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Anyone ever bought chink arrows? I could use a couple dozen shitty aluminum arrows to go with my new shitty 50$ garage sale compound bow for shooting at stumps and trees and not caring if they hit a rock and collapse or skip off into the bush never to be seen again
I'm not seeing anything much cheaper than amazon.ca. Are chink offerings not worth it?
Kayden Sanders
Jack Ma? He's a born winner.
Jason Reed
After playing a while with my Snes Classic I kind of want a Snes controller for my PC, since I still play a lot of 2d games. Are the $3 controllers any better than Datafrog's?
John King
I looked into them a bit. they arent even cheaper or "better" than what I can get locally... I doubt they are worth it.
P.S. dont buy aluminium arrows. they bent way too quickly.
Ayden Peterson
>audio quality / build quality Rock Zircon = SE846 same audio quality, better build quality. Fucking expensive price tho. youtu.be/2mNlCTvV7uc?t=2m56s
For Chink goods just go KZ ZS5 v1.
Ayden Martinez
Just got my ZS5 memes, how do I check if I got memed into receiving the V2?
I like aluminum arrows, as long as they aren't kinked or starting to fail materially you can just bend them back into shape and not worry about them exploding and fucking your shit up I've only ever tried aluminum and carbon fiber though, and I don't trust carbon fiber when I'm not taking care of them. Should I be looking for fiberglass or wood if I don't go with aluminum?
Landon Anderson
What's the best tablet in $300-$400 range? Should I get one now or will new ones pop up soon?
Ryder Kelly
WTF is discord?
Luke Sullivan
this nigga here
Aiden Turner
I noticed there are refurbished flagships (S7/etc..) on Aliexpress, has anyone brought one? The price seems decent, and its better than dealing with the pajeets on classified
I saw some thing about it in the NYT, said it was some sort of game chat network that got taken over by the alt-right and neo-nazis or something.
I've seen it references on Sup Forums a bunch
Christian Nelson
Check out the TechTablets youtube channel, it's all chinkshit reviews but well done and not in Russian
Aiden Rodriguez
Any recommendations for a bluetooth controller? The 8bitdo fc30 pro looks cool, but is it worth the 30$? I'm mainly looking for a chink bluetooth gamepad that has R3, L3 buttons and a decent dpad
Anthony Rivera
What happened to the dried mango on AliExpress???
Anthony Phillips
The face looks bomb but why did they have to ruin it with that blue led shit???
what are some budget earphones for anime music. I've owned some pricier ones but while they're good they don't bring out the best of cute jap girls
Aaron Gomez
Which pricier ones? KZ earphones are generally good.
Grayson Bailey
Tried the ones from the dollar store?
Ian Reyes
atrio m7 yamaha eph100 beyer dt880
Lucas Moore
I have the DT880 250 ohm and 600 ohm. Why it doesn't bring out the best of cute anime girls?
Brody Ward
what's that? are you looking for trouble, kid? keep your mouth shut if you don't want your ass kicked
Alexander Jackson
their voice gets overpowered by the rest of the music. I also tried the piston 3 and they were the best for vocals but they don't keep up with everything else
Evan Gray
Are those SD cards any good? Im thinking about getting a 64 gig one to replace my old 8gig sandisk card
Logan Miller
The designer was a fan of Castlevania:SotN apparently
Jonathan Lee
Muh Chink Mangoes
Caleb Jones
Perhaps get some $6 gaming mouse off Ali.
Here's the one I actually use. YMMV on the color scheme I guess (last thread someone thought it looked shit, I find it nothing special and don't care THAT much anyhow). There are many others that are functionally equal though.
Nolan Phillips
>not drying your own mangas
Connor Hill
ahahahah
God I love idem descriptions on Asia web stores.
Owen Harris
Just picked this up for under $3 I always like to look at electrical components and connections but they're too fucking small. I'm too cheap to buy a big microscope. hope this shit works out. anyone have one?
Carson Evans
I have no clue. But the $3 controllers are ~as shit as real SNES controllers were. It's pretty authentic.
Jose Myers
I need a link, they've disappeared!
Blake Kelly
I have the Mocute and it's okay - certainly for its price.
It's not a PS4 controller in how it feels - reminds me more of a PS2 controller or thereabouts. A bit more mushy buttons and all that. But it works. It just doesn't feel super "tight".
Henry Cruz
Well the best
Samuel Lewis
I'd suggest one of the cube shaped $100 digital microscopes (cameras + lens + stand for use with a possibly included display) for that.
They're a really good option for looking at electronics with some ease for relatively cheap.
Samuel Roberts
>KZ ZS5 Looks like they've introduced many new points of failure for no reason I can fathom... unless the idea is that you can replace the cable without replacing the earbuds (to save money in the long run?)
