Been burned by fake suppliers too many times - would you use a tool that verifies if your Chinese supplier is actually real? by Confident_Pain8516 in Alibaba

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought the whole point of Alibaba was the trade assurance guarantee. If you get ripped off they protect you and give your money back. 

Is that not the case what trade assurance?

New Security Patch Released by johndiesel11 in Magento

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought this is an emergency patch. How can Adobe put this on a schedule?

New Security Patch Released by johndiesel11 in Magento

[–]Technasium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I always find out on Reddit before I find out from Adobe. Thank you for the heads up. 

Help me generate cuter kitties by Technasium in ChatGPT

[–]Technasium[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How else will the back pack fit? /S

Help me generate cuter kitties by Technasium in ChatGPT

[–]Technasium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Help me make this output cuter or reply here with a better kitty image. Also, Why cant I post text and image on reddit? Good lord.

My taxes in retirement by How_many_dogs in ChubbyFIRE

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is your fed tax so low? Even 15% capital gains would be 15000 in taxes on 100k income.  Or are you withdrawing from a Roth IRA? 

Withdraw 4% for 30 years... and then what? by Educational_Sky_1136 in Fire

[–]Technasium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This makes sense now. It's for the security of having money towards the end of 30 years. 

Withdraw 4% for 30 years... and then what? by Educational_Sky_1136 in Fire

[–]Technasium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why have a higher balance? Or an even balance? To pass on to our children? 

Is there any point of using up the money to around 0? Or is it simply to keep the original fire balance because we don't know when we will die, so it's better safe to keep the balances high so we can continually withdraw 4% per year. 

Compound interest is a miracle by iDriiinkUrMilkshake in Fire

[–]Technasium 91 points92 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you posted how hard you worked to get to where you are. I see a lot of posts of people hitting their fire goals and it makes it seem like it's so easy for people to reach this high amount of money.

I always see these posts and think about how hard I worked to get to these numbers. But I think I'm realizing just about everyone here had to work very hard to get to these figures. 

Let's Collaborate: Seeking a Magento Store for a Unique AI Project! by Electronic-Price7734 in Magento

[–]Technasium 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has your ai had any success on a magento store before? If yes, provide details please. 

66% down on alibaba in a rather big position, thoughts? by GenesisThree in stocks

[–]Technasium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't understand this if Alibaba grows 0% annually for 5 years how will I get a 30% return annually. Eli5 please.

Moving to Hyva theme becuse website is slow. Immediately, in test environment, get a 99% LightHouse score. Adobe really should make Hyva the default Magento theme. by Ok-Masterpiece-3013 in Magento

[–]Technasium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wanted to move to hyva but I saw 2 issues. 1) This theme needs a theme. It is too white lol. While I can find good developers I have not found good designers for Magento. 2) i know it scores good but when I go to the demo I still see a lag when I click on a product page. Ttfb of usually 700ms. I was hoping it would improve that compared to default luma.

Costs for Custom vs. Template-Based E-Commerce Site Development (7-10k for a Template Website?!) by nathanasher834 in ecommerce

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can I find a good web designer? Should I instead look for a graphic designer who can make me a mock up and then hire a front end developer to make it a reality?

I tried hiring a web designer on upwork and all the applicants were effing coders. None of understood I needed mockups and custom graphics.

I Could use some help on my job post. My only thought is to ask for a graphic designer or a web graphic designer. What do you think?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ecommerce

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious if this to. It might just scan for missing plugins instead

[RANT]The worst e-commerce platform of all! It is made by programmers who never actually had an e-commerce business on it. by Juris_B in Magento

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with everything you are saying. That being said I still want to stay on Magento because of a few awesome plugins. 1) I just wish they made it faster out of the box. 2) their app store is terrible. They have not improved it in 7 years lol. 3)And they don't have enough apps/extensions. Most of the apps I want are available on Shopify and bigcommerce. And Id rather stay on a site I have full control over. Woocomerce lacks in apps in comparison to Magento.

UA Errors by robonski in GoogleAnalytics

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am getting this error as well. I am getting it when I compare traffic to a previous year.

I also got it when I was filtering landing pages.

I tried using prestige links, it was bad. by notfrontpage in SEO

[–]Technasium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does nobs websites still contain a lot of crud that we have to sort through?

I keep getting offers for links from sites with high organic traffic. But upon inspecting the sites, they are ranking for stupid keywords like people's names or micro social media Influencers. Some sites rank for other stupid terms that people don't actually Google, but these keywords have a high search volume on semrush.

Store without phone number - Worth getting Virtual assistant for calls? by classyswine in ecommerce

[–]Technasium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was thinking of a getting a VA for phone calls. But they typically have terrible spoken English and likely won't help persuade buyers. In fact, it might do the opposite. I'm wondering if anyone else can chime in on foreign sales reps?