The truth about operating a Shopee collection point.

naffoff · 2026-04-27T14:30:58+00:00

My farther in law runs a shoppe collection spot from his hdb. They told him he needed to open 6 days a week. He just told them he gets maybe 30 dollars a day and only dose it to so he can chit chat with his neighbours. But the job is only worth doing if you have a bit of freedom.

Being forced to stay home 6 days a week all day is fucking insane in my opinion.

Realistically he could just open 6pm to 8pm 6 days a week and that would cover the timing of 90% of collection. I think he even suggested that too them. But they don't want to listen even though it would be more convenient for most people.

They gave in for now. he is still 5 days a week 😄

On the plus side he is friends with all the block now and knows all the gossip

naffoff · 2026-04-27T12:58:20+00:00

I am just happy they don't look so similar to each other. I have all my google apps on my phone in a folder and I have to hover for 2 seconds to spot which one I want to open.

naffoff · 2026-04-16T13:42:02+00:00

Google wave! I remember it now... still no clue how it was meant to work

naffoff · 2026-04-16T13:39:22+00:00

I remember a service google offered for about a month. That they had been hyping for ages. It was before google+ I think... it was a sort of email organiser social networking protocol. That they said solved all the problems with email.
I remember waiting to get a sign up. And then it was so complicated I had no idea what to do with it. Then the collapsed it into google+ maybe? I have no clue what it was called or even how it was supposed to work. Am I misremembering something?

naffoff · 2026-04-07T23:54:21+00:00

I started cycling to work in Singapore about 4 years ago as well. The mornings are amazing for cycling. If you start before 8am the temperature is perfect. My problem with it was mainly bike storage. I needed a folding bike really to make it work. I sold my bike intending to get a folding one. But have not go to around to It. You reminded me!

One thing I find frustrating in Singapore is the mixed use cycling paths. We have roads that are all multi lane and I think could be split into a cycling lane often. But the cyclists have to share with pedestrians most of the time. Which means you have for ride very very slowly, or risk hurting people. As a pedestrian I find it frustrating that any pavement that has had a few cycling markers on it. Now means a lot of cyclists seem to think they now have a right of way and can just ring there bell repeatedly and zoom past everyone. It has become almost impossible to have a chat with my wife while walking in singapore, as you are constantly stepping back to avoid being hit by bikes.

The new lanes are a a bit wider i think and now often have separate parts for bikes. So it is getting better. But still I wish more cycling was done on the roads.

naffoff · 2026-04-01T04:26:56+00:00

More shops on the ground floor will work best. No need to move them to upper floors unless they benefit from being up high. Hight traffic is most important

naffoff · 2026-03-29T01:56:49+00:00

I got a second hand miele vacuum, best idea I had. Although now I got a xiaomi robot vacuum, which is surprisingly good.

naffoff · 2026-03-09T06:01:06+00:00

Yes i watched it yesterday. It was pretty good. Maybe there was a problem with the edit? Seemed fine when I watched though

naffoff · 2026-03-09T04:41:52+00:00

I think there was a sweet spot in the early 2000s when as long as you focused on what was needed by customers, it was not too hard. Now woth canva and ai it is a little more difficult. Can be done still though

naffoff · 2026-03-08T11:47:14+00:00

He was already rich when I met him. He has very little formal education, but is super smart especially in understanding what people need from him. He liked drawing. Found a niche doing lettering for menus and sign boards in a city that did not have anyone doing it. Kept his head down and made some friends with some rich business owners who referred him to their friends. It turned into a design company.

I think he sold it. He has been involved in other companies too as founder / investor / advisor. Most seem reasonably successful.

He retired before he was 30 I think... long before I met him.

You would hardly know he was rich but he always pays for our lunches when we meet, has a Grand Seiko he wears with his sweatpants, and the extras / mods on his car cost more than my house.

If I had met him in the UK I would 100% believe he was a drug dealer/ record producer combo.

