jacked up in pricing on #eBay.de ...
Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was sacked by the #ABC "after a coordinated campaign by Jewish lawyers over her work on Gaza.
"Lawyers for Israel coordinated an effort to get Lattouf fired, [saying, eg] 'It is important ABC hears not just from individuals..but specifically lawyers so they feel there is an actual legal threat'."
Lattouf cited Human Rights Watch on Israel “using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war in Gaza”
@DrALJONES
We have difficulty taking the ABC seriously these days.
Our (supposed) #nationalBroadcaster is served by #Akamai, a US-multinational that rose to prominence with its partnership with M'Soft in the late 90s.
Akamai serve #ebay, #esty and a lot of large #departmentStores in Australia, and even some #banks. Alongside CloudFlare and Amazon, there are only two banks not being intercepted at the encryption/decryption level.
@SheDrivesMobility Wahrscheinlich genauso wie ein Auto aus z.B. chinesischer Produktion zu fahren. 🤔
...oder andere andere neuere Fahrzeuge jeglicher Marke. #Software#Navi
Das Problem lässt sich ja leider nicht auf den "Posterboy" des Medien- und Macht"adels" reduzieren.😒 #VWHistorie#ota#Amazon#Apple#Meta#ebay#iot ....
Another W for the boys! 👏 Wearing my #Winnipeg#Christmas sweater today in celebration of #Xmas & last night’s win. It hasn’t been cold enough lately to wear any sweaters with temps reaching close to 60F / 16C. It’s starting to get a little colder here in #Maryland .. but it’s coming too late. #XmasEve#MerryChristmas#ChristmasEve#hockey#nhl#MD
I brought this back in 2017 ish on #eBay .. it was one of those “ after #Christmas sales “ they had. I strongly suggest it hit up eBay after #Xmas for any vendor who are marking their inventory down. You might find something that’s near & dear to your heart.
Der US-Onlinehändler Ebay streicht die Belegschaft weiter zusammen. Das Unternehmen verweist auf zu hohe Ausgaben im Vergleich zu einem eher schwachen Wachstum. Dazu kommt die harte Konkurrenz.
Just bidded and decided to forget it, I was expecting to lose that auction just because that CD is so pursued by collectors. Was a big surprise to see that notification! No one else bidded besides me!
Waiting now! #EBay#CCM#HeavyMetal#CompactDisc#MusicCollector#MusicLover
I’m upgrading my garage ethernet network so maybe some down time on the solarcene.community #solarinstance. Pleased with myself as instead of jumping to am&zon I went on #eBay and got a 8 port network switch #secondhand . It was missing the power adapter which is fine as I’ll be rigging it anyway to run off 5V (it’s a TP SG108 and I’ve already got the 5 port version which works fine off 5V with a little modification).
Means I can finally put in place my plans to automate the #mastodon instance
Like many of you, I deleted my #twitter account because I couldn't tolerate the hateful policies the company was embracing.
Now I'm going further, cutting off other companies and platforms for similar reasons.
First up is #facebook. I've had a largely dormant account to keep a contact channel open with those who keep using it. It's not worth it any more. If there's anything which requires a facebook account, I'll just do without.
I've never had a #Spotify or #Uber account. I have no #Apple or #Microsoft products. My phone is completely de-googled.
I was motivated on this occasion by the words of Adrienne LaFrance in the Atlantic article I boosted yesterday, "The Despots of Silicon Valley". She wrote:
"Our children are not data sets waiting to be quantified, tracked, and sold. Our intellectual output is not a mere training manual for the AI that will be used to mimic and plagiarize us. Our lives are meant not to be optimized through a screen, but to be lived—in all of our messy, tree-climbing, night-swimming, adventuresome glory. We are all better versions of ourselves when we are not tweeting or clicking “Like” or scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
"Technocrats are right that technology is a key to making the world better. But first we must describe the world as we wish it to be—the problems we wish to solve in the public interest, and in accordance with the values and rights that advance human dignity, equality, freedom, privacy, health, and happiness. And we must insist that the leaders of institutions that represent us—large and small—use technology in ways that reflect what is good for individuals and society, and not just what enriches technocrats.
