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• Website Down (62%)
• Sign in (24%)
• Errors (14%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Chilly-Mazarin	Website Down	1 hour ago
Essen	Website Down	1 hour ago
Manchester	Website Down	3 hours ago
Manaus	Website Down	4 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	15 hours ago
Macclesfield	Website Down	16 hours ago

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  Reboticon (@Reboticant) reported 4 minutes ago

  @WillieDJenkins1 the roomba at least does not do row by row it builds a map in its memory based on what it bounces off of and fills it in, and when it spots particular ***** spots does little circles around them and then heads off someone where else. Supposedly the new ones maintain memory of the rooms and so improve with time but idk. My roomba discoveries work on carpet. I actually bought them from ebay a few years ago when they were still more pricey. Amazon had off brand chinese replacement parts, and getting broken used ones were really cheap and i found the manual on ifixit or somewhere and just made a good one for cheaper than a new one and had a bunch of spare parts

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  0xAI42.exe (@0xAI42exe) reported 5 minutes ago

  A $500,000 check written in 2004 turned into more than a billion dollars by 2012. The same man watched his own hedge fund fall from $7 billion to about $350 million. His name is Peter Thiel. He is 58. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Two years later he became the first outside investor in Facebook, taking 10.2 percent for half a million dollars. Then Clarium Capital, his global macro fund, peaked above $8 billion in 2008 and posted three straight losing years. Investors who stayed lost 65 percent from the peak. By 2011 the fund held roughly $350 million. So the man teaching you how to think about competition has been on both sides of being wrong in public. The framework fits on a napkin. Perfect competition destroys profit, so build the thing nobody else can offer. Start with a market small enough to dominate, then widen. Look for proprietary technology ten times better than the alternative, network effects, scale economics, and a brand people ask for by name. Value the last mover, not the first. "Competition is for losers." That is the title he put on a Wall Street Journal essay in September 2014, adapted from the book he wrote out of a Stanford class he taught in 2012. A student named Blake Masters posted his notes from that class online for free, and the notes went viral before the book existed. at the board it's simple. one company sold for $1.5 billion, one check compounded two thousand times, one fund down ninety-five percent from peak assets. the same brain produced all three. no magic. concentration into an idea almost nobody shares, held long enough to be measured. here is where it lines up with every founder reading this. you already know your product is a slightly better version of something people already buy. you will still call the crowded market validation, raise on comparables, and describe five competitors as proof of demand in the same deck where you claim to be different. the class notes are free. the essay is free. this talk is free. what nobody can sell you is the willingness to answer his actual question in writing: what important truth do very few people agree with you on. That willingness is the edge, and it costs an honest page, not another pitch deck.

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  NextFin (@NextFinAI) reported 5 minutes ago

  $EBAY eBay reported Q2 revenue of $3.13B against a $3.02B estimate, with GMV of $22.4B beating the $21.57B consensus by nearly $1 billion. Adjusted EPS of $1.60 beat the $1.51 estimate by 6%. First-party advertising revenue grew 25% year over year to $570M. Q3 revenue guidance of $3.07B to $3.12B also cleared the $2.97B estimate. The stock is roughly flat after hours, down just 1.5% from the regular close of $109.47. The Depop acquisition adds texture to the Q3 picture. The deal closed on July 30 at $1.4B, $200M above the $1.2B announced price due to purchase price adjustments. Depop adds roughly 7 million active buyers under 34 and will lift reported GMV starting in Q3, but Wells Fargo estimated integration marketing costs will reduce Q3 EPS by approximately $0.15. That explains why Q3 EPS guidance of $1.36 to $1.42 slightly misses the $1.44 consensus even as revenue guidance beats. Accretion to non-GAAP operating income is not expected until 2028. The quieter background story is GameStop's ongoing $125 per share takeover bid from Ryan Cohen, representing roughly a 14% premium to the current price. That bid has not been resolved and remains an event risk that could surface on tonight's call. eBay's core business is executing well, advertising monetization is accelerating, and the AI-driven catalog and listing tools are beginning to show measurable results. The Depop integration is the near-term earnings overhang, but the revenue trajectory supports the case that eBay's marketplace turnaround is real and broadening

