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I have seen some snakeoil sales people advertising "headphones" for tinnitus, cant see how it would work though. Seems there are a lot of ads for this lately.

My wife upgraded from the 7 to the 11 a few months ago, its a pretty decent upgrade. I always skip a few releases and take a 3 year contract on my phones. Two years is too short for needing a new phone and three years makes the monthly cost more acceptable.

I wonder how long it will be until these types of services that support fraud are looked at. The previous one was Skrill, it seems they use them because they are not traceable.

The higher memory numbers on newer cards is just for handling higher resolutions. If you game at 1080p then its not as much of a big deal. Heck Im still on an RX580 GPU and it still merrily handles anything I throw at it.

There I fixed it for you I remember the CUD days, it was an expensive time.

I dont believe Louis has it to be honest. He is getting older and not improving, compared to the up and coming younger riders he isnt there. The other problem is that it takes consistency in performance to be a GC contender, he has shown many times that he might have a good day or two but doesnt have enough of them to be in contention. Hopefully he proves me wrong, I wouldnt mind that at all, Im just not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

I spoke to a service guy about these machines when I noticed one in the queue, he says they are bullet proof. Steel gears etc where most of the newer ones are plastic. Parts are still available and they last a long time.

I use a QI charger for my phones, been doing so for a few years now so I dont even take the cable out of the box anymore. For CarPlay you would just need to use a lightning to USB-A cable which could be a pain if it isnt included anymore.

Wow that sucks, I was in PE on Saturday and driving through I was surprised at how many runners and cyclist were out by themselves. I figured its just safe enough to do that in PE, seems I was wrong.

I saw that too and figured it was time for me to leave this fred and never return.

I have a Makita 235mm circ saw, its just too big and heavy for most of the tasks you would want one for. The only time its been really useful was for making cuts through beams without needing to rotate 4 times.

Tools4wood is busy putting one together at the moment with woodwork specific machinery. Looks like its going to be really nice.

No! Resistive loads are a nightmare on inverters, car batteries can deliver high amps for the startup load of a car but arent designed to produce continuous power, it will kill that battery really quickly.

Yes, this was for incoming stock of the new cards. I see since then though that its become an international issue with people trying to scalp the cards for much higher amounts due to limited stock availability.

Have the newer maglites moved over to 18650 batteries? I personally wouldnt buy a torch if it doesnt use them these days.

Does anything ever come from those complaints? The CPA was supposed to enforce all manner of things and yet it has proven entirely toothless and incompetent. This pricing reminds me of the recent Nvidia graphics card debacle, everyone was questioning how it suddenly ended up double the price in SA and no good answers were found.

Yeah I eventually got them to replace the entire lower case including battery, keyboard etc. The funny thing is Apple had a recall program for the batteries but SA didnt qualify... Im assuming because its not an Apple direct country. The battery swelled so badly that it was like a rocking chair on a desk, the trackpad even stopped working from the pressure.

Im also going with Arione, it was the go to MTB saddle for quite a while. I still have the PlanetX copy on my MTB, looks like its been through hell but still comfy.

SARS definitely plays a part but its mostly just greedy distributors taking the piss in SA. When you control the only official channels then you get to control pricing.

Yup, core is always a problem. Im still not sure why Apple dont have a direct presence locally. I had the unfortunate time of having to send my MBP in for repairs at core, it took a while to get fixed and I had to fight with them even though it was under warranty and the battery swelling is a known issue.

Yeah Huawei are heavily subsidized so they can release great hardware for great prices. The lack of Google services on newer devices is an absolute deal breaker for most though. I seriously hated the itunes days, it was a pain having to do everything through it. Thankfully that is all gone and there is no dependency on it anymore, everything can be done from the phone only these days. I actually dont think itunes even exists anymore.

I like the iPhone, unlike the high end Android devices I had previously the iPhone works as well after 2-3 years as it did when you bought it. It used to be a case of iPhones being more expensive but even Samsung with the utter trash they release costs more these days.

The 12 is supposed to be priced the same as the 11, its the reason they dropped the headphones and charger.

That looks really cool. If you know exactly what you need to do and get yourself ready then it could be worth it. Things like wide beltsanders for live edge slabs etc would be awesome, if you had to pay someone to do that for you it would end up costing more Im sure.

Just chop off the end of a multi-plug and attach it like that, that way the whole multi-plug can be automated and you can plug whatever you like into it. I have a POW R2 on a short extension cable, I use it to monitor power consumption of various devices. I have flashed mine with Tasmota to make it easier to integrate into my home automation platform.