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Liquid Chicken posted:The setup for failure. Bennington, Vermont has a strip mall with a Kmart, JcPenny's and a Radio Shack. Just need a hat trick of closures and all that will be left is a sad Hallmark, PayLess Shoes and Staples. The Wal-Mart is expanding into a Super Wal-Mart nearby so that should be the final nail in the coffin for this strip o' poo poo. I dunno about the Bennington one but the Radio Shack in Brattleboro is a privately-owned franchise and IIRC is somehow doing really well On the other hand the remaining Radio Shacks are probably freaking the gently caress out right now - corporate shoved the phone repair service down managers' throats so hard that it's now an important part of their business (despite the fact that they buy the cheapest, shittiest replacement parts out there). Apple's new iOS update disables the home button on iphones that have been repaired by non-apple techs. This will not end well.
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Unguided posted:RadioShack's obsession with selling cell phones and batteries just baffles me. Oldschool RS could've easily capitalized on the maker trends from a couple years back and made tons of money; sell Raspberry Pi and LEDs to arduino buffs who don't want to wait 2-5 days for shipping. They did start carrying a fairly decent assortment of Arduino/Beaglebone/RPI/LittleBits stuff but they literally didn't advertise it at all, and at least in my store they had us set up that section in the Senior Citizens aisle (home phones, alarm clocks, etc.) so most people coming in didn't even know we had them. One time I was bored and we had an extra gondola display right at the entrance, so I made up a nice display for all that poo poo. We were #1 in sales in the district that week. The following Monday my district manager came in, gave me a bunch of poo poo for going off-plan and made me take it down. Our sales dropped. That was right about the time I started telling people that they should just go down the street to Microcenter and get those button-cell batteries for $0.49 instead of $5.99 (yes that's actually what we charged for a single battery).
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Booblord Zagats posted:My money is Ubisoft crashing and Rockstar having to cozy up to another brand like EA or Valve because of the massive amount of costs they endure in development cycles. Square-Enix makes an assload of money off Final Fantasy XIV, the new Tomb Raider and Just Cause are selling very well, and of course any game with the words Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest they make will automatically sell a million copies, so I don't think it's going to be them.
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Cleretic posted:Actually, their big RPG releases are having the most trouble. Their core Japanese development team--so Final Fantasy, primarily--has been struggling to update its product for an audience that it thinks has moved on. Nobody buys JRPGs on consoles anymore. Agreed, but unlike Sega, SE seems to listen to fan feedback. FFXIV is basically the MMO turnaround success story (for those who've never heard of it, FFXIV 1.0 was an absolute trainwreck and threatened to gouge the company out from the inside, but SE did a complete overhaul and 2.0 was re-released to almost universal acclaim and is robustly competing with World of Warcraft for subscription numbers). Also FFXV is getting shitloads of hype (deservedly so - IMO it looks incredible), and you can be drat sure that even if the FFVII remake is balls, it will sell millions of copies off the name alone. Their decision to make that remake episodic, while understandable and somewhat justified, is also going to make them a fuckton of money. But yeah, between the XIII trilogy and the abortion that was XIV v1.0, they were in serious danger for a while (didn't the last Hitman game bomb like crazy too?)
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gannyGrabber posted:I played the demo, it's clunky garbage and is gonna do Not Well. So did I and I thought it was pretty great, but the point is it's a new Final Fantasy and therefore even if it gets reviewed awfully, there's going to be a shitload of people who buy it at release because hey, new main-series Final Fantasy. I'm not saying it's right and if it tanks hard it'll definitely damage the Final Fantasy name even more in the long run, but it is going to sell a ton of copies out of the gate.