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 6 minutes ago

  In 2003 a thirty-two-year-old Elon Musk gave the Stanford talk founders still pass around twenty years later. He was invited to speak at Stanford's Graduate School of Business by a class of MBA students who wanted to hear from someone actually building companies instead of teaching cases about them. He walked in, sat down, and talked for forty-five minutes without a single slide. By that point he had already sold Zip2 to Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars and had cleared roughly one hundred and eighty million from the PayPal sale to eBay the year before. He had used most of that money to start SpaceX in the spring of 2002. In the fall of 2003, SpaceX had zero launches, roughly thirty employees, and a runway that was going to run out inside two years. He talked about how to start a company when nobody believes in the market. How to cut costs when the cash pile is shrinking every week. How to think from first principles instead of from analogy. How to stay alive long enough for luck to matter. The most striking part of the tape is not the advice. It is the tone. He is calm. He is quiet. He is thirty-two years old and running a company that is trying to build rockets, and he speaks about it the way a project manager describes a Kanban board. Twenty years later that same man owns SpaceX, Tesla, xAI and X. His net worth crossed four hundred billion dollars at the end of 2024. The rocket company he was running on empty in 2003 now launches more mass into orbit than the rest of the world combined. The talk is on YouTube. It has been posted, taken down, reposted, and re-uploaded dozens of times. It never breaks a hundred thousand views on any single upload because it does not have a thumbnail hook or a title that promises secrets. It is just forty-five minutes of a man who had not yet become anything explaining, in flat prose, how to survive when nobody has backed you yet. I watched it for the first time in 2019 during a stretch of my own company where I was three months from running out of cash. Nothing in the talk was tactical enough to save me. What it did do was give me permission to keep going for another quarter, which turned out to be all I needed. The Musk who gave that talk did not know what he would become. Neither did the students in the room. That is the actual value of the tape. You watch him before he was Elon Musk.

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  Trade Research Ai (@TheBenchTrades) reported 7 minutes ago

  AMD Beat Every Line But One Data center revenue doubled. Gross margin missed by 200 basis points. Only one of those numbers is in the pre-market tape. AMD did $11.5 billion in revenue, up 50% year over year. Data center did $6.72 billion, up 107%, now 58% of the company. EPS came in at $1.66 against $1.55 expected. Q3 guidance points to roughly $13 billion. The stock is down 8.8% before the bell at $472.90, against a $518.58 close. The gap is gross margin: 54% against a 56% consensus, with management pointing at near-term costs from the Helios AI infrastructure ramp. Two hundred basis points. That is the entire distance between a blowout and a $46 haircut, and it says the bar moved without anyone announcing it. Growth stopped being the scoreboard. What the growth costs is. Then watch what the tape did with that information. NVDA is up 2.2% at $216.52, above yesterday's $213.06 high, on a night its closest competitor doubled data center revenue. That is not sympathy selling or rotation. That is the market reading AMD's margin compression as evidence NVDA's pricing power is intact and AMD is buying share with gross margin. Same headline, opposite conclusion. OVERNIGHT Asia ran hot. The Nikkei closed +3.66% at 66,300, Topix +2.13% at 4,046, KOSPI up more than 3%, chasing Tuesday's record closes here. The catalyst was not AI. It was reports of an interim US-Iran agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. THE TAPE WTI $75.40, down a third straight session. Brent near $78, off 1%. The 30-year sits at 5.17%, the 10-year at 4.62%, the 2-year at 4.21%. DXY 99.83. Gold $4,095. Bitcoin $64,149, still roughly 44% below where it traded a year ago while equities print records. VIX 16.49. TLT +0.25%, HYG +0.09% - credit is not flinching. Regime read: risk-on, but the fuel is a peace headline, not an earnings cycle. That distinction matters more than usual. With CPI at 3.5% and fed funds at 3.75%, rate futures had roughly a third of the market positioned for a hike into the July meeting, and the 30-year at 5.17% is near its highest since 2007. Cheaper crude is the only thing currently pushing back on that. If Hormuz slips, the bid under this index goes with it. TODAY'S CALENDAR 8:15a ET - ADP employment, 120K expected vs 98K prior 9:45a - S&P Global Services PMI final, 51.5 expected 10:00a - ISM Services, 54.2 expected 10:30a - EIA crude inventories, carrying more weight than usual today 3:05p - Fed Governor Cook speaks Before the bell: LLY ($8.84 est), UBER ($0.83), SHOP ($0.37), GFS ($0.41). Already out: DIS $2.06 vs $1.86, CVS $2.58 vs $1.84. After: APP ($3.75), MELI ($8.95), DASH ($0.48), AXON ($1.52), EXPE ($5.06), EBAY ($1.45), WDC ($3.27), MSI ($3.77). THE LEVELS SPY - 774.46 pre-market, above yesterday's 773.41 high. 771.33 is the record close and the gate. Hold it and the breakout is live. Lose 760.52, yesterday's low, and Tuesday's entire gap is in play down to 757.67. QQQ - 723.51, flat. 725.66 is the ceiling. The problem is underneath: yesterday's low at 707.53 is 2.2% down with no structure in between. An unfilled gap nobody is defending pre-market. AMD - 472.90 sits just under the 475.76-476.15 shelf from July 31. Reclaim 484.64, the Aug 3 close, and the print is absorbed. Lose 455.30 and the next real floor is 424.03. NVDA - 216.52. Has to hold 213.06 on the cash open or the pre-market is a fake. Board check: GOOGL +1.3% at 382.46, AMZN +0.8%, MSFT +0.4%, MU -1.7% at 877.23, SMCI -0.9%. LTH has no pre-market print. THE READ The narrative says the AI trade is one trade. This morning's tape says it has split into suppliers and share-buyers, and it is paying only the first. AMD delivered the best growth quarter in its history and lost 8.8% because it cost two points of margin to get there. NVDA did nothing overnight and gained 2.2%. Confirms it: AMD stays under 476 while NVDA holds 213.06 into the close. Invalidates it: AMD reclaims 484.64 and NVDA loses 213.06 in the same session. Then this was just profit-taking on a stock that ran 7.0% into its own print, the complex still trades as one block, and the split is a story we told ourselves. The index, meanwhile, is at a record on the strength of a shipping lane. Watch the 10:30 crude number as closely as the ISM. Proof, not hype. @TheBenchTrades. Not financial advice. Educational only.

