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Agh! Congrats on modum @carvalho20ptc XD. Well deserved 
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@Danacscott Thanks! 
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Reasonable interpretation. 
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Oh, boy, looks like the spammers and bots are at it again. 
I’ll make sure to block and ban them the best I can. I also appreciate your reports!
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Ever hated a website with intensity but need it to get something done?
I got a battery and mouse for my laptop. Other stuff too. Many items in one package, then other packages.
The blasted forwarder has the most frustrating website. Not optimized for mobile. No app available. Wide columns so you have to scroll back and forth constantly.
Other than knocking one of them over the head, what can I do without computer access? Sigh.
PS. Violence won’t fix anything but I’ve been trying to tell them the stupid dashboard is difficult to use since last year. I want to get my stuff, and never deal with them again.
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I find most sites are pretty horrendous on mobile, so I always avoid it if I can. Sometimes there are even parts of the site that seem completely inaccessible.
You can go into the browser options and “request desktop site” and that sometimes helps.
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Thanks. First thing I tried. Trouble with switching between desktop view and mobile view, is that the whole page refreshes - not good when filling out a form.
Landscape didn’t help because they’ve got an obnoxious banner that eats most of the screen.
I really didn’t want to put payment info into public computers though.
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Okay. Throat - thyroid still malfunctioning after two years.
Limbs - sore because of the above: effort = quick fatigue + pain.
Head - constant scatty energy spikes, makes the brain scatty too.
Dream area of brain - stopped working again, unless it’s for nightmares.
Anxiety center - no fixed location, but not unhoused (as the new lingo goes).
Ice is wonderful, but 
. Great find.
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And some salt for maximum nominess. 
Scientific name is Ziziphus mauritiana fruit. Dunno if other Caribbean Islands have them.
Only around usually between December and February. The world has changed though. It’s still warm here, this December. One of the few things I’d miss leaving Barbados.
PS Not my photo, it’s from Loop Barbados website. Just hella accurate. 
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I’ve decided to change plans, and buy part by part in order to do my upgrade, and I started with buying a SSD M2. This is the one I picked:
Got one with Heatsink since it has better performance and it won’t degrade so easily. I hope that next year I can get the other parts even though the future looks grim to PC Hardware.
Also RIP Crucial.
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I needed to update my main drive as well. I have a 1st gen SSD and it’s really starting to show its age. So, I bought a 1TB m2 during black Friday. It got back ordered for 1 week. Then it got back ordered for another month. Now it’s back ordered until February
SSD and nVME drives are still available, but the only ones in stock are from scalpers.
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I see, which’s why I’ve given up on online shops and decided to get my parts from physical shops in my city.
I got my SSD M2 from one asking them to deliver it at my home, and I’m glad for having it. It’ll help me to use my HDDs as it should: backup, downloads and media storage.
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You guys are brave - I don’t trust any of my local computer companies. Had bad experiences and dishonest sellers.
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In my opinion, a heat sink isn’t necessary for most SSD applications. And most gaming mainboards come with heatsinks for the SSDs anyway.
Regarding trust in components, in general, all marketplace sites (Amazon, Newegg, etc.) have become unreliable sources for a lot of products. Electronics are especially bad, and any kind of solid state storage (flash drive, SSD, etc.) is a definite no-go because it’s so easy to spoof a memory product to read as any capacity you like (the operating system simply asks the device how large it is, there’s no independent verification of the answer). It’s gotten to the point that for a lot of things I’ll only buy direct from the manufacturer or a trusted store like Microcenter that will stand behind their sales (I just wish they were closer…).
As an aside, it’s crazy to see the prices on the PC components I bought in 2024. I keep everything saved in PCPartPicker and every now and then I’ll check in on my last build. Some components have gone down a hair (but only a hair), some have held steady, and others have gone up quite a bit. The main SSD now costs 171% what I paid, the GPU now costs 186% what I paid, the RAM now costs 347% what I paid… Not the best time to build if you can help it, but if you need it you need it.
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@Danacscott I have seen those in the grocery stores in South Florida. But never tired them. IIRC They were quite expensive. BTW I miss Mangoes(we have them but them don’t taste the same) and Star fruit.
I have been using this place for my computer needs..
Best Buy, Staples can kiss my ass!
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