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I just bought a new doorbell for my mother from a seller in Liverpool and within minutes get a cheery message from a guy in Hong Kong, that he's sent it.
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Did you look at the seller's 'legal information' before you ordered? It nearly always tells you where the seller really is based. Sometimes the mail gets delivered surprisingly speedily... sometimes.
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I ordered a computer chair for son no 1 2 weeks ago from a chap in manchester. Not registered as a business seller on ebay, it was dispatched same day. Yodel have still not recieved said chair even though it has a tracking number.

The dining chairs he has to sit on in front of the computer to do his schoolwork are hurting his back. Which makes him an even more moody sod.

Another hidden china purchase.

Up until the beginning of the year it didnt really matter if it was a 'stealth chinese' purchase, there was no issue with things arriving.
Now its a complete shitshow for anything coming into the country from anywhere.
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hope it doesn’t come from Europe or you might be in for a nasty shock!
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#12440 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Brexit - we got done!
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#12441 Re: Nothing In Particular

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there is a slimfast ad on the tv at the moment..it features larger ladies...
at the end of the ad there are three slogans to hook your memory..I can't remember 2 of them but the one I can remember says 'doable' with a backdrop of one of the larger ladies....

somebody has a sense of humour on the edge...

maybe it's my age
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ed wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:45 am ...somebody has a sense of humour on the edge...

maybe it's my age
Nope. Just a healthy warped sense of humour :D

I'm in week 5 (of 9) of the NHS Couch-to-5K program...

Anyone else doing (or done) this?
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I did more than 5K on Sunday, Nick. Just didn't leave the ground very much .
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IslandPink wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:17 pm I did more than 5K on Sunday, Nick. Just didn't leave the ground very much .
Chicken!

Due to do next session tomorrow but just had a 'flu jab and not feeling too brilliant...
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#12445 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Pfffffffffffffftttttttttttt!

Man-up!

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I know the hidden sellers of eBay is pissy and all but again, check the seller's business address if supplied and legal info too. And then read a few feedback postings. It will soon become apparent in the feedback if nowhere else that the seller is in fact in Tierra del Fuego, Hong Kong or ..... instead of Buddley Salterton or London.

I set off to buy a USB3 stick the other day. There is a huge market if forged actually 32gig memory sticks that are being sold as 1Tb or even 2Tb!!!!! It may be possible that 2Tb of memory can be held reliably on a USB stick. But is it????? I don't know. Having 'stablished that a particularly interesting USB stick from a UK seller was 256Gig for £27-95, and by no means the only seller to be marketing such, was the right one for me I bought, paypalled and waited two days till one dropped through my letter box.

Then I filled it up with 256gig of stuff; music and photos and sure enough it filled 249+gig of the stick. Then randomly I picked files and tried to open them and all seems to be retrievable. I did not try all and would have liked to open the last files on the stick if that would make a difference, but I don't know about this. I noticed that a format would only give e 232gig; why not 249+? and that was 'exfat' not NTFS but would that make a difference? Would a Mac formatting recover the missing part of the memory?

After formatting the stick I'll fill it again, wipe again and then begin to trust it. To me a usb stick with 256gig is phenomenal but that might be because I'm a bit behind the class in this sort of thing.

Can anyone throw light on this situation, please. 232gig ain't bad is it but......
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You could format the stick using the disk utility, as “MacOS Extended Journaled” which is the standard Mac formatting setup.
Whether it would increase the capacity of the stick, I don’t know.
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You'll always lose 10% or so - the physical size of the drive is always greater than the logical (formatted usable space) due to the overhead of the file system metadata, regardless of the actual on-disk format (NTFS, FAT32, EXT4 or whatever).
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Yes I've noted that with more modern usb sticks, fairy nuff then. But can you really get such huge memory in something so tiny? Are they reliable?
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andrew Ivimey wrote: Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:24 pm Yes I've noted that with more modern usb sticks, fairy nuff then. But can you really get such huge memory in something so tiny? Are they reliable?
If from a reliable manufacturer, yes.

There's been a lot on this in the raspberry pi thread - basically, even though a stick may genuinely have the memory it says, there are different types of memory in use at differing price points.
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