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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:19 am
by Malcolm
This was the worst sale ever on Amazon. A bunch of crap no one wants that still sold out in seconds.
1) You tried to buy them, so you wanted to spend money on them.
2) Other people successfully bought them, so they did, too.
Sounds like a fucking red letter sales event for Amazon.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:41 am
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:One complaint I have seen is that people see a sale item they want, go sign up for Prime, then go to buy the item and it is already sold out.
Well, that's a stupid plan, why not sign up first?
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:37 am
by GORDON
Because they were checking out the sale to see if Prime was worth the $99/year? yeah yeah free month
My fave sale was the guy (girl?) who bought the 55 gallon drum of anal lube.
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:43 am
by GORDON
I think the disappointment comes from the hype of "This will be bigger than Black Friday, trust us!" and mostly what they are selling is the equivalent of dress socks.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:49 am
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:I think the disappointment comes from the hype of "This will be bigger than Black Friday, trust us!" and mostly what they are selling is the equivalent of dress socks.
Then those people had NO IDEA what Amazon's Black Friday sales actually look like, because this was just as messy and bad as those are.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:51 am
by GORDON
Nobody gets hyped over dress socks. They want the cheap TVs that, in spite of amazon saying they had thousands, were still sold out in 10 minutes. yay, fun.
It was a letdown.
Personally, I didn't buy a thing at amazon yesterday, and I wanted to. Instead I shopped at Catt's Deep Discount.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:38 pm
by TheCatt
Catt's DD is the best.
Speaking of which, our fulfillment department kinda sucks. It appears your order was bagged, but left at our warehouse instead of going to the delivery place.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:41 pm
by GORDON
I'll shoot off an email to customer service, see if I can get someone fired. Maybe give them less than 5 stars in the review.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:49 pm
by TheCatt
Good luck. Our customer service rep is a rabbit.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:05 pm
by Malcolm
Intel's RST tool is reporting...
The application is detecting early warning signs of failure with a SATA disk that result from a slow degradation over time. When a disk is reported at risk, you can suppress the SMART event, but we recommend that you contact the manufacturer for more information to prevent potential data loss. Follow this procedure to suppress the SMART event:
Gotta be fistfucking me. Primary SSD for the OS/system shit. Wtf? Maybe time for an Intel SSD.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:34 pm
by Leisher
SSDs are not yet "there" in terms of reliability.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:36 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:SSDs are not yet "there" in terms of reliability.
I expect five years out of those things.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:38 pm
by TheCatt
I've used/bought about 20-25 SSDs. 2 of them failed within the first year.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:40 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:I've used/bought about 20-25 SSDs. 2 of them failed within the first year.
What's your brand?
EDIT: FUCK. Hard Drive Sentinel confirms primary SSD is fucked. Estimated remaining lifetime: 0 days. Lifetime writes: 970 Gb. That's some bullshit.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:04 pm
by TheCatt
That is indeed, some bullshit.
Samsung drives, mostly EVOs.
All desktops I have are RAIDed. The laptop isn't. but all important data is stored. Still, reconstructing from scratch would suck.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:18 pm
by Malcolm
Just annoyed it had to be the fucking drive the OS lives on, naturally. Disk imaging tedium. Can move everything to the remaining 240 drive (of same kind as the failing one) and load the excess to the HDD. Hmm, wonder if they're still under warranty.
...
Woohoo.
Solid State Drives: Solid State Drives (SSD) – A period of 3 years from purchase date
Knew I liked that company for a reason. This might motivate me to send back my shitty PNY thumb drive, too.
Windows update thinks ALL the drives are failing and refused to backup to those locations until I finally found the "fuck you" button and got past it.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:11 pm
by Malcolm
Got two backup images, one on HDD, one on USB, plus a makeshift USB boot key. Will do the unpleasant work tomorrow.
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:01 pm
by Malcolm
I sound like a broken record, but as an audiophile, goddamn, the Turtle Bay headphones still produce amazing quality tunes. I can hear mixed bass lines clear as a bell. Quality is fine enough that it also helps me in decoding vocal harmonies. I guess due props must go to the Creative Soundblaster ZxR. I don't use the voice mic much, but the manual volume control within arm's reach is more convenient than I thought. Far as the dial goes, at 9'oclock and a couple degrees more gives me plenty of audio discrimination.
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Re: new desktop
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:39 pm
by Malcolm
Two minor additions are coming since I have a Newegg gift card burning a hole in my pocket and I need an excuse to crack open the case to do some other non-related hardware work. Since Newegg isn't run by complete dicks, their cards never expire or degrade in value.
1) Cheap refurb Logitech Z200 speakers.
2) Cheapo refurb LG CD/DVD RW.
Re: new desktop
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:07 pm
by GORDON
Aren't CD rws about 20 bucks these days?