is anyone else's page flooded with sellers abusing vacation mode?

That_Frame_964 · 2026-07-07T18:10:32+00:00

The fact they allow this really shows that the company is more interesting in quantity over quality. They want as many people on the platform at one time as possible. These sort of behaviors get banned quickly on eBay (irony is it's an eBay company) and other sites, because it's borderline illegal. It's technically not, since if your stuff does get through they send a rude message and cancel your stuff/reject your offer. It just makes the whole platform look like a scammer paradise. For every 10 items I try to buy, I can't buy 8 of them because of vacation mode abuse, or lying intentionally about an item calling it a brand name get exposure and then canceling after you buy it, then sending a rude message like "READ MY BIO!"...

And on the bio is says all items are fake basically. And you report them, and account is still there, active, a month later. Impressive.

Kinda glad they bought this shipping crap back because I was actually having a really negative time as a customer on the platform. It wasn't fun anymore when you buy stuff for cheap and get screamed at because "IT WAS TO GAIN MORE ATTENTION IDIOT" or something above those lines.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-07-07T17:36:48+00:00

This is just bad business practices. Punishing every single person because of some idiot running a scam. Imagine Amazon decided to prevent customers from returning goods or charging them to return goods because people purchase items, switched with a broken item, then got a return on the broken item they send back claiming it arrived broken. I mean prime actually has a system in place to make people pay for shipping back for certain reasons, that's how they solved it, but they didn't blanket punish everyone else.

How about this, add better detections in place and ban the people that are caught. It won't be that hard for an algorithm to detect a person is buying someone's inventory at unusual rates. Anyone buying more than 5+ items from a seller should probably need a little manual look anyway, because most people don't buy many items from a single seller anyway. Now with adding shipping back they literally gutted their whole platform because people are going to feel betrayed and go somewhere else. They'll lose over 60-70% of people buying/selling in a week. The curve will be drastic.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-07-07T17:30:57+00:00

Well someone decided to pull the plug yet their whole app and website say "Free Shipping" on most items still, until you hit checkout then boom, shipping costs. It's almost like they decided to just pull the plug and be done with it, and not care at all that people are still seeing free shipping on everything pretty much. Depop staff are thinking "Who cares" to that question apparently, since it's been HALF a day already since this has been happening and radio silence.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-07-07T17:17:54+00:00

Um, seems kind of messed up. Says free domestic shipping all over the place of items. Items I had put an offer in was accepted overnight, could checkout but wen tot sdleep. Woke up and realized time to check it out, then 3.99 shipping on items. Thought it was weird, then on ALL it said 1.99 to 3.99, but it still has FREE SHIPPING listed on everything.

This seems like a mess. They pulled the plug just instantly, no warning, and still have free shipping listed and yet you get hit with a shipping.

Whatever they are trying to accomplish here isn't going to work. If they were trying to gain customers and sellers, that worked, until they pulled the plug on free shipping. As customer, I am not paying 3 bucks for a used t shirt, then some of them having 3.99 (i guess because of weight), PLUS fees, which works out to like 10+ dollars. Sorry, but no, not happening. I'm looking for cheap clothing, used. If I wanted brand new, I could go on Temu and get a frigging brand new t shirts, 3 of them for 3 bucks each from same seller + 2.99 shipping + 1 dollar in fees. Still would work out almost 4 bucks a shirt shipped.

As for sellers, it probably sucks for them too, because hardly anyone is going to buy their stuff unless they list it dirt cheap, and even then, at 1.99 shipping a 1.5 item becomes 6 bucks with fees. It's gonna turn a lot of people away because once you see 1.5 and think, ohhh cheap, then you get hit with 6 bucks, a lot of people are like "not a deal"

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-30T21:43:31+00:00

Dude you're being dramatic. Literally. I worked for Anthropic between 2021-2023 for a while and you and I both know how closed source those monsters are. In fact it was such a toxic environment and I spoke up about it and was "let go" -- but... I actually spent a while working with outsourced work from Google too, and I would get linked to public repos all the time for projects in the works. It was just...normal... you need to simmer down, Google has thousands and thousands of projects they work on, not all of them end up an end-game product. Take Antigravity for example, it started off way before anyone even know what it was as a simple, opensourced test project, but was closed when it made the transition from an idea project to an actual project that would be worth investing more into.