David Lee
Pic related. I'll suggest buying just the microscope & simply using some existing HDMI or VGA display (many if not most sensor cubes have outputs for both)
Gavin Williams
That looks fucking amazing. I'll see if I stick to electronics and pick one of those up.
Joseph Diaz
BTW, have you tried any of the USB microscopes? Not sure which one to buy....
Ryder Stewart
nice looks like they're bassy too. thanks
Gabriel Moore
>patriotic dried mango
Hunter Stewart
The cheap ones are not really much better than a magnifying glass as far as I can tell from the two I saw
Basically, don't bother. Get an industrial microscope like that one. The cubes have at least cellphone-tier sensors and the optics on the lenses are better, as is the illumination ring (still dirt cheap in most cases, but it kinda matters that the LED are arranged in a larger circle).
Landon Martin
>tfw can't decide between Cube Mix Plus, Chuwi Hi13 or Jumper ezpad 6S
wat do bros?
Parker Bennett
Throw a dice. The Chinese porn cartoons won't care on which of these you view them on.
Michael Allen
which one would YOU choose out of those three? What about if money was no issue, which chinkshit would you pick then?
Caleb Morgan
You are aware that they're all gonna suck, right? And all of them will have faked processor specs and faked memory capacity. And a shitty, laggy screen. >What about if money was no issue I wouldn't buy chinkshit then.
Angel Jenkins
Where did you see one of these for $100? I've been looking at thye're all around $250
Ryder Edwards
> which one would YOU choose out of those three? Cube Mix Plus
> What about if money was no issue, which chinkshit would you pick then? Like, infinite money? Dunno, probably the one with most storage and the biggest microSD or M.2 possible 'cause that's basically all that will matter for my Chinese cartoons?
A Teclast X5 Pro or such at least has 256GB storage and 8GB RAM. I'm sure there are higher numbers somewhere.
Landon Allen
> And all of them will have faked processor specs and faked memory capacity. They all have genuine specs in /csg/'s typical stores.
Go wallow in your post-purchase rationalisation elsewhere.
Nolan Perry
any decent e-reader?
Adrian Walker
"Industrial microscope" and such on ali. There are quite many of these.
William Bailey
If you want a color screen tablet, sure, buy a tablet.
If you want e-ink, not really. China never particularly cared about that, apparently.
Kevin Peterson
I got myself an andonstar hdmi microscope a while back when they were on sale on banggood, in total i paid about 100e for it
Im pretty satisfied with it, soldered a basic through-hole transistor kit with and seemed pretty good, takes a while to get used to it tho.
Waiting for my pcb so i can try some SMD soldering next, but should be bretty good
Blake White
Does the eink company sell anything to no-name chinese manufacturers? I've only ever seen eink displays on name brand products (whether ereaders or watches)
Owen Powell
IDK. All I know is that there only ever were a few Chink eink devices sold and that they never really were very noteworthy (you can check out the three or so that are on ali now, still not noteworthy).
I myself always wanted a color screen more anyhow, so that's fine with me. If you prefer e-ink, you presumably will have to pick one of amazon's / rakuten's / barnes&noble's ebook peddling tools.
Nathaniel Hernandez
I'd think about what I want. I already have a chunky full size 14" laptop and tend to want more power than any of those have for a full laptop, so I'd be looking for an ultraportable convertible tablet thing. So I've already disqualified the Hi13 because 13.5" is more laptop sized.
Between the remaining 2 I would take the Cube Mix Plus because the CPU is faster, there's more storage, and I find the 10.6" size comfier. Also its 7Y30 CPU with Intel HD Graphics 615 has hardware decoding of h264, h265, VP8, VP9, VC1 and AVC while the Ezpad's Atom x5-Z8350 has hardware decoding for jack shit --this is important to me because I would probably be watching a lot of video on it.
Isaiah Nelson
I decided I wanted a 4:3 chink tablet that could run lineage os, narrowed it down to the original Xiaomi mi pad 1. I couldn't find one anywhere on the usual sites but thankfully found a used one on craigslist for $120. The seller said that it was barely used and I have to agree, the thing was practically brand new and even included the original box with all the accessories brand new and unwrapped.
So I installed lineage os, rooted it and the like and have been using it for the past week. Exactly what I needed in a tablet. Good battery life, screen aspect ratio is perfect for casual use and plays games pretty well (haven't tried any super high end games tho). There are a few problems that can be attributed with this unofficial LOS build im using but I'm willing to live with them til they get ironed out by the dev. Otherwise a solid device
Benjamin Green
>found a relatively unknown chink device on Craigslist I wish I lived in such an area
Noah Gonzalez
In Asia people "read" way way more comics than books, so they prefer tablets/phablets.
