boonhet

joined 6 months ago
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 minutes ago

So does your back hurt yet?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

I remember this one!

Wasn't the tagline "We're as excited as you are"?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Hmm I could point you to a bar where that discussion could reasonably take place. Bit far for you if you're Canadian though.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 hours ago

Faithful Crysis sequel, really. Crysis II was already better optimized than the original game IIRC (which made the assumption that clock frequencies would keep rising and they were trying to make the game only realize its' full potential later after launch)

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 hours ago

Hobby? Absolutely!

Just don't expect any money out of it. At all. If you DO get money out of it, consider yourself very lucky. Do it for fun first and foremost.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 hours ago

I think it becomes unfathomable when someone's buying that number of cybertrucks. As in I can't fathom why someone would do that, unless to juice Tesla's numbers.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago

Just stay single.

Until one day someone makes you feel like you don't want to be single anymore.

Then maybe after a few years, marriage makes sense. Maybe it doesn't.

But if you rush into it, it's not gonna work out.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 hours ago

It's because for every dev who asks too soon there's another dev somewhere that doesn't ask at all, bills 300 hours their first month without being asked to, delivers nothing because they refused to ask for help and couldn't figure it out either. That dev is why people hate off-shoring to India. They did not work a second month.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Even with Alibaba and Aliexpress, there is some marginal value-add from a middle man. Like I said, in the EU, sellers are liable for 2 years of warranty for manufacturing defects.

But any dropshipper worth their salt has other sources for their shit too. Not necessarily direct from manufacturer, but companies that provide better prices than publicly available for B2C. I hear some of them are more or less invite-only. In any case, the Alis aren't considered great dropshipping vendors at all, since goods can take very long to reach customers.

And then as a dropshipping business expands, you can have local stock for some items. Generally, a dropshipping business should fill a specific niche and not have a billion items on sale, but rather be curated. So if you've got like 4 or 5 alternatives in some specific product category and one or two clearly sell better than the rest, on a consistent basis, you can order those in bulk and ship to your customers faster. The downside here is that you have more work to do, but you'll provide more value to your customers. And if your dropshipping business is honest, you can lead times visible on the website... And customers will love seeing "tomorrow" instead of "14-21 days".

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 points 23 hours ago

Don't forget:

Somebody to fuck

Nobody to fuck

I need your fucking

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah never doing that with any movie lol

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I agree on the purple moon tbh

 
 

For some reason or another, a whole third of all mechanical keyboards in the biggest local computer retailer's online store, are Ducky. Probably because they have ISO and ANSI layouts, a lot of colors, different sizes, and different switches. And they're ordered from abroad when bought, not stocked locally. So loads of choice and no cost showing them as available.

So since my only real options here if I want a full keyboard or TKL with blue switches are a couple of different Ducky models (one 3, Shine 7) in various colors, I'm wondering if anyone has personal experience with Ducky? I've read both praise and hate online, so can't really make heads or tails of the quality.

 

Long story short, despite living in a detached home with not too much 2.4 GHz noise, my Logitech unifying receiver has trouble with my mouse at 20 centimeters from the receiver. Keyboard at roughly 7-8 centimeters range has less trouble, but not none.

I can't be arsed to get an USB extension cord or anything. This is a stupid-ass problem. I want to replace them with something new. What mouse would you suggest that's ergonomic, but not too expensive? I'd say 150€ is the absolute limit, but would prefer under 100€. Mouse should be wireless as I have a tendency of moving it around. It's just the Unifying Receiver tripping me up - I've not had much trouble with other wireless mice in the past, and the same mouse works completely fine on Bluetooth as far as range is concerned, but it's a pain to reconnect on Linux for some reason or another.

I do a little gaming, but mostly software engineering. Precision isn't as important as comfort. I also don't want to get something uber weird shaped, it should still look and feel like a mouse ideally.

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