"We do not have to live in the world the new technocrats are designing for us. We do not have to acquiesce to their growing project of dehumanization and data mining. Each of us has agency.
"No more “build it because we can.” No more algorithmic feedbags. No more infrastructure designed to make the people less powerful and the powerful more controlling. Every day we vote with our attention; it is precious, and desperately wanted by those who will use it against us for their own profit and political goals. Don’t let them."
#eBay sellers instant feedback after buying "!!Great communication!!. A pleasure to do business with."... huh, news to me.. I clicked buy it now, ebay took money and that was it.
#ebay verlangt grade von Privaten, nachdem sie etwas verkauft haben, dass sie sich authentifizieren (auch wenn die schon seit über 10 Jahren dort verkaufen), indem sie ein Bild eines staatlichen Ausweises hochladen. ebay nennt keine Rechtsgrundlage, gibt keine Auskunft ob die Verbindung verschlüsselt erfolgt und was sie mit den Bildern machen bzw. wo sie sie speichern.
Wenn man es nicht macht, behalten sie das Geld ein. 🤨
Ob das rechtens und konform mit dem #Datenschutz ist? @bfdi
🔌⚡️With soaring electricity costs here, I should resign to sell these cost-effective, energy-efficient, and noise-free #Litecoin#DOGE miners. Planning to list them on #ebay soon. If anyone's interested, I can offer a great deal! Let me know 🤝💰
Temperatur & Feuchte des card10 auch direkt mal ins Wohnungs-Grafana eingebaut, zusammen mit den anderen BLE-Sensoren. Keine Ahnung warum es da noch nicht war.
Whenever I buy a generic product on Amazon or #eBay, I check both sites to make sure I'm not buying from a drop shipper who's merely listing someone else's item at a marked up price and ordering it for you.
I'd do anything I can to avoid supporting a drop shipper, but I finally ran into one situation where it worked out well for both of us. I wanted a specific power adapter. It was listed for $2 more on eBay than it was on Amazon, but I didn't want to pay for shipping so I bought it from eBay from an eBay store that was relatively near me. I was hoping to get it within a few days.
Well, I got it the next day and it came via an Amazon delivery.
I just paid someone $2 for the privilege of using their #Amazon Prime membership to get an item I wanted delivered sooner.
UPDATE: It turns out I paid a $5 premium. My item was listed at different prices. I didn't see the cheaper one.
OK, a quick overview of ecommerce drop shipping arbitrage. It's when someone lists someone else's product listing at a higher price, usually on another marketplace, but not necessarily. There is software to help people manage this and identify good products to target for arbitrage.
I ended up paying a $4-5 premium to get it. The drop shipper probably nets around $2-3 on this sale.
Most examples are more egregious. The markup is often very significant and they usually target cheap confusing goods in hopes you might perceive the higher price to mean a better product.
Who loses here? Usually you and the actual seller even more. People often realize they've been had and will return the item TO THE ORIGINAL MARKETPLACE. The drop shipper loses the sale, but doesn't really suffer.
Dear #Linux, If I'm installing a Linux distro on a laptop for the purpose of selling it on #ebay which Linux distro do you think would have the most interest? #Ubuntu because it's common? Mint? Or is the typical Linux buyer more likely to wipe and re-install anyway for good measure?
I checked a few recent Linux laptop sales, and they mostly had Linux Mint Cinnamon, sold by #FreeGeek Maybe I should follow their lead here.
If anyone is looking and in the UK, someone on #ebay is selling #HP#T730 thin client computers for a decent price. Need storage. I've bought a couple and I'm planning to turn one into an #opnsense router. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196104490290