"Books" as a mass market thing is really unique to the West (where comics are for children, and even complete plebs read trash ya fiction and romance shit)
Ethan Jones
From what I've heard, the patent on eink displays expired this year so maybe we will see some more chink ebook readers in the future
Daniel Powell
Or they'll look at how even Kindle has moved away from e-ink and is just making gimped Android tablets with no Play Store, and do the same.
Charles Gray
eInk's been round that long? Wow
Dominic Robinson
Any good x86 touchscreen tablets that run windows? I need a good compact tablet to run my automotive diagnostic programs. Preferably something with more than two USB typeA ports on it as I don't want to have a million dongles hanging off of it.
Nicholas Nelson
>Any good x86 touchscreen tablets that run windows? Plenty >Preferably something with more than two USB typeA ports on it as I don't want to have a million dongles hanging off of it. Good luck. The best thing I know of is modding a Dell Venue 8 Pro and adding USB A ports yourself.
Jackson Brooks
Would have been patented long before it reached consumers.
Hudson Nguyen
Good point, that makes sense
Owen Ross
Sure, but even in the west people will probably mostly give up on eink readers again.
B&w eink readers make for shitty webpage readers. And since webpage readers are a must for the vast majority, it's an extraneous device.
That comics, manga, PDF documents with images and markup and video files and so on all also look better is just further dooming the eink reader on the mass market. Figures there will be a bunch of million of these left soon vs like 2+ billion color screen smart devices.
Ian Clark
You'd need at the least a 10x leap in battery tech for LCDs or OLEDs to make sense for extended reading, since you'd need to *CRANK* the brightness to read outdoors in comfort, and that'll tear through batteries.
Really, unless you're someone who travels (I am), paper books work well enough. An ereader is just an unnecessary extra expense: it's not like you're paying much or any markup to have your book in print vs. electronically, and you can sell/give that physical book when you're done.
Jordan Stewart
Colour eInk exists
Nolan Roberts
Only useful for static diagrams and images. Scrolling and webpages will still suck ass, and video won't work at all.
Or you could use that weird transflective pixel qi screen the OLPC XO-1 used ages ago. It's not e-ink but it has a backlit color mode and a low-power reflective high-res black and white mode for sunlight.
Jaxon Brown
People manage to read their not-as-high-contrast web pages and even watch videos on current phone, tablet and laptop batteries all day long, so the "tearing through battery" on ebooks is surely not the case.
Problem solved for the vast majority, their internet device will last the periods of time until their regular lifestyle makes them recharge it anyhow. And it will do web sites and all the other color stuff they (we? we are on Sup Forums after all) also want for their entertainment and social life and all that.
Jason Ramirez
I don't get what's changed. The ADP1 had a full color screen and was perfectly viewable at minimum brightness in direct sunlight. Why is this still an issue?
Justin Collins
I have like two pages of chinkshit that hasn't arrived yet. I'm half expecting to just receive a sack full of nasty smelling plastic all at once.
Christopher Peterson
When I ordered a lot I myself did usually get somewhat batched groups of packages.
I'm going to guess it has to do how postal services and air freight optimizes shipments.
Jackson Hernandez
I've someone never handled let alone owned an original OLPC. Wonder if they're dirt cheap now or high priced collectors items (I assume just about non ever made it to the third world, not that they were ever going to do any good there)
Joseph Lopez
>not that they were ever going to do any good there Not with how software and content decisions were made, no.
But Chinkphones and the like are doing that job now anyhow, WITH full access to the real WP and so on.
Ethan Richardson
>2fps
Eli Foster
I have one goy it to look at my mint plants. It's a pain to use sinse the focus distance is garbage but for the price it's fine I guess not sure how good it will be for electronics.
Noah Foster
Your options are: - Onyx Boox series - Boyue T-series - Lanqin - Tolino Shine - Tolino Vision - Wexler Flex One ...or Kindle or Kobo
Owen Gray
I remember playing around with the XO's OS in a VM back in the day, and it was the least intuitive most perplexing piece of software ever written. I'm completely confident not a single kid ever figured out how to do anything on it.
Wyatt Gutierrez
I'm so glad I'm a NEET who's awake during Chinese business hours. Helps me avoid getting chinked on shipping methods.
In my 4 aliexpress orders so far it's happened twice. One was corrected after messaging the seller, the other just happened and I'm waiting on a response.
Matthew Edwards
They seem to go for about $50-65 on ebay these days. I like mine more than I want that kind of money so I'm keeping it.
Yeah, the OS was really weird. What really blew though was that they wrote the entire DE in Python, running on an AMD Geode that's somewhere around the power of a Pentium 3. The idea was to make all the source readable and editable on device without messing with compilers, but it ended up making it all run slow as shit.
They had a cool mesh networking thing too, where even a machine in standby would relay packets, so an entire town could have (slow) internet access from one wifi AP.