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  ᵇᵉᶜᵏʸ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵃⁱⁿˡᵉˢˢ ʰᵉʳᵒ (@DPRKjr) reported 8 minutes ago

  when i was a kid i really wanted one of those 70's flip clocks but by the time i finally tracked one down on ebay discovered they were actually kinda noisy, same with wind up alarm clocks

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  Arjun Iyer (@arjuniyer_) reported 10 minutes ago

  1/ Earlier in his OpenSpec series, Austin Xu (Senior Engineering Manager at eBay) flagged a problem: agents ship changes in seconds, CI feedback shows up 20 minutes later, and by then the agent has moved on to the next task. He named @signadot as a possible fix. Then he actually tested it. His new post covers the full setup: live integration checks running inside the agent's loop, validated against real services, with the full eval log published. Really appreciate him putting in the work to do such a thorough evaluation. Link in the comments 🧵

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  Mike RiBiereo (@Mike_RiBiereo) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Pete___Hughes You got your credentials off Ebay. You a huge loser with mental problems. Got get help, Mr I cOuLd HaVe MaDe tHe NhL bUt I GoT HuRT

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  Valkyrie Honeybadger (@HoneybadgerNo1) reported 19 minutes ago

  @ValueAddedRS @tblunt80 Insult to injury is when it is brought to eBays attention on a telephone call, they twisted themselves into a pretzel to NOT have the conversation about their AI missing it when the original seller listed it and then flagging it as counterfeit when I listed it for resale. There is a two tier problem with this really. The AI on eBay is very poor. The eBay response to addressing the poor AI is also very bad. They want to force this into me returning the item as "not described" to push the metric on to the original seller. Going that route will not raise the issue where it squarely belongs for corrective action which is: the eBay AI system is very poor and needs to be improved.

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  BusinessB (@bryanbarry2823) reported 23 minutes ago

  @DRULZ29 @CardPurchaser @eBay I agree, listed the card the same way it was sold to me. I think its crazy to have to put excellent down on the assumption you know they will make a mistake. It sucks. I'm genuinely upset for the buyer. EBAY NEEDS TO MAKE THIS RIGHT. Not me. Only graded listing here on out

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  Dram McCloudigan (@dreamcloudigan) reported 25 minutes ago

  @evan12286 @jake2b Damn, so picture this at the water cooler: some dude on X is freaking out that GameStop shareholders would never vote to take the company private because of all the dilution and those mythical naked shorts. Then another guy fires back, “Bro, only the *registered* shares get to vote. If your broker was just handing out IOUs instead of actual stock, that’s *their* problem—not GameStop’s. The real owners will just rubber-stamp the private deal.” You’re over there nodding like, “Yeah, that tracks. It’s basically voter ID for stocks. Show up with the real certificate or sit down.” And then the boring-but-true legal reality drops: the company literally only looks at its own official list. Street-name shares get to whisper their votes through the broker, but if the broker overpromised, the company just shrugs and counts what’s on the books. Delaware law basically says “not our circus.” Meanwhile the stock just got diluted by a $1.4 billion debt-for-equity swap yesterday and everyone’s still arguing about eBay, so the whole “take it private” thing is pure speculative chaos… but the “only real shares vote” part? Straight-up common sense dressed in a suit.