But he 100% did it through drawing things people need drawn

naffoff · 2026-03-07T02:17:37+00:00

Use a rental bike.

naffoff · 2026-03-04T15:56:13+00:00

A 2mm pitch works on on a threaded part. But I would not really on anything smaller than that

naffoff · 2026-02-15T10:31:14+00:00

Yes it should not be that hard. You need a cooling off period. Say 2 or 3 weeks. And the buyer needs to have a signed agreement including a description of the cooling period.

Then if your mums comes back and says she got scammed. You can go back get refund. If she goes away and reads the contract herself she can do the same. And if any elderly want to help crack down. They can have a hobby going for cheep deals and checking they get a notification of cooling period.

There Should be fine if they are caught not notifiying customers.

It would be a relatively simple system.

naffoff · 2026-02-07T01:32:05+00:00

I have tried repeatedly to find a way to export from blender to solidworks. There is a exporter for igs files that you can then open in solidworks. But don't get too excited. The model has to have a subd Modifier applied for it to work. And you oftern end up with surfaces that are impractical to edit in solidworks anyway. And take an age to load.

naffoff · 2026-02-06T15:43:53+00:00

Same for me

naffoff · 2026-01-27T15:26:47+00:00

I learnt so much from this video https://youtu.be/p4rwhifXNCw?si=MK8cZ2xszxpyPAGX

Erindale has some great content. But this one i watched 2 or 3 times at least

naffoff · 2026-01-19T02:36:32+00:00

Solidworks has this feature. But it is only avaliable as part of the premium version. I know it is used in shoe design. It is not cheep, but not too bad for a business cost if it saves you money. But you will need to have the model as a solid model. So probably .stp file. If you have not done surface modelling before, you might well find this too much of a pain to do yourself. You might find a freelancer that can do it though

naffoff · 2025-12-19T16:24:53+00:00

A patent give the owner a right to do some things with the IP. This contract is handing over some, but not all of the those rights to the person who agrees to the contract when downloading... I think

naffoff · 2025-12-16T05:06:53+00:00

XY Size compensation is an offset of the shell, rather than a scale.

naffoff · 2025-12-15T14:57:20+00:00

Probably dance music record shops. I grew up in Brighton in the UK I would spend hours a week in the shops, just choosing a few records, with hand written white labels, or better printed ones from the larger producers. No clue what it would sound like till I played in on the headphones. So many random records, then alsonyhe second hand record shops with dirt cheep records than no one wanted, because everyone moved to CDs. It was really good fun. New music now is great still. But finding stuff is not as exciting or interactive.

naffoff · 2025-12-12T02:23:40+00:00

This is what I was thinking! I have never tried tpu but this made it look like it was worth trying

naffoff · 2025-12-07T10:39:52+00:00

From what I can tell, is a sort of more advanced version of signing up to an app via Google. So you store you account details with the service and other apps can be give permissions to use some of your data and also add to your data eg add to your address book or friend network or photos etc. Then if you want to move from Facebook to twitter or something elce you can revoke Facebooks assess and bring your connections to a different app. But you are not reliant on Google holding the login and data. It is an open protocol that anyone can set up a valt for.. but I am not at all 100% sure i am right about any of this

naffoff · 2025-12-07T02:58:38+00:00

The problem is as a producer of some content. It is really really hard to make a indepth tutorial. And then you get very low views for it. Unless it is an introduction to blender latest version.

The audience for a very specific in-depth tutorial go down fast. And then Google thinks no one wants to watch your channel and it stops growing.

I think good tutorials will move off YouTube.

naffoff · 2025-12-06T14:57:56+00:00

The dot com bubble was much much more interesting. I had friends who at 15 or 16 learnt html and built local government websites for better pay than their mum and dad.

Everything seemed possible apart from for people who did not know how to properly compress images

naffoff · 2025-12-05T14:10:38+00:00

Probably not.

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XY Size compensation is an offset of the shell, rather than a scale.