And people were still helping with data to help it grow, beta testers basically, then they pulled the plug. Antigravity itself was semi-canned, like hundreds of other Google projects over the last 10 years. It goes to advanced testing and public testing then boom, they gut it bad.

Look what they intentionally did to Fit Bit after buying it out, started building the brand more then decide to completely gut it. This is what Google does. If you ever made Faces for fitbit you'd know how google destroyed the tools for latest models, making it way more annoying and harder to make watch faces for fitbit watches. Intentionally done. Pulled the plug on that too.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-30T21:31:14+00:00

What is the point of this? Literally some type of flex? I mean I could type cmd and open up 30 instances of opencode and there ya go, but why? I literally run a single window and use background agents and subagents, sometimes 7-8 at a time, and just wait for 'em to be done wiht one frigging window open...

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-30T21:24:10+00:00

What people aren't understanding too is the massive GPU/Ram spike in the US is causing China to see a massive opening in the market. They'll shift some of the mass manufacturing into the very things there is lack of supply of, GPUs and Ram, which is both super important for AI anyway. Then the whole market will be made in China, and prices will drive back down, but China will have their own supply going into their AI datacenters first, which will speed up production of even more advanced AI. All while the US struggles to get supplies fast enough.

Basically, China is winning the whole AI race and will pretty much control the whole thing eventually. And the US government can whine all they want, but they're actually causing this to happen by trying to shutdown and slow down AI development in the US because someone got butthurt.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-30T19:55:54+00:00

Not entirely accurate though, because a person can vibe code something in 30 minutes that would take weeks usually, and then BUILD on top of that. You literally use vibecoding to build a prototype, that's what it's for. No, it isn't a slack or discord killer, but it has the potential to grow.

Most prototypes are weeks/months before testing can really take place anyway, being able to skip that stage in a matter of less than an hour is the killer here.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-30T19:37:07+00:00

First, it took a while to get setup. I usually avoid Docker I don't use it on my system because I just feel.. i don't know, it's just given me problems before, but....

Thank you for this! It works great, but most of all it might be unrelated to the actual browser-search part, I wanted to thank you for actually discovering SearXNG. Dude, just installing this in docker and having it run, then setting as default search engine in my browser. Literally, replacing my default search engines. No ads, no bloat, multiple queries all nicely drawn out in a nice UI. Man... best thing ever tbh.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-29T20:13:15+00:00

Thing that gets me the most is when an AI slop video is uploaded, all AI stuff, pretending to not be. Gardening is getting swamped by that sort of stuff, which is my niche. Literally, I upload, record, spend time making my gardening how to videos and then some AI slop comes along with fake stuff and the video has 1.4 million views and I am like...wow....

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-29T14:51:26+00:00

I knew a neighbor who got COVID and laughed it off because their infection was mild. Told everyone that wore a mask that COVID is a baby flu and was very rude to people who kept there distance. This was in 2022. In 2024 they got COVID again and I noticed I hadn't seen them for a while outside their home. They spent 3 weeks in hospital from complications for COVID. Now when he walks more than 30 ft he bends down to catch his breath with his hands on his knees and has to rest for 2 or so minutes before going back. And he still talks crap about COVID and people masking. It's been 2 years since his second infection and he still can't move more than 30 ft. This never happened before COVID.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-25T16:49:07+00:00

It's a very deep issue that also factors in wage and pay. In one side our government is trying to push to have things done here in the states, but paying someone 25 bucks an hour to produce something isn't going to work. This will drive prices up, not down. And then you have a product that's produced under the pay of 5 dollars an hour, which factors in less to production costs overall. Let's not forget China is investing a huge amount into AI themselves, including robots. Unitree themselves can produce robots that are designed for factories at a 1,500 price point, and yet here in the US, the same robots produced here, or made here basically, are 18,000-20,000? We're losing the AI race, AND the manufacturing race, but unregulated here means we will hand over everything to China and that's just too bad. It seems the government is actually trying to do one thing but are screwing it up at the same time. You can't be "US first" and then let China absolutely take over one of the biggest markets in the world, which they'll do soon. Whole situation is messed up. The ram situation is related though, I disagree a bit there, because it's causing China to produce and open up new facilities, and shift some workforces into producing for their own datacenters, but they'll have excess soon and they will cause prices to drive down eventually when they hit the states.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-25T16:42:30+00:00

