Thorry84
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- Comment on We are so cooked 13 hours ago:
- Comment on Anon watches It 2 days ago:
Lime is a color
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 4 days ago:
Well you’re always limited to what the distributors have selected for a certain region.
However you can get around this sometimes with so called “grey” import. That’s when you buy something meant for one region in another region, which happens a lot in Europe because the differences don’t really matter. For example something made for Germany is perfectly fine in the countries around Germany, they all use the same plugs, same regulations, the manual is often in every language anyways (plus who reads the manuals). But it can cause trouble when you need warranty as the manufacturer doesn’t like this, so they will refuse service. The EU has gotten on the ass of manufacturers to tell them to just service the customer, but it can be a hassle sometimes. In this case the reason for the different SKU has nothing to do with anything physical to the product, but instead the market it’s meant for. In some countries people are a bit richer and thus prices are higher, but smart people know you can just buy the German product from a shop in Germany and even with a bit more shipping it can still be cheaper. So sometimes it’s worth the effort.
This is also done for certain shops (for example Saturn/MediaMarkt in Europe) who get special SKUs just for them. These are often just the exact same SKU as available for the general market, but with a different number. They do this because a lot of countries have sites to compare prices at different shops. MediaMarkt had this strategy where they would heavily discount one model and market the shit out of that. This gave the public the idea MediaMarkt always had great deals. While in fact most models they sold were much more expensive than elsewhere. But nerds figured this out and created websites to compare prices between shops. So it would be obvious when the price was good at MediaMarkt and they would all buy that one, but when the price was higher they would know and not buy it. This destroyed the MediaMarkt strategy, so they made a deal with manufacturers to create different SKUs especially for them. This made it harder for the nerds to compare prices, as they used the SKUs to differentiate between different models.
For the different SKUs available in a region there are often shops available that sell them. Some shops select a certain amount of SKUs to a have a good selection from different manufacturers and have a simple selection for the customers. However other shops just sell everything the distributors have to offer. These often employ systems to automatically enrich and publish products as soon as the distributors lists them. With drop-shipping directly from the distributors, this gets even simpler. So you can recognize these shops as they have a lot of products and often don’t have great filter and search options.
Another excellent place is for example sites like Ebay, where you can find all sorts of products from all different regions. And they even have shops on there that buy stuff the distributor meant to sell, but for some reason (for example delays in shipping) couldn’t sell. Parties just buy up the entire stock and sell it through places like Ebay.
But in some cases, the manufacturer had some very weird SKUs that they could technically made, but nobody wanted them, so they never got made. This can lead to hobbyists to having easy modification options. For example a feature could be completely available on the PCB and even in the software, but the parts not populated because that SKUs didn’t include that feature. In that case it’s easy to just populate the parts and get the feature up and running.
In case you want something like 500 - 1000 parts (depending on the manufacturer and what kind of device it is, could be at least 5000 - 10000) you can often get the manufacturer to create a SKU especially for you. When this is one of the SKUs they initially planned but hadn’t selected, the costs isn’t even that high most of the times. But they can even make completely custom products as long as you are willing to buy enough volume.
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 5 days ago:
The number advertised is not actually the name of the product, but the vendor code or manufacturer SKU.
I’ve had some experience in how these SKUs come to be for large brands. In a lot of cases the people developing the new models have like a whole list of monitors they could create. Out of these a selection is made for which they will create, which capabilities are good etc. This is done per region and even if the capabilities are exactly the same, it will get a different SKU for the different region. This is important because the labeling could be different, often different plugs and manuals are included. Sometimes different paperwork needs to be filed, so it’s important the SKU matches the region. From this list of product SKUs the manufacturer can create for a region local distributors choose which ones they think are good for their market. This can often be hard and different distributors can choose different SKUs (depending on the manufacturer). Out of this list of available SKUs in the channel the shops can select which ones they want to carry. Some shops just carry them all (especially when dropshipping), other shops carefully select which ones they like.
This leads the shops to have seemingly random SKUs and nonsense numbers. But that’s because those SKUs were figured out all the way back in step one. Those lists can be huge and all the numbers need to be unique. Normally there is some sort of internal structure used to generate the SKUs. But the end result is just a confusing mess of numbers.
When looking at for example distributor level at what they carry or what is offered, the numbers make a little more sense.
So it isn’t ideal, but there is reason to the madness.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 5 days ago:
Oh no, you misunderstand, this isn’t frozen at all. It’s like this at room temperature
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 5 days ago:
Yes the clear stuff being not plain water but somehow meat based surely makes it better
- Comment on Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) 5 days ago:
I don’t think you can share with friends? Only if you have a Family account and all the Switches are signed into the same Family.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 6 days ago:
I think the March 24 jump was directly caused by stuff Trump said about Tesla and the protesters being terrorists.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In my experience, all the Gen X people I’ve ever met were smart and kind people. It’s often the Boomers who are total assholes.