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http://www.twice.com/news/retail/new-circuit-city-we-ain-t-no-radioshack/60309quote:Indeed, the duo’s vision includes hundreds of small neighborhood stores, stocked with a distinctly Shack-like assortment of mobile phones, headphones, DIY, private-label accessories and even RC toys. lol good job going on the record as saying "we're not gonna be another Radio Shack" and then listing the exact changes RS tried to make in the last year and a half that failed miserably. By the end, RS had (and was heavily advertising) a solid selection of Bluetooth speakers and headsets, 3-4 different brands of wearable cameras (including GoPro), a bunch of dumb home automation stuff, video game systems with playable demos, an assortment of DIY stuff, and associates who were essentially told their jobs were on the line if they didn't meet certain sales goals. None of it worked, and none of that is going to work, and relaunching under a brand name that failed so spectacularly is A Bad Idea. Even a fossil like Radio Shack realized there's no money to be made in laptops and TVs, something these guys don't seem to get (from my experience the average profit to Radio Shack off a laptop or TV in the $500+ range was like $10, the same they'd make selling a single cordless phone battery). Unless they can match Amazon prices (which they can't), the new Circuit City is going to be the same thing Radio Shack and Best Buy are: showrooms so people can gently caress around with electronics and then go buy them on Amazon for much less. Also lol if they think that the sales associates they'll be paying under $10/hr will make an effort to learn anything about the large variety of products they'll be carrying. poo poo, even my old District Manager's eyes would glaze over if you tried to ask him why you can't connect a Composite video output to a Component input and have it work, or god forbid the difference between 802.11n and 802.11ac. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 19:35 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Skeleton Ape posted:Oh man, don't even get me started about stupid rear end district managers not knowing about IEEE standards. poo poo, this one time I was working at Barnes and Noble and I didn't mean the exact tech specs you dummy, but if I ask someone at a store that's supposed to specialize in poo poo like that what the difference is, and the response is "uhh, well ac is the newest technology so it'll make all your wireless devices work faster," that's stupid and shows a complete lack of even the most basic knowledge about the products you sell. I'd even allow that it was deliberately a shifty answer in order to sell that $200 ac router over the $50 n router, but the guy was genuinely surprised when I had to explain to him that no, switching from an n router to an ac router won't magically make your n-equipped laptop download things faster.
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Skeleton Ape posted:What I meant was that knowing about products isn't what district managers are hired / paid for, and consequently, they don't. Then that's even more damning evidence towards how terribly Radio Shack ran its corporate side because the 4 DMs I met all started as associates and worked their way up the chain. The specific guy I mentioned managed 3 different stores before he moved up to DM, and was an associate for years before then. So I guess it's lovely practices both ways - promoting internally rather than bringing in people who actually know how to oversee groups of stores, and allowing someone to rise up through the ranks without learning a drat thing about what they're supposed to be selling. DM was probably a bad example in hindsight, but it extends to most of the associates I encountered as well. You don't need to be a certified electronics genius to be able to explain to someone why an AT&T phone won't work on Verizon (I mean I guess they do nowadays, but not back then). The number of times I had to process returns from various employees doing poo poo like selling someone a mini-USB when they needed a micro, or 4-pin phone cable to someone who needed Cat5e was pretty mind-numbing. Hell, I watched my manager literally run through multiple training modules for a couple of new employees, ensuring that even if they wanted to learn, they couldn't. VVVVVVV Exactly, which is why they failed and also why this new Circuit City endeavor will also fail Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 03:15 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Tiny Lowtax posted:So you're the guy who goes into stores and asks questions he already knows the answers to just so he can prove the salesman wrong. Cool. lol sorry if you got owned by a teenager at your retail job dude but I don't think it's unreasonable for my direct superiors to know the basics of the products they sell (and by extension expect everyone below them to know) my 86-year-old grandma knows the difference between a lightning cable and a micro-usb but I guess expecting somebody who works for an electronics chain to know the difference is pedantic neckbearding, a-yup yup Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 03:59 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Tiny Lowtax posted:I would expect my direct superiors to know how to run and manage a business, and my floor workers to know the product. I literally covered this like 3 posts ago you dunce also lol you actually do work retail don't you