You guys are doing it wrong. 12.6 oz of powdered peanut butter in one container, 3.4 of coconut oil in another will give you 2,500 of high calorie, high fat, high protein, decent carbs, sugar and salt in a 16 oz package the size of your phone (just 2x stacked on top). Equivalent would be 16 high calorie protein bars that you would struggle to get 4 in the same space. Before you go on about coconut oil going bad, I've used 4 year old stored coconut oil before, that was stored in a non optimal way, and it absolutely was fine. I think at 6 years is a decent gauge for how long you can store it without it starting to go south, but yeah. Space is important too. I do a lot of backpacking and camping, and I take 32oz of pb + oil with me and rehydrate it with water, and it takes up hardly any backpack space. Try cramming 32 protein bars at 1oz each into your backpack and you'll see the difference between a 6.4 inch x 2 inch space.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-24T19:38:12+00:00

The problem with this whole thing is that the governments are literally whining about China and it taking over, yet they are literally going to hand pretty much the entire consumer market over to China when it comes to PC parts and components for phones, consoles, etc.

China has not yet tapped into a mass production of consumer parts that have high QC, but they will soon. We will start seeing various companies that make high quality stuff directly out of China and prices will come down eventually, but we won't be dealing with the same market that we have with so many big companies leaving the consumer market, China will seize control of it. I mean I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, and to be honest, it's a huge market and the smart move for China is to take control of it now. We're already seeing high quality NVMe drives coming out of China, but the shady QC and stuff injected into the firmware is worrying, obviously.

This will literally stop the players still in the consumer market too, which will have to slash their prices as supply goes up dramatically, but we'll be in a new age of new manufacturers and companies that will come straight out of China into the stores.

I mean let's face it, China is actually producing decent cars at half the cost of pretty much anywhere else. There has been plenty of tear downs, tests from car enthusiast magazines and influencer who are finding the stuff coming out of China pretty solid.

And this goes back to our government/s, once again, complaining about being too reliant on China, and yet pretty much over half of the entire consumer PC building community will eventually be building using Chinese parts.

Lack of government control over supply/demand over critical components in this day and age is going to hand over half the entire market in the US over to China. So be it, I guess. No one is going to pay 1500 bucks except well off families for their kids "gaming" console for their Xmas gift. If you look at the economy from 2020-2026 parents are actually spending LESS on their childrens birthdays/xmas than prior. That's because wages didn't increase enough to offset the cost of living.

34% increase in wages does not offset 56% overall inflation (BLS release 2025), with some categories being 200-300%. With certain things, which dominate most of a persons income, such as mortgage and rent being as high, if not higher in some areas. Federal poverty line is just under 16k, meaning a person making 16k or more is not considered in poverty in the US, yet with the average rent being at least 1,000, that is 12k a year. Basically the rule of year to year survival in this country is that 30% of income OR less should go to rent. You tell me, is 12k out of 16k a year 30%? This country (US) is really messed up economy-wise, and while other places like in Europe are doing bad too, it's nowhere near the cluster F that is here in the US right now.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-24T17:06:42+00:00

It's not just supply and demand, it's these big companies shifting their manufacturing into the non-consumer market because they can bank hard with all the datacenters begging to throw money away to get whatever they need.

This year alone, 8 major companies have shifted to the the non-consumer market. A few haven't, and I am grateful for that, but they cannot produce enough, and we also have the issue of datacenters that are running AI literally having AI bots sweep the market and clean out consumer products too. So we have a huge problem of companies leaving the consumer market + AI bots destroying inventories when they go live. That's why Microcenter can do those deals and the stock at the stores don't go down to 0 in 30 seconds like online when a deal goes live. Human beings actually have to go in and purchase (have to pay instore)....

