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Sep 10, 2020, 5 tweets

it sucks that you can either buy on amazon and choose between 5000 nearly identical nameless garbage products or you can buy from somewhere else and choose between 4 of the same 5000 and absolutely nothing changes

it doesn't help anything to shop elsewhere, it just makes things worse for you. the only way to buy any consumer product is to stomp through the anodized aluminum sludge until you find the one thing that is maybe different than the rest

every single vesa monitor arm on amazon supports precisely 17.6 pounds max, which is how you know that literally none of them have been tested in any way, they're just being churned out and the listing was copy-pasted from another listing that was copy-pasted from another

none of the words on product listings mean anything. amazon, newegg, home depot dot com, it doesn't matter. the data is either made up on the spot or parsed incorrectly out of product docs.

the listing says "max refresh rate 60hz"? ignore it. go check the manufacturers site, hope they have a manual. oops, it's a 144hz gsync display, but a $850 sale is meaningless to newegg or amazon so nobody bothers to get the listing right. they have millions of listings to make.

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