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Justin Godscock posted:
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1500quidporsche posted:I worked a few small box retail operations through high school and university and literally the only people who rise through the ranks there are god drat sociopaths with zero prospects and no hard and/or soft skills. I've had a loving district manager run through a small camera shop screaming not to touch his blood because he got Hep C from his Filipino wife while I'm trying to keep the one person stupid enough to wander in during the past 2 hours from walking out, these are the kinds of people you're dealing with with a lovely specialty outfit like Radio Shack. I guess I got lucky because while upper management was dumb-but-bland, there was a good year and a half where I could buy great, cheap weed from my assistant manager and all 3 of my associates Retail hell was softened a great deal by being able to go downstairs to the stockroom and hit the Store Bong whenever I felt like it Good times
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Tiny Lowtax posted:No actually I don't.  Is Adobe still relevant as a company? I know they're being basically forced to give Flash the Ol' Yeller treatment, and everyone I know who uses any part of CS talks about how loving awful Creative Cloud is. Acrobat seems to be increasingly irrelevant these days, too. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 05:51 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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FishionMailed posted:
I want to say that MadCatz stepped up their game in recent years but boy were their N64 peripherals total loving crap. Even beyond that weird rule Nintendo had where a 3rd-party controller couldn't use the same design as the original, theirs was still a loving abomination of cheaply-made plastic and hard edges. Same with Nyko.
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FishionMailed posted:What a failed opportunity considering how much everyone actually disliked the N64 controller design. Coulda shown Nintendo up and made themselves the new standard or some poo poo - 'oh lemme get the MadCatz controller!' instead of 'ugh loser has to play with the MadCatz controller.' They tried   They failed
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OTOH i got a few Wiimote wireless nunchuk thingies for like $3 each from Nyko, they work really well and it's pretty nice not having to hold both hands 6 inches from each other at all times when playing Wii oh and a wireless sensor bar for the Wii too, but that's kind of hard to gently caress up seeing as how it's literally a pair of IR LEDs in a box
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The_Franz posted:Were their Playstation memory cards the ones everyone said not to buy because they randomly erased themselves? I think so. Conversely (Nyko vs Madcatz again!) The yellow Nyko PS2 memory card I had was super-reliable and sturdy as hell.
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FishionMailed posted:yeah welcome to bars on the west coast East coast bars are this bad too. I don't even mind paying $6-7 for a good beer but lol if I'm going to pay $12 for a bud light at a Devils game when I can walk across the street from the arena and buy 30 of them for the same price
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I think they're on their slow way out, too. When I was living in Boston they closed 2 or 3 prime-location BBs within like 6 months, and the remaining ones looked like poo poo. Come to think of it, the 2 in my area also look like poo poo, and they're both located in literally the most profitable retail sales zip code in the country, so I dunno. Bare shelves, lots of empty open space, at this point they remind me of Kmart more than anything else, or Circuit City in its last moments. Best Buy needs to drop any and all non-main-appliance brands it can and private-label as much stuff as they can. Nobody pays $70 for a Monster-brand HDMI cable anymore, but people will still pay $20 for a regular HDMI cable they can get on Amazon/Monoprice for $2-5, either for the convenience factor or through laziness/ignorance. Amazon already figured this out with their Basics line - a month or two back I picked up 3 25-foot HDMI's for $7.98 total from them and they're drat solid cables. Private-label stuff was the true lifeblood of Radio Shack and I don't understand how multiple CFOs and CEOs across 4-5 years couldn't figure that out. Literally the reason RS imploded is because they went all-in on buying inventory of super-low-margin products like laptops, TVs, cell phones, GPSes, Fitbits and all that stuff. (Who the gently caress even considers buying a PS4 at a Radio Shack?) You ever try to buy a cell phone outright at a brick&mortar? They hate that poo poo. Well, corporate hates it (at RS it was awesome because it