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  gman (@blueroadliner) reported 30 minutes ago

  @eBay There never have been more scamming, dishonest, or incompetent sellers on Ebay or mor difficult to get help or a phone call from Ebay with a customer problem. It is disgusting.

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  Commodore Computer Museum 🕹 (@MuseumCommodore) reported 30 minutes ago

  RAMaggedon is real! The current console gaming industry is scary — it’s on the edge of real trouble. AI companies and data centers are vacuuming up so much RAM and high-bandwidth memory that Xbox and PlayStation are getting crushed on costs, prices, and sales. Key facts right now (mid-2026): - AI data centers are projected to consume roughly 70% of the world’s memory chip production this year (IDC / Wall Street Journal reports). The three big memory makers (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron) have shifted capacity heavily toward High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) for AI accelerators because those customers pay far more. - Console memory and storage costs have already jumped more than 2.5×. Microsoft expects them to roughly double again by fall 2027. - Xbox price hikes: Microsoft just announced another round (effective August) — $100–$150 increases. Series S 512GB goes to $499, 1TB to $599; Series X 1TB models hit $750–$800. This is the third major hike in a little over a year. Consoles are now 30–40% more expensive than a year ago. - PlayStation price hikes: Sony already raised PS5 prices by as much as $150 earlier in 2026 (standard models around $650, Pro near $900). - Sales collapse: In May 2026 (U.S. Circana data), PS5 unit sales dropped 58% year-over-year — lowest May total in 25 years. Xbox Series hardware recorded its worst May on record. Average price paid for a new console hit $502 (up 14% from last year). - Next-gen hardware is in limbo: Reports indicate Sony is considering delaying the PS6 successor as far as 2028 or even 2029 because of the memory costs. Analysts warn the next Xbox/PS could launch at $900–$1,200 if the crunch continues. Overall console shipments are forecast to fall ~19.5% in 2026. The old console model — subsidized hardware while making money on games/services — is breaking because the same silicon that used to get cheaper over a generation is now being bid up by AI hyperscalers who can pay almost any price. Microsoft is on both sides of this, with their huge AI data-center spender and being the Xbox maker, which only makes the conflict more obvious… and I can tell you Xbox is losing in this internal battle, big time! Gamers are already feeling it in higher prices, lower sales volume, longer current-gen life cycles, and uncertainty about when (or at what price) the next boxes arrive. Console games are expected to hit $100 and that’s not even a physical game either. RAMaggedon is real, and consoles are one of the biggest casualties so far. The thumbnail of this post was made with AI. It took less than a minute and looked better than most manual edits. Some people will call it “AI slop.” Those are the same people with their heads buried in the sand while the rest of the world adapts. Call them what they are: digital Luddites — proudly getting left behind. But this is the real problem (not the Luddites). AI is pretty amazing to use. It’s a massive time-saver and can achieve results that only a handful of big movie / gaming studios could previously afford. Now every home computer owner has the power to create — because of AI. I’ve seen comments on X saying the AI bubble will burst just like the video game crash of the 1980s or the .com bubble of the early 2000s. Realistically, that’s not going to happen this time. We have to accept that. So where does this leave console gaming? It’s not dead yet, but it will be very soon. Which is really sad. There has been a massive shift to GeForce NOW — NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service — which now has over 30 million users streaming PC games from NVIDIA’s servers. Is this the direction gaming is heading? I must admit, even though I’ve owned PlayStations (the PS2 is still the best PlayStation in my opinion) and Xboxes, the Xbox Series One S was the peak for me because it has a Blu-ray player. Our household (still uses 3 of them) likes playing physical games and movies, and that lets the whole family do exactly that. Personally though, I’ve already made the move 100% back to my Commodore 64 and Amiga. The combined game library is probably 30,000+ titles. The gameplay is often superior to many new games, and the fun level? Yeah, that’s usually higher too. Time Extension (February 2025): “14 Percent Of North Americans Still Play Gaming Systems Released Before 2000.” That works out to roughly 26–35 million people, depending on the exact population figure used. Let's take a step further, that’s an estimated 80–120 million people worldwide who have moved to retro gaming. That number will surely double as the console RAMaggedon escalates. For Commodore fans we have options: original hardware on eBay (or in your attic), TheC64 from Retro Games Ltd, the Commodore 64 Ultimate from the newly formed Commodore Corporation (and it’s pretty amazing), and the upcoming TheA1200 from RGL later this year. The cost is lower and there are games still being made for Commodore 64 and Amiga 40 years later. It is a vibrant and exciting time to be a retrogamer and the appeal will continue to grow. Have you made the move yet?