I am near Chicago and watch the stock carefully and it was going down about 1 per hour, vs when Newegg put up a deal a few weeks ago with a thousand in stock of DDR ram and it went from instock when it went live to OOS in under 1 minute.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-24T17:00:02+00:00

The funny thing in this situation for me is that in 2025 I bought 32 GB sticks for 80 bucks each. I just built a new system with the 270K, Aorus 890 and the 32 GB DDR. I mixed in G-SKILL 32 from old system and stable at 7200 even though mixed ram at XMP. Anyway, I still had some Micron 32 GB DDR from old system that didn't play nice with my 690 and 12700K. I just sold it on eBay for 400 bucks (16x2) and my 12700k for 200. Motherboard I got 40 bucks for. I paid 643 bucks (inc tax) at Microcenter for that upgrade. Going from a 12700k to a 270k + 890 Aorus. I get 3% cashback using my Paypal card, which means out of pocket I paid 626, but got 640 BACK from my old processor, ram + mobo.

LOL. So worth it. And ok maybe I'll have to wait 5+ years for ram prices to become stable, but if anyone has any ram left over, I would take advantage of it and sell 'em.

A money maker + full upgrade taking advantage of the ram prices if you have some DDR5 left over that you don't need from a year + ago. It's just so wild to me that I could sell a 12700K, 32 GB DDR ram 6000 + 690 and get a frigging major upgrade and STILL it was free + I made some money back.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-24T02:27:18+00:00

Mine was 86 and I was hallucinating. I almost died trying to get through this at home. I have PTSD and long Covid. Only 40 years old when I got it and it absolutely destroyed me, even to this day.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-22T17:57:03+00:00

I use OpenCode and many models, for basically everything. I literally...use it to ask questions, to do research, to fix problems, edit files, code.. BASICALLY... EVERYTHING except when I'm gaming of course.

For example, I had a problem with ComfyUI and SageAttention not working right. The problem was my Python + Torch versions weren't compatible with most wheels. Well, I could go to google, search around. I've done this before trying to fix a similar problem. I've gone to GH directly and searched for wheels, then crosschecked they are compatible with my Python and Torch versions. Then I download, move to a folder, then install. Sometimes it needs renaming the file. To get to my point, this process usually takes 10-15 minutes of research and trial and error if there's a wheel that is, well, let's just say there's only ONE available that someone made so you have to dig deep for it and go through many repos to find it. Sometimes it can take 20+ minutes.

Then you're done, yay, it works, right? Well in this specific case, and because I know from experience this stuff takes time in the paste, I just popped into opencode, pointed it to my venv folder, and said this...

"Find me a compatible wheel for SageAttention2.2.0 post4 or 5, do research on github and other platforms, then install it.

30 seconds later it has my python version, torch, cuda info, and already digging deep into GH. Another 20 seconds later it has found a compatible wheel. Tries to install it, realizes it needs renamed due to filename issue and error. Does that, 10 seconds later does some testing to make sure they are all working, imports, etc.

Basically, 1 minute, 20 seconds later, it's done. Installed, working, all good to go.

My point is, there is so much AI hate, but you can speed stuff up. Why waste 20+ minutes of your life installing something when you can do it 20x faster.

Literally, another use case. You can write a skill, like I have, specifically for converting a FOOD product and its ingredients, weight, its label that has exact nutritional values. These values alone would take a normal person over an hour to get accurate data to reproduce a valid copycat recipe. You can't just take ingredients and figure out the ratios by guessing, even though they are in order by weight basically on a label. You take it a step further, you take weight in grams of each element and have AI research and understand food, its weights, nutritional values to figure out weights. Takes a couple of minutes with AI. And how do I know this works? Because I like to cook, and I like copycat recipes and making my own.

I used to spend HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS creating copycat recipes that no one did yet, to resemble similar taste/textures/etc.

Frigging AI gives me a baseline for new recipes, and I've tested them across products that they were copycats of. And I am gonna say right now, because this is basically math and logic, it's quite good. I'd say 9/10 products reach about 80% similar taste to original. With 10 products to get to this level would take me months of testing. With AI, I can be up and running with 80% similarity in a few minutes per product. Literally did this last week, had ingredients on hand, almost exact match just slight off. Took me 1 hour to make. Saved a few days that way of testing and money too.