was a commission on $700 with none of the bullshit usually associated with selling/activating a phone). Why? Because if it's an Android phone, what they just sold you for $700 they bought from Verizon/ATT/Sprint for between $650-680. If it's an iPhone? They sold it to you at a loss of about $50. Cell phone resellers profit directly off the incentives provided to them by the carriers. It's incentivized the same way as the reseller incentivizes their employees - they get extra for bigger dataplans, etc. Meanwhile, the $10 aux cable to plug your phone into your car stereo? Warehouse price $1.03. $5 pack of AA's? $0.76. It scaled up, too - they were buying 25ft Cat5e cables for like $3 and selling them $34.99 and people bought that poo poo constantly. And yeah, sometimes people would bitch about $19.99 for a USB cable, but those same people would clean the store out when the cable went on sale for $14.99. Radio Shack and Best Buy should just be physical Monoprice/Bestlink type stores. They don't even have to come close to Monoprice prices, but the profit margins on those basic electronic necessities is so loving high it's hilarious.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I went to Kmart today. There was like 20 cars in the football field sized parking lot. That's actually exactly why I used to go to the one Kmart that existed by me - it was like a tech museum where you could buy the exhibits if you wanted. I distinctly remember seeing Super Nintendo games for sale during the height of the PS1/N64 era, and there was a short period of time during which I purchased a Blu-Ray copy of The Fifth Element and a sealed copy of Blast Corps for N64 out of the same aisle. Sadly, they went the Walmart path shortly afterwards and all the fun was lost. It finally closed about a year back and now I think the building is an indoor track/field practice complex? Cowman posted:it's because the cashier gets in trouble if they don't get an email and phone number and credit cards. seriously they can and will get fired if they don't get enough. This sucks and is true for a lot of retail chains. For a while it was just emails, and it was literally faster to just say "mike@aol.com" then have to deal with the spiel they were required to give me. Nobody ever actually questioned if it was a real address, they did their job, who cares? Now it's email and phone number at the very least, I've had places ask me for my address before. I figure it's only a matter of time til they're scanning your retinas like in Minority Report or beaming ads into your dreams like Futurama.
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Happy Bear Suit posted:utorrent was once like 25kb, then it presumably got acquired by the russian mafia qbtorrent is the successor to the lightweight BT client throne
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:mu. mutorrent. μtorrent. Nobody calls it that tho
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A small company my company is (was I guess) doing business with dug themselves into a pretty deep hole when the owner sent us a profanity-ridden, childish email complaining about something trivial that for some reason caused him to blow his top. This guy has in the past been pretty poor at dealing with changes. On a whim I checked Yelp for that business (not really a type of business you'd expect to see reviews for): 2 reviews - one from an actual customer calling the guy a hothead and claiming he did the same thing to her (blew up when she pressed a seemingly minor issue), and the other is a 5-star review from somebody with the same first name and last initial as the owner  That's my Yelp story, the other one is more boring but was a good way to waste time at work: When I was a wage slave at Radio Shack I would browse the Yelp pages for all the RSes in the area and try to figure out exactly which employee hosed up and merited a bad review. Some were kind of inane "I went there at 9:30PM and they had closed at 9 instead of 10 for inventory NO WONDER RADIO SHACK IS FAILING SO HARD" but some were pretty funny "I went in to buy an iPad and the guy was so pushy with warranties and accessories that I walked out and bought it across the street at Best Buy instead" e: actually they're both pretty boring stories sorry guys 
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Mozi posted:1 star, had a weird look, damp smell and few patrons. but enough about this thread 
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Darth123123 posted:our your mom would have more impact if you didn't misspell a 2-letter word 1/5 would not be insulted by again
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Professor Shark posted:You just know that there's a goon out there who is angry at the moon or something equally dumb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adz4rbKSsDI
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KiteAuraan posted:Hers is a low grade LG I believe. Same with the dishwasher. Both needed major service in under a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_label Company A making products for and to be sold under the name of company B is a really common thing in virtually every product and component market.
