I've seen it a bunch, especially now around Christmas where people have bought custom artworks from seemingly legit sellers (plenty of positive reviews and relatively old accounts) and then just getting AI slop.
Yeah, I'm not gonna buy something from outside of my country (Norway), our consumer protection laws are worth so much more to me.
And most of the savings get eaten up by import fees and VAT, it'd still be cheaper but I would lose out on 10 years of guarantee that trumps any warranty.
It's been remarkably reliable actually, but yeah if I had built it myself I'd have gone for a reliable 250hp setup.
I got the car for a bargain from the guy that built it, because he had let it sit and rot, so the floor had to be replaced to pass safety, and he didn't have the time to take care of it because of getting kids and working offshore.
This is why my "shit hits the fan" vehicle is a 1982 diesel Mercedes.
That thing will run on anything as fuel. I've tried running it on old used motor oil, used hydraulic oil from my car hoist, lamp oil, and yes ofc used fryer oil.
I'm gonna be cruising in my old ass sedan laughing at the preppers in their modern trucks that can't run on anything but the most pure of fuels without clogging their injectors.
My mailbox is in the entry of my building, which is locked so only the actual mail carriers have access. They have a key to get into the building to deliver mail and parcels.
I've got a sticker that says "no unadressed mail" which they respect, so if it's something that isn't addressed to me by name, its not put in my mailbox. (some exceptions like public notices, but those are years between)
Harddrives too! I needed more drives for my NAS and looked at drives last week, noticed they're all up almost 20% in price.. So I bought a single drive 5 days ago (18tb) for ~400 eur. That same drive is 610eur right now.
I bought a 1TB Samsung 990 Pro one month ago, it has since tripled in price.
The issue is that nobody has found a way to refine it in a way that isn't extremely polluting without the cost being extremely excessive and making it entirely pointless.
We could mine as much as we want, but the only country OK with refining this stuff is China. Unless we solve the issue of refining this in a relatively clean way at a somewhat competitive price, no refining will ever be set up in Europe.
I've seen it a bunch, especially now around Christmas where people have bought custom artworks from seemingly legit sellers (plenty of positive reviews and relatively old accounts) and then just getting AI slop.