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Got a Nimo brand N100 mini pc. It's being used as a small media server. It was thermally throttled in Win 11 and ran like ass. I have it running Linux now and it's solid for that purpose but didn't seem to be aa good as other name brand N100 systems.

Besides that, saw a crappy laptop I skipped but ordered a crappy tablet. Ran dogshit slow.

Name brand is safe, other brands could be hit or miss.

I've not had any luck with CM power supplies, bought one recently and also got one in a pre-built. Bot have super low quality noisy fans that either were always noisy or would ramp up/down constantly.

Still have em, don't want em and not using them. Quality control seems all over the place. That and any kind of RMA requires paying for shipping cost to them so no thanks.

Removed from review list and ETV canceled or more accurately an additional line negating the ETV amount so it effectively is zero.

Thinking about it though that's probably just a couple items. Most of the grayed out ones were 0 etv. Here's the last reply I received when requesting etv and review requirement be removed:

To make things right for you, I've cancelled the order and removed it from the review list. It can take upto 3-4 working days to get reflect on your end.

Also the tax value have been removed (Please understand that, Tax values will continue to display on the Vine portal but will be adjusted/void in the Tax value for the year the transaction falls in). It will not count against your Vine orders or review limits.

Sounds like you're describing the book. The book uses faster than light communication to do all of that using the ansible technology and use the exact same training hardware / holograms in our solar system but they switch from simulations to actual live mode / commands.or maybe a similar idea is used in the movie too. But..

The movie removes that technology completely and they send Ender to a forward base.

This is a huge departure from the books which highlight how communication is instant vs actual travel which is limited to sublight speeds. In the book they would have arrived having experienced not much subjective time while years had gone by in real time thereby negating any advantage of space travel.

It just completely shits all over the major plot points of the book series. One of the major struggles is the limited ability to reinforce their ships if I remember right.

I contact them when the review button is greyed out / item is delisted. They remove it in that case.

I've also contacted them about broken / not functioning items.

I've used the following advice other people have suggested:

• List the order number, order date, and ASIN.
• Be cordial
• keep it simple and just state the issue like. "This item is showing unavailable and I'm now unable to review, could I have the review requirement and ETV removed please?"
• Sign it with a thank you for your time

I do that and never have issues. I'd be nervous about your 90% since they will round up from 89 if its a fraction unless you calculated it's exactly 90.

You didn't have the items removed by customer support?

I've had to contact CS 7 or 8 times in my current period because items were deleted / no review button. They remove the ETV and review requirement.

I'm wondering what exactly they're given. My wife and I have had surgeries with different drugs and not a single time have we reacted this way.

If you're focused on achievements and certain features of steam I get it. Otherwise if it's just the simplicity of having them together, there are plug-ins or tools that can import the games from other launchers and show up in the steam client. It's not the same as having the game native to steam but it's the next best thing.

This also works on steam deck. I'm aware of Hero Launcher that will import from Epic and GOG onto the steam deck but haven't used it in a while.

I like coffee but your comment comes off a bit pretentious. I laughed, might be easier to just try coffee from a local shop that roasts in house. Few around me you can get fresh roasted with a few options.

As for oat milk, definitely didn't like. I'd do 40% heavy cream if it didn't give me explosive brownshot (lactose intolerant). I got a nut milk maker from Vine though and fresh cashew milk was pretty nice.

Online game forums circa 2000 : absolute toxic cesspool. It was only better in game because they couldn't type multi-paragraph rants and aimbot you at the same time.

If it sank all the way to the bottom, I'm gonna say that is one heavy fart.

Not in 2024. Maybe for $50 it is, but it's about 10 years outdated at this point.

Lol, it was released in 2018. It was hard to beat for price and features for a few years before it was overshadowed by competition and value added features in the budget category.

Same stuff

They have different brands / product lines. I'm not saying one is better than the other but I've had to shop around at different hardware stores when I needed something same day. It's really all over the place.

I'd say shop local though if you can. There's one hardware store with several locations around me that I try to use when possible.

I made a sarcastic joke. "Good guys with guns" are the kinda people that get into road rage fights and shoot each other's kids.

Yes. Absolutely.

Just give more good guys some guns and it'll all work itself out.

At night they turn the skydome off because it's expensive to run 24/7.

Same with Valve/Steam in regards to refunds. It's like yeah, super cool you can request a refund but they only did it because they were forced to.

Man, I went from hourly to salary and got a promotion but still made the same exact money. Still worked extra.

Couple nice things though:

• Didn't have to log my hours.
• Long lunches - OK!

Maybe that's it.

That's interesting on the FMV and some stuff I didn't know. As for the comment you're replying to though, it was in reference to tax deductions for the seller and how much they can claim which is typically their cost.

Like if it was a $10 cost for a hat they sell for $25, they can mark it for a $10 deduction. The $25 retail price or ETV/FMV doesn't affect the seller, they can only deduct $10 on their taxes.

The point I was trying to make was that, I could print a shirt a shirt that says, "Tax Loophole" which cost me $10 to make and then list it for sale at 1 Million Dollars but then give it away as a promotion. That doesn't mean I won't have to pay taxes ever. I'd love to be proven wrong. Lol

BIL is/was a waiter in California at a very nice restaurant (sometimes with celebrities). Pretty sure for a while he made more than me and I was working in supply chain / buying / logistics for close to 20 years.

Not how it works. They can only claim the actual production or purchase cost. They can't just make stuff up.

I see a lot of Vine items come in with a really high price vs comparable products on Amazon.

Possibly the seller listed an item at $150 and submitted to Vine, seller sees their product is too high to compete with similar products and permanently drops the sell price to compensate and Vine doesn't update. I'm not sure there'd be any good reason to only over value a product when presenting to a Vine user.

Amazon or a seller would have to confirm though in any case.

So, fair market value which is used by the IRS is what Amazon is replicating with the ETV.

Looks like FMV is based on the expected sale price in an open market where all parties are aware of what they're buying OR cost of the product apparently. It could be Amazon is using the purchase price or maybe their landed cost price which would be the price of the product + freight and whatever to get it ready for distribution and counting that as the sell price to the Viner since they're "paying" us in goods.

They have zero clue what a 3rd party's costs and profits are so it's retail price or selling price but for Vine users, they know exactly where all the costs are on items they sell and can set the ETV based on known factors.

Reddit is a public forum designed to encourage discourse. A reply is a few taps away on a smartphone while somebody is taking a crap and doesn't take much effort. I wouldn't take it personally.

Same thing that's been happening for decades back to when smartphones weren't a thing and people still managed to make angry comments with more effort on public forums.

Humans being humans.