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I was under the impression that a lot of the off-brand Chinese TV companies had really stepped up their game recently. I personally have a Vizio, but I know plenty of people who have random Chinese branded TVs that work just fine. I think now that 4K is becoming the standard in new TVs, 1080p TVs are becoming the new "anybody can make a solid TV," kind of like how brand name is irrelevant these days if you're looking for a basic 720 display.
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Nonsense posted:MY DAUGHTER BE SAFE IN SUV I have yet to find a TV where the "Smart" features aren't poo poo. I never use the Netflix/Hulu apps on my Vizio because they are slow and clunky and overally terrible. My parents have a high-end Samsung 4K 65" and they still use a Roku because the Netflix app on there is terrible too. I really hope we get over Smart TVs. I would have thought the fact that Samsung literally tells you in their T&C that their TVs are always listening and transmitting would have been a pretty big nail in that coffin.
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etalian posted:On his first day of training camp the team thought a janitor stole Alfred Morris parking spot because the car was in such bad shape. His mentality is great, and resonates with me - if I ever win the lottery, I'm not buying a new car, I'm buying and restoring a '92 Volvo 940 Turbo, because it's the only car I ever drove and it lasted for loving ever. I had to give it away because I couldn't afford to store it, but I'm pretty sure it's still on the road somewhere in Vermont. God I loved that car.
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TheKennedys posted:This but a '90 740 GL. Steel-colored steel with rubber bumpers, I got rear-ended by a garbage truck once and all it got was a little scratch in the back bumper. I only got rid of it because enough mechanical things died (blower motor, Freon, catalytic converter, transmission was on its way out) that at Volvo repair prices it would have cost more to fix it than it was actually worth, but externally that thing was loving indestructible Yeah. Mine was the famous Volvo red, too. Leather seats, turbo engine, the works. I had one summer where everything broke in the span of a few months (blower, starter coil, plugs/cables, a few other things), but other than that it was rock-solid. Got it from my parents with 88k miles on it, gave it away with 243k. Thing was a beast and I always remember the looks on peoples' faces when they realized a car that big and boxy could loving move if I floored it. You think internal parts were expensive, at least they were available. I got broken into via the passenger front window once, and was never able to open that window again after a repair. Apparently the window itself has some bracket pre-attached to the up/down electrical doodad, which is different from the '91 940, the 93' 940, and any other '92 model. As a result I ended up yanking one that was close out of a '92 740, just to keep the window closed, but the mechanism didn't fit right so I couldn't actually open or close it. Same with the electric side-view-mirrors; some rear end in a top hat smashed one of mine and I had to just put one of those magnifier mirrors over the crack since the mirror itself was non-removable from the whole assembly and I could never find the specific one I needed.
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Y-Hat posted:there's an NYC supermarket chain named Fairway that fits well here I really like Fairway. They're a little more expensive so I usually get name-brand stuff (canned soup, frozen food etc.) at Stop&Shop, but Fairway has great and varied produce, a nice selection of meats and cheeses at the deli, and honestly a better beer selection than most of the liquor stores around me. I dunno if it's just this particular Fairway, but there's a full huge aisle just for beer and they're constantly getting new stuff in. Oh! and they have a shitload of different kinds of coffee and they grind it fresh for you if you don't have a grinder at home. It's basically a Whole Foods and a normal supermarket combined, they mirror a lot of their aisles with organic-only equivalents and poo poo
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Gamestop is doing fine. Their foray into portable electronics (Apple products, tablets) seems to be doing pretty well, especially since you can buy used gear like you can with games, and they've got their own AT&T private-label network ala Straight Talk/Metro PCS. Also they got smart and now they sell retro games again, and judging by the prices of NES games skyrocketing again recently that should work pretty well for them
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Captain Yossarian posted:Wait, do you mean wholly at&t owned MVNO Cricket Wireless which has nothing to do with GameStop other then being sold there, or something else? Something else. I guess they're literally just selling AT&T under the Spring Mobile name maybe? I dunno, a buddy of mine is a regional director for AT&T and his basic explanation to me was that they were basically Boost or Virgin or Cricket except they don't try to hide the fact that they're piggybacking on a bigger network. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 22:15 on Mar 9, 2016 |