- Comment on Meep 1 week ago:
Somehow up 10% today and 20% for the past 5 days. And the price is still double it was 1 year ago. So whatever they are doing to inflate the stock is still working, even though any other company would be folding with the amount of backlash they have received and the utter crap their products and numbers are.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong updated Steam page with 2025 copyrights and cloud gaming jnfo 1 week ago:
Beep beep beep
Huh? What’s that? Oh it the COPIUM truck backing up!
- Comment on Dark Souls Remastered Seamless Co-Op Mod: Announcement 1 week ago:
I’ve been having a lot of fun with DS3 Seamless Co-op since it released recently.
It’s so much fun to play these games with multiple people. And it was surprisingly stable. We’ve had a couple of crashes, but not worse at all. The only boss that was too bugged to play was Wolnir. Luckily it bugged out so hard it beat itself.
Can’t wait to play DS with 2 players as well
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 1 week ago:
For people that don’t know about this: If you want the unofficial Portal 3 check out Portal Reloaded. It’s a crazy mod for Portal 2 with excellent puzzles, new mechanics and a really polished feel to it. It’s probably as close as we are ever going to get to a Portal 3.
- Comment on Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional 1 week ago:
Turns out if you stack the supreme court, the constitution goes out the window.
- Comment on "Saw XI" has been canceled 2 weeks ago:
Next thing you know they will stop making new Spiderman movies
- Comment on A book doesn't have to be long to be good 2 weeks ago:
He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?
- Comment on rule 2 weeks ago:
I’m not even sure this guy is using Arch…
- Comment on You have to pick one 2 weeks ago:
Both are moving just under Mach 1
- Comment on That was a hell of a bender, hope yours goes well also. 3 weeks ago:
Here I am, an old man. Waking up on Saturday feeling like shit. Thinking damn I shouldn’t have had that 3rd beer while watching a movie in bed Friday night and falling asleep at 23:00.
- Comment on Anon, the All-Knowing 3 weeks ago:
Is out of estus, still tries to drink. All knowing my ass
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Well the B580 is a budget / low-power GPU. All the discussions going around are for flagship and high-end GPUs. Intel isn’t in that space yet, but we can hope they have a B7xx lined up which makes some waves.
- Comment on The FAA Has a Big Problem with Mental Health 3 weeks ago:
So you go to the doctor to get a medical license so you can fly an airplane. The doctors asks if you have any physical issues, you say no. Then he proceeds to ask you about your sex life. And not just a single yes or no question, he goes into great detail asking question upon question.
This is seriously fucked up, a doctor could lose their license where I live asking stuff like that. Like my man you are supposed to see if someone is medically fit to fly, not if they live up to some standard of how women are supposed to behave from the 1800s.
The whole don’t seek mental healthcare ever or you’ll lose your license is also just crazy. I think Mentour Pilot made some videos about that as well.
Iirc this one featured mental health issues among pilots youtu.be/988j2-4CdgM
- Comment on Riding the Ambien walrus 4 weeks ago:
do u think that yoshi gets embarrassed when he poos out eggs in front of mario??? sorry if this ofends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha. and i would like to know if any of you have any pics of yoshi pooping an egg while he looks nervous or embarrassed i just want to see it for a few laughs haha. another thing i am wondering is what do you think the eggs smell like haha im just curious for laughs haha i would like to smell them
- Comment on Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings 4 weeks ago:
Water? Like from a toilet?
- Comment on Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings 4 weeks ago:
It’s like stopping maintenance on your house and the boldly claiming you’ve saved so much money. Yeah sure, right up till the point you go bankrupt from medical bills due to all the mold you’ve been exposed to.
If this isn’t the darkest time line, it for sure must be the dumbest.
- Comment on mass 4 weeks ago:
Fully laden or unladen?
- Comment on Heartbreaking 4 weeks ago:
I meant the TV series called “Ellen”, which is a sitcom so I think it’s intended to be funny.
- Comment on Heartbreaking 4 weeks ago:
I’m still amazing there are people that actually found Ellen funny or entertaining. I haven’t seen a whole lot of her, as she wasn’t as famous where I lived. But the TV show did air and I saw a couple of episodes people had on when I was visiting, back when linear TV was a thing. I didn’t like it and saw zero appeal, but figured I just wasn’t the target audience. The more I’ve learnt about Ellen over the years, the more I wonder what people ever found even slightly entertaining.
- Comment on Wasnt great orange leader going to end the war in 24 hours? 4 weeks ago:
“Of course, no one truly believed Trump would be able end the grinding, three-year conflict in 24 hours”
Three years? Are they on drugs, the war has been going on since 2014.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 4 weeks ago:
Round connectors were absolutely used to transfer data, for example audio and video in the form of RCA plugs and many other examples back in the day. Another example is coax cable for TV signals (both analog and digital) and also LAN.
However the lack of distinct interface channels leads to a bottleneck in bandwidth. So as the need for bandwidth increased many of those were replaced with multi pin versions. This is much harder to do with round connectors and there isn’t that much benefit, so they mostly got ditched.
However round connectors still have their place, for example tiny little coax connectors found in many devices to carry signals. Wifi antennas and such are connected this way.