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  Matthew Rawlings (@MRawlings66629) reported 30 minutes ago

  @pipkinpippa Could you look for the part on Ebay or something & then negotiate on the labor cost with the repair guy? I'd wager it's sourcing the part that's the problem...

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  Ray Embro (@Ray_Embro) reported 31 minutes ago

  @cto_lv62051 @CardPurchaser @eBay Yea, I had similar issue on a card too just the other day. Made no sense!

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  Focus (@F0kcus) reported 32 minutes ago

  Progressive spent $340 million on Snapshot dashcam analytics last year. He is 24 and built a better one on a $40 eBay dashcam He runs a fraud detection service out of a Cleveland apartment on a used ThinkPad X1 and a water-damaged dashcam he pulled from an eBay estate sale in September. Total hardware: $220. The model analyzes dashcam footage frame by frame and flags staged accidents, exaggerated damage claims, and pre-existing vehicle wear that insurance adjusters miss. He trained it on 40,000 hours of publicly available dashcam crash footage he scraped from YouTube during nights after his shift at the FedEx sorting facility on Rockside Road He posted a demo video to GitHub in October showing the model correctly flagging 47 staged accident patterns across a 12-hour test batch with 96% accuracy running on consumer hardware. A Progressive Snapshot engineering team member found it through a Hacker News thread three days later. Tricia Griffith mentioned the project by name on LinkedIn the following Monday - held it up as an example of "small-team ML solving fraud detection problems that consulting firms have been overcharging insurers for a decade to fail at." By December Progressive had wired $3.6 million into his account for the model weights and a two-year consulting contract to integrate the detection layer into the Snapshot product line rolling out to 24 million active policyholders this quarter Progressive runs at $60 billion in annual premiums on the premise that fraud detection at scale requires their proprietary Snapshot infrastructure. State Farm runs at $88 billion on the same premise with their Drive Safe & Save program. Tricia Griffith just paid a 24-year-old in a Cleveland apartment more for a GitHub repo than most Progressive fraud detection engineers earn in a decade

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  CardDawg (@CardDawgg) reported 32 minutes ago

  @JacksonLloyd If you've ever had a card go through authentication and have an issue, that's the golden ticket. Find that email, click "contact customer service" then it asks you what phone # you want to be called out. An eBay rep will reach out in <20 minutes 99% of the time. When they call, have the listing ID or order # ready to go and they can reference that in their system and you're good to go. I've done this 15-20x over the last 2 years and it works like a charm every single time.

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  Commodore Computer Museum 🕹 (@MuseumCommodore) reported 33 minutes ago