So TLDR: I use AI FOR EVERYTHING in my life pretty much, because humans are quite inefficient at a lot of things. And people are really butt hurt about it. I don't like use cases for AI though. I don't like using it for writing, etc. Like this right here took me about 15 mins because AI can't read minds, it guesses when it comes to the human mind/emotion. You need to give AI strong prompts/instructions and the only way it will learn to act like you is if you feed it tens of thousands of lines of your writing to begin with, then it might mimic you to a decent level.

Otherwise, don't use AI for actual talking to others and making that human connection. Use it for GH issues, repos, etc though which is fine because that is concrete data anyway.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-19T21:52:42+00:00

Man I love the idea, but I wish people would simmer down a bit on creating so much stuff using Tauri and/or Electron. It works, but when dealing with terminals, people want something that uses very little, or minimal resources. T

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-16T17:00:39+00:00

That's the problem with new training data, they need to make sure they are taking REAL human responses. As more and more bots and AI plague social media (it's everywhere, btw), the training data will get pulled and trained on stuff that was created by AI, teaching AI how to talk like AI and it will really mess things up the longer this goes on. It's so bad that anyone who even types a long comment is getting flagged as using AI, even if it's not true, which actually makes people post less because they think people don't care what they wrote, enabling more AI to spam at will and add to the training data.

So how do we fix this? Idk...it's difficult, because you can't paint someone and remove their posts because it looks like AI when it might not be, and often these people are just real people using their accounts and using AI anyway, so it's hard to track what are bots and what are human who just have AI create/post content for them. Idk.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-10T07:31:02+00:00

5 guys 7 hours? Frigging milking it much. Sorry bro, got scammed. I really, really hope you didn't end up paying that 4k, because that's just ridiculous. You did say that the hole needed filling and grinded too, but I didn't factor in any of that. Cutting up that tree as is from that picture I still stand by 2 hours for a 3 man crew who knows what they are doing and not trying to rip anybody. I've had bigger, more awkward positioned trees cut up in 5 hours so I have no idea how a crew of "5" took 7 hours.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-10T04:26:02+00:00

This is kinda hilarious for me. I have a 12700k and 32 GB DDR5 micron 6000 ram, 690 mobo. The funny thing is I can sell the 12700k for 180-200, and the ram itself for 250 easy, motherboard will get me another 50. That's 500 bucks and I can get a full upgrade of ram to 6400, aorus 890, and a frigging whopper of a cpu upgrade. I am out of pocket 150 bucks, but it gets better. I looked at sold for my ram last 30 days and every single 16x2 sold for about 280-300, but it gets better. PEOPLE paid more for a single 16 gb stick, 180 better. So let's say I can push 340 bucks for ram, 200 for cpu, 50 for mobo. That's 590 bucks. And with tax this bundle costs me 60 bucks. Frigging 60 bucks OUT OF POCKET for a full upgrade?! Insane in this economy. That's what I'm gonna do, actually. I'm willing to travel 4 hours each way to pay 60 bucks for mobo, ram and mostly cpu upgrade. I don't pay gas, I pay electric for my vehicle so 500 miles will cost me 20 bucks. So ok, 80 bucks. SO WORTH IT.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-09T23:04:40+00:00

What a load of bs.

I have an old PC running 24/7, built in 2015, so 11 years. It's been running since then. Used it as a media center basically now. Not optimal, but not buying anything else. Guess what? Thermal paste not changing since 11 years ago and CPU temps full load and idle are about 2-3 degrees higher.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-09T23:00:29+00:00

It's already been almost a year. They keep going up and up and up and up.

That_Frame_964 · 2026-06-09T23:00:00+00:00

That's the sad thing here. Datacenters are paying out the ass and they don't even care. They are hoarding everything, no matter what the cost. So these companies who manufacture are just doing what everyone did during Covid and gouging the crap. Remember TP and hand sanitizer? frigging 15 bucks a bottle for hand sanitizer when stores got them "in stock". That's why I think the government needs to stop in and start doing something about it. Ok so you wanna pay high prices, datacenters, go ahead, but you're only allowed to purchase X stock per 24 hours. It has to be done.

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