Image quality difference is negligable. I've had a lens saved by the UV filter (tripod got knocked over, lens hit a rock head on). IMHO it's worth it. Lens hood is a good call too, cap only helps if you're not shooting when it falls.
Don't use a cheap UV filter and you won't notice it. https://photographylife.com/filters-affect-resolution-lenses
It looks like it comes with a uv filter, that would be my first suggestion. Not because you need uv protection, but because if you smash your lens it'll protect the lens itself from being broken.
Other than that its easy to spend money on accessories, and my suggestion is don't. Start taking pictures first and learn.
Five.
As in Cat 5
I'd use Canada Post, except they won't ship products internationally that contain a lipo. UPS wasn't my first choice =(
Yeah, this thread has me reconsidering and thinking I should just embed the cost in shipping.
Those 2% were covered by the 3rd party insurance, and I send out replacements right away instead of waiting for the insurance to do their thing.
Yep you're well within your right to do a chargeback and I'd probably have to eat the loss, but I'm not willing to ship a replacement in that case either. The insurance would ensure you get the product at the end.
In which case that's bundled into the shipping cost, so you're paying it either way at the end of the day. I could just not offer and pad the shipping rates, but opted to give my customers the choice. So far I haven't had anyone who opted out, lose a package. Those likely to lose them, know already that their local ups is sus.
Given the small fee in ops screenshot, most likely. We don't know who their shipper is.
My understanding is trying to get reimbursed by ups is also a time consuming headache. They make you wait a while, need evidence, etc etc etc. I can just ship a replacement right away and as long as the original package stays lost, I don't have to worry about not being reimbursed.
Also ups sucks so much I'd rather give that insurance money to someone other than them. I don't understand how ups can lose packages that are being held at a store for pickup, unless their employees steal them.
Only up to a smallish amount, it's been a few years but i think it was like $100 cad
For people asking what this is - for my small biz, adding insurance via ups would be about $25 per package, and 3rd party protection is about $11. I don't make any money off this, it's strictly to cover lost / damaged shipments.
I offer default protection on during checkout but call it out in a big obvious box, and warn that if you remove it and the package is lost then you're out of luck. Most people leave it on, and I have about a 2% package loss rate (thanks ups) that has all been covered so far.
If I didn't offer it via 3rd party then that $25 would be rolled into the shipping cost, so the customer is forced to pay. This way they get the option, and it saves them money.
I wish more companies would just be up front about it though, it feels deceptive when they shove it in without explaining why.
Briefly for GPUs, yes. I picked up a 5080 at the end of last year for msrp.
Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.
This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:
They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.
Let me know if you have any trouble!
Are you injecting power at more than just the start of the line? That might solve the color issue. Voltage drop tends to make leds shift a little.
This depends on how long your runs are though, I would expect 24v to be more resistant