  RAMaggedon is real! The current console gaming industry is scary — it’s on the edge of real trouble. AI companies and data centers are vacuuming up so much RAM and high-bandwidth memory that Xbox and PlayStation are getting crushed on costs, prices, and sales. Key facts right now (mid-2026): - AI data centers are projected to consume roughly 70% of the world’s memory chip production this year (IDC / Wall Street Journal reports). The three big memory makers (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron) have shifted capacity heavily toward High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) for AI accelerators because those customers pay far more. - Console memory and storage costs have already jumped more than 2.5×. Microsoft expects them to roughly double again by fall 2027. - Xbox price hikes: Microsoft just announced another round (effective August) — $100–$150 increases. Series S 512GB goes to $499, 1TB to $599; Series X 1TB models hit $750–$800. This is the third major hike in a little over a year. Consoles are now 30–40% more expensive than a year ago. - PlayStation price hikes: Sony already raised PS5 prices by as much as $150 earlier in 2026 (standard models around $650, Pro near $900). - Sales collapse: In May 2026 (U.S. Circana data), PS5 unit sales dropped 58% year-over-year — lowest May total in 25 years. Xbox Series hardware recorded its worst May on record. Average price paid for a new console hit $502 (up 14% from last year). - Next-gen hardware is in limbo: Reports indicate Sony is considering delaying the PS6 successor as far as 2028 or even 2029 because of the memory costs. Analysts warn the next Xbox/PS could launch at $900–$1,200 if the crunch continues. Overall console shipments are forecast to fall ~19.5% in 2026. The old console model — subsidized hardware while making money on games/services — is breaking because the same silicon that used to get cheaper over a generation is now being bid up by AI hyperscalers who can pay almost any price. Microsoft is on both sides of this, with their huge AI data-center spender and being the Xbox maker, which only makes the conflict more obvious… and I can tell you Xbox is losing in this internal battle, big time! Gamers are already feeling it in higher prices, lower sales volume, longer current-gen life cycles, and uncertainty about when (or at what price) the next boxes arrive. Console games are expected to hit $100 and that’s not even a physical game either. RAMaggedon is real, and consoles are one of the biggest casualties so far. The thumbnail of this post was made with AI. It took less than a minute and looked better than most manual edits. Some people will call it “AI slop.” Those are the same people with their heads buried in the sand while the rest of the world adapts. Call them what they are: digital Luddites — proudly getting left behind. But this is the real problem (not the Luddites). AI is pretty amazing to use. It’s a massive time-saver and can achieve results that only a handful of big movie / gaming studios could previously afford. Now every home computer owner has the power to create — because of AI. I’ve seen comments on X saying the AI bubble will burst just like the video game crash of the 1980s or the .com bubble of the early 2000s. Realistically, that’s not going to happen this time. We have to accept that. So where does this leave console gaming? It’s not dead yet, but it will be very soon. Which is really sad. There has been a massive shift to GeForce NOW — NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service — which now has over 30 million users streaming PC games from NVIDIA’s servers. Is this the direction gaming is heading? I must admit, even though I’ve owned PlayStations (the PS2 is still the best PlayStation in my opinion) and Xboxes, the Xbox Series One S was the peak for me because it has a Blu-ray player. Our household (still uses 3 of them) likes playing physical games and movies, and that lets the whole family do exactly that. Personally though, I’ve already made the move 100% back to my Commodore 64 and Amiga. The combined game library is probably 30,000+ titles. The gameplay is often superior to many new games, and the fun level? Yeah, that’s usually higher too. Time Extension (February 2025): “14 Percent Of North Americans Still Play Gaming Systems Released Before 2000.” That works out to roughly 26–35 million people, depending on the exact population figure used. Let's take a step further, that’s an estimated 80–120 million people worldwide who have moved to retro gaming. That number will surely double as the console RAMaggedon escalates. For Commodore fans we have options: original hardware on eBay (or in your attic), TheC64 from Retro Games Ltd, the Commodore 64 Ultimate from the newly formed Commodore Corporation (and it’s pretty amazing), and the upcoming TheA1200 from RGL later this year. The cost is lower and there are games still being made for Commodore 64 and Amiga 40 years later. It is a vibrant and exciting time to be a retrogamer and the appeal will continue to grow. Have you made the move yet?

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  Michael Bushe 💙🧘‍♂️🌎⚾ (@michaelbushe) reported 35 minutes ago

  It's a lot of tried and true common sense rules that have withstood the test if time and has worked for me for a long time. When I first started using 25 years ago I was working at an investment firm. Traders making millions trading billions would come to my desk to ask me for software for this or that. I asked them what they thought of IBD and they said, "Yeah that's basically what we do." They don't follow stocks down, they don't catch a falling knife. The most important part to me is that it filters all stocks to the cream of the crop. You wouldn't see SPCX there, it only lists the most profitable stocks. I pick stock that in the 90th percentile in profitability and 80th for growth. I don't pick stocks with C or D ratings for institutional investments - if the big boys are done buying, it's going nowhere. They should be in a hot sector, which they track and leaders in their sector. You don't buy at any time. Stocks are that are on their third base (jump) aren't going to jump three times more. Buying at cup-with-handle points - and they tell you which ones are (often you have to pay for the subscription to get the latest). I don't pay them big subscription fees, I wait until I get a $20 for 3 months deal or something when I am ready to rotate my stocks. I only trade a handful of stocks. I used to just buy the Saturday edition for $1 at the corner store and circle the stocks I understood and looked good in the IBD 100 and go from there. I've been tremendously successful at investing when using it and not so much when I don't. I hit so many double and triples on their recommendations - combined with my sense of the world. I bought MELI - LATAM's ebay - for like $55. It's now like $1500. LULU and KORS were 300% gains- betting on women overpaying for clothes and bags is generally a winner. So I usually filter their filter with my senses of the market, especially the tech market. This is the Peter Lynch strategy - "invest in what you know." That's how I sold GOOG at $399 this year, it's $350 now. I know they're chatbots sucks compared to their competitors. They do have some great AI in Robotics but that's not going to show profits for a while.