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Captain Yossarian posted:Weird. Since that happened in 2013, I wonder if they did anything with it? Yeah no idea. It actually looks like it's literally just a brand name for selling AT&T, I don't think they even have their own "network" a la Cricket http://careers.gamestop.com/our-brands/spring-mobile/ e: that site reminds me that yeah, EB and Gamestop are the same company now, and also that Gamestop owns Thinkgeek and Kongregate which I did not know. Yeah, looks like they'll be around for a while yet. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 22:22 on Mar 9, 2016 |
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Phanatic posted:No, they don't. They charge you to use their uploader tool which is this thing that sits down in your system tray, looks at the directories you tell it to monitor, and whenever it sees new photos in those directories it uploads them automatically. So basically they're charging you if you want to use Flickr to bulk-upload and backup every photo you take. If you're not doing that, if you don't set it up to automatically upload everything you stick on your PC as an archive, you can just upload the same way you always have through the browser without using the uploader tool. Lol isn't that literally Google Photos
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Phanatic posted:No lol, because Google Photos downsamples and resizes every photo, similar to what Facebook does, and therefore isn't suitable as an archiving method. It's not actually storing your originals. If you rely on it as a backup and your hard drive crashes, your originals are gone.  Also the Google thing is $9.99/month for a TB but $1.99/month for 100GB and if you have more than 100GB of photos you a) probably aren't using your phone to take photos and therefore b) probably have any of a million other photo upload/storage services that aren't Flickr e: I just checked and I'm at 5.85GB of usage of which 2.06 is files on my Drive, 1.81 of which is Gmail and only 1.97GB is Photos, and I've been backing my photos up automatically for a couple years now. Also that proves another point; Google's storage by volume may be pricier than Flickr's but it's about a million times more versatile Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 01:30 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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Phanatic posted:*Free* option on Google Photos only allows images up to 16MB in size and downsamples everything. It only downsamples if the photo is larger than 16MB which begs the question why the gently caress would you be using a phone-based backup service to store photos that big Like I don't know if Flickr is your real father or something but drat dude, it's a dying brand that's offering a service that Google does for free for 95% of people, and dozens of other sites have been offering for cheaper/better/more reliable for years. I dunno why you're so die-hard over it being so great. Flickr was poo poo even back in the old days anyway, good riddance
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I'm honestly surprised that cell companies getting rid of unlimited data plans didn't kill all these music streaming apps. Eh, I stream Spotify and Google Music off my phone all the time and I rarely come close to my 4GB cap. Especially since I have wifi at work and at home. IIRC you can set both apps to switch to lower-quality streaming when you're not on wifi.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:All I gotta say is when the final nail is hammered in for the true death of retail, I hope Microcenter makes it out alive. Last minute the other day I urgently needed an HDMI to VGA adapter. Figuring 90% of the projectors in corporate offices are still VGA, I ventured to Staples with the utmost confidence that they would have one or two types for sale. Nope. Nothing. Again, this is an office supply store and a ridiculous number of offices in the corporate world still use VGA for their projectors or older plasmas. Microcenter has a great selection on obscure parts and usually half-decent prices on essentials like cables but holy poo poo is their customer service awful. There's only ever 2 people working in the DIY department and they're always busy tinkering with their friends' ridiculous rigs and always act lovely when you ask them for directions to an item. I also hate the way they bring a higher-priced item to the front instead of letting you walk it up like a big boy, and the last half-dozen times I've been there there's never more than 2 out of 9 registers open, no matter how stupid-long the line is. Really they're just lucky they timed their appearance on the market well - all the other PC retailers are dead, and nowadays DIY PC poo poo isn't as mystifying as it used to be so there's actually a decent amount of demand for it, so they're really the only ones out there if you want to get your poo poo right away.
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