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The "DAS KEYBOARD" (or The "The Keyboard") is an interesting piece of both "allegedly" good quality switches, piss poor design, misleading advertising (outright bullshit) and useless customer support. The pro-model. The ultimate model. They do use the apparently remarkable "Cherry" (brand) key switches, who's main claim to fame is that although gold plating can be made remarkably thin and the contact area is remarkably small, the switch contacts are gold plated - which makes them corrosion and arc resistant, and they are rated to 50 million cycles - or so they claim - you know, "press any key" + "unpress" = one cycle. This is their main claim to fame - the longevity of the key switches. "Yes the Das Keyboard (by implication) will last as long as the switches it is composed of - that's 50 million presses of each of the key switches..." But is that the actual contacts are claimed to be rated for 50M cycles? Or ...

I bought a pack of these.... The Kincrome Wood Carving Set - Buck Bros 5 Piece They do not list them on their website as wood carving tools, they classify them as "Striking & Prying" - Chisel Sets.  Only $114 - not including GST (add on 10% for your hassles) For real?  Striking and Prying - with my wood carving chisels? Here let me show you how a hammer works..... Part No: K9010 • Sizes: 1 x 1/2" Firmer Chisel 1 x 1/4" Front Gouge 1 x 1/4" Corner Chisel 1 x 1/4" Front Bent Gouge 1 x 1/2" Straight Gouge 1 x 1/4" Parting Tool • High Carbon Tool Steel • Drop Forged • Steel Cap (no there isn't) • Hardened and Tempered • Tapered Blade for Balance • All blades 3" long • Made in The USA (No they are not - the blades are made in China and the handles are molded on in the USA) And not only are they as blunt as all fuck - most of them have flat bits where the edges are supposed to be, because forget about honing them to a razors edge, they a...

Ritmo Shitmo Electronics - just fucking garbage. Presenting the Ritmo Shitmo 1000VA UPS. It's a piece of junk. So is most of their stuff actually - Hong Kong bottom dollar rebranded shit. Their worthless service is just as un-fist worthy as well. The story: I live a huge distance from Ritmo in Australia, and so given that the motherboard of the UPS is actually FUCKED - in a way that is fairly self evident, I would have thought that sending them an email with a few pictures and a barcode etc., would have been enough to persuade them to simply post me out a replacement circuit board or a new UPS. Given that they are sort of bottom dollar units.... well not the worst but not the really amazing high spec units either - just a functional UPS with Automatic Voltage Regulation and reasonable enough runtime when the power goes off.... Statistically, almost all the time I am running the computer - I am at it, or close by and so if the power goes off - I can shut it down fairly fast - within...