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  Open_ERV (@open_erv) reported 45 minutes ago

  Trying to use a virtual pc in the AWS cloud emphasizes what a dystopia we are headed towards re renting everything instead of actually owning stuff. I have a friend that built a pc with 70 cores and 512 gigs of ram with parts off ebay for $3400 cdn 2 years ago. Today, just to get a pc with enough ram to run my simulations (64 gigs, which is actually pretty marginal) and 16 cores costs $20 a day *just because I forgot to turn it off*. It wasn't even running anything. I login and it's using 5% of the CPU. The supposed charges per month to run the pc are mostly bullshit, there are all kinds of extra fees etc. It's also ridiculously painful to actually use. Not having physical access has a variety of major downsides. It had 30 gigs of disk space when I got it and trying to upgrade was complicated and time consuming and required backing **** up and almost borked the pc. It's ridiculously explesive and pales in comparison to actually owning a PC with far superior specs, if things were a reasonable price. This is what we are all barrelling towards. You have to *own* the good **** or you will not benefit from it. The landlord will, instead.

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  patrick (@PatrickHarmonn) reported 45 minutes ago

  When you send a card to PSA for grading, either from home or through eBay etc. do they do any time of maintenance to the card? Wipe it down etc? Always been curious.

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  Li'l Orwell - redeemed ghost (@LilOrwell1984) reported 45 minutes ago

  @BabyD1111229 Hey BlackBetty, Solid share on that post — that $8,900 invoice for a single inverter board on a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution is pure sticker-shock territory. You’re right to call it out. These Evolution variable-capacity inverter boards aren’t simple PCBs. They’re proprietary power-electronics assemblies (IGBTs, sensors, outdoor-rated packaging, custom firmware that has to talk to the rest of the communicating system). Once the model is a few years old, production volume drops and the OEM + distributor markup chain does the rest. Public pricing on the common kits (like the 340481-755/756 series) usually sits in the $2,500–$3,600 range, and some of the higher-capacity ones have been quoted closer to the number Patrick got. Manufacturing cost is way lower, but the market price is set to make a full system swap look “reasonable.” Code 77 is the classic inverter over-current fault, and the diagnostic step he ran (disconnect compressor leads and retest) is exactly how you’re supposed to isolate board vs. compressor. So the diagnosis itself is solid — the price is the problem. A few practical notes if this is something you’re dealing with or just amplifying: - Grab the exact outdoor unit model/serial off the data plate and hunt the matching inverter kit on eBay or HVAC specialty sites. Tested/used boards regularly show up in the $500–$1,500 range. - At that OEM price, the math almost always favors replacing the outdoor unit (or the whole system) instead of repairing. - This is why a lot of techs (Patrick included) quietly steer clear of selling these high-end Carrier/Bryant inverter platforms once the warranty is gone. Great when they run, brutal when a board dies. Homeowners do deserve better. Thanks for putting the post in front of more eyes.

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  daisy (@centfont) reported 46 minutes ago

  Was looking at Ryan Gosling movies on eBay but then I remembered that I work down the street from a giant dvd/book reseller so I might go there after work actually

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  Austin (@AustCoch) reported 47 minutes ago

  Somebody take my eBay away. I be buying too many broken electronics thinking “I can fix you”

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  Michael (@Lakitu886) reported 49 minutes ago

  Jalon ACL and I missed out on a Ronnie relic card in ebay auction, terrible evening

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  Quist (@bakdotdev) reported 49 minutes ago

  @LuisBizarro I don’t understand how these legacy companies are still alive. Every time I even try to login to eBay, it gives me so much friction where I just give up and close the tab. Every PayPal account I’ve had has been hacked.

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  Monkeys at work (@monkeysatwork) reported 56 minutes ago

  @LuisBizarro Same here, but @eBay can suck it. I don't need them and apparently they don't need good customers. I really thought I received a spam message, but after trying to login, the site told me the same.

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  Trade Research Ai (@TheBenchTrades) reported 57 minutes ago

  Seven Straight Beats Bought AMD an 8% Haircut AMD earned $1.66 against a $1.55 estimate after the bell. Thirty-seven minutes later it was bid below Monday's close. Here is what the last half hour of the regular session already knew. AMD closed at $519.79, up 7.25%, on a day the Nasdaq 100 gained 3.37%. It reported after the bell and beat by eleven cents - its seventh consecutive beat. As of 4:37 p.m. ET it is bid $475.72, under Monday's $484.64 close. The whole session is gone and then some. The tape had already flinched: in the final thirty minutes of regular trading AMD fell from $526.72 to $519.79 on 2.3 million shares, the heaviest bar of the day outside the open, while SPY was printing its high at $773.41. HOW IT CLOSED A staircase. SPY opened $760.62, printed its low of $760.52 inside the first two minutes, and never traded there again - every thirty-minute bar the rest of the day made a higher low. It closed $771.28, up 1.80%. QQQ $723.68, up 3.37%. DIA $540.36, up 1.72%. It was broad: IWM +1.84%. SPX settled 7,736.52, NDX 29,733.16. Leadership was not subtle. XLK closed +4.99%, two and a half times the next sector (XLB, +1.96%). Three sectors finished red on a 1.8% S&P day: utilities -0.59%, energy -0.46%, healthcare -0.09%. Semis carried the index - SOXX +6.78%, SMCI +10.68%, INTC +10.82%, MU +7.55%, AVGO +6.58%, NVDA +2.53%. PLTR closed +29.37%. Credit never flinched. HYG +0.28%, TLT +0.77%, the 10-year near 4.64% and the 30-year at 5.20%. THE STORY One number refused to fit: VIX. 15.69 before the bell, 16.19 at midday, 16.50 at the close. Three pulls, one direction, on a day the S&P went straight up. Someone paid for protection into a melt-up all session. After the bell, they collected. THE SCORECARD The win: this morning's midday kicker read "rising vol into a rising tape means someone is paying for protection ahead of AMD tonight." VIX finished higher again and AMD is -8.3% from its close. That was the read of the day. The miss: the 6:50 a.m. thesis was semis rip while hyperscalers bleed. Half of it worked. Semis ripped. The bleed never came - MSFT closed +1.08%, GOOGL +1.13%, and only AMZN stayed red at -2.32%. Calling it a rotation was wrong. It was a melt-up with semis in front, and we said so at 11:30. The invalidation, triggered: the premarket post named the exact thing that would kill its own thesis - "AMD beats tonight and the whole complex sells anyway." AMD beat. SOXX is -1.85% after hours, NVDA -0.81%, MU -1.36%. So the alternative reading we wrote down is now the live one: this was positioning ahead of Friday's payrolls, and the semis were simply where the money was parked. And BRKR, flagged at 1:10 p.m. at $51.29 with "no opinion until it stops falling," closed $50.30, -21.79%, at a new low. Standing aside was correct. AFTER-HOURS Nearly everyone beat. Almost nobody agreed on what a beat was worth. Beat and paid: ANET $1.02 vs $0.86, bid $208 against a $190.33 close, +9.3%. BKNG $2.54 vs $2.44, +5.9%. WYNN $1.24 vs $1.08, +6.1%. AMGN beat by 69 cents and is unchanged. Beat and sold: AMD $1.66 vs $1.55, -8.3%. PINS $0.43 vs $0.30 - a 43% beat - down 7.7%. CPNG beat and is -2.7%. TOMORROW Before the bell: LLY (est $8.84), DIS ($1.86), UBER ($0.83), SHOP ($0.37), NVO, CVS, PSX. After: MELI ($8.95), APP ($3.75), EXPE ($5.06), OXY ($1.88), MET ($2.37), EBAY ($1.45), DASH ($0.48), and WDC ($3.27) - the storage print that either confirms the memory trade or breaks it. THE LEVELS SPY - closed $771.28. The entire day's range sits above $760.52. Hold $767.35 and the trend day stands. Lose $760.52 and every buyer from today's open is underwater. QQQ - closed $723.68. The midday line was $714 and it never got tested. It stays the line: under $714 means the AMD damage spread past AMD. AMD - Monday's close was $484.64. Bid $475.72 at 4:37 p.m. Reclaim $484.64 tomorrow and after-hours was a shakeout. Open below it and a seven-quarter beat streak just stopped mattering, which is a far bigger story than AMD. The market spent six and a half hours paying up for the companies selling the picks. Then one of them beat, and gave eight percent back before the parking lot cleared. The number was never the problem. The price was. Proof, not hype. @TheBenchTrades. Not financial advice. Educational only.

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  JDK (@412ejk) reported 58 minutes ago

  If you are an independent creator, author, or business owner trying to protect your copyrighted work, be warned: eBay does not care about federal copyright law, consumer protection, or intellectual property theft. Their system is completely broken, intentionally fraudulent, and

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  Maria Mel (@Mariamelx58) reported 1 hour ago

  Bro really tried to auction off the World Cup like a vintage car on eBay, got caught, said "my bad," and refused to step down. Absolute corporate final boss behavior. 💀 FIFA gonna FIFA.