asciilifeform: hatever qty, they don't seem to have an oem version ) , and lastly, cabling/fasteners
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-16#1814130 << still waiting for quotes in qty 100, but this is approx correct. however a working rockchiptron consists not only of the board, but of heat sink ( 10 usd , and single-source, it gotta have the correct pegs ) , the sd card ( in principle cheapest worx, it ~never gets written to, i am looking into chinese crate ) , ssd ( imho it is pointless to use anything but samsung, and it's ~40 usd in w☝︎
asciilifeform: lobbes: typically they're harvested straight from vendor's db
asciilifeform: 'lulzcharges from $distantlocale on existing card' is considerably less painful for konsoomer in usa, however, than 'brand new card in yername in hands of $joker'
asciilifeform: sad part is that it dun actually ~require~ collecting rubbish, these days...
asciilifeform: ( at one time i dismissed this as a laborious/rare scam, until met several people who ended up in it )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they get shredded not to shove'em moar compactly into rubbish bin, but because there are 'specialists' who collect'em from rubbish, fill'em out, then swipe from postbox when 'activated' card comes in, then max it, and luser finds out when wages start vanishing
asciilifeform: nao they introduced ~metal~ cards. but these dun get sent unsoliced -- yet. when they start to, i'ma have to... idk, first burn, then slice what remains with guillotine ?
asciilifeform: i had to upgrade the crosscuttron, to eat these...
asciilifeform: the most annoying thing, sometimes the ~actual card~ is in there
asciilifeform: asciilifeform is probably on some list of egregious idjits somewhere
asciilifeform: they literally fill my postbox on occasion
asciilifeform: i shred the scamola 'preapproved!111' from these, ~daily
asciilifeform: dun forget, decade passed since mircea_popescu toured usaistan; cards with 100k limit are common nao
asciilifeform: ( and it is unknown to asciilifeform whether anyone actually buys the 100k boats/planes/etc one can find listed on lulazon. it is entirely possible that : not )
asciilifeform: it's a konsoomer/smallbiznis retail joint.
asciilifeform: 'small biznis' in usa is a funny thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can buy tanker with visa, if one insists. ( and they also issue own card, and profit thereby , good % of users have it )
asciilifeform not deep ocean fish, does not particularly relish megapressures
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 1 non-cn component ( aside from asciilifeform-crafted ironworks ) is the samsung ssd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: will likely find out soon, i wrote quote reqs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not being a complete idiot, asciilifeform found several independent suppliers of rc.
asciilifeform: lobbes: it does. doesn't do anything for wires tho. and i looked in the docs, word 'wire' is only mentioned in re third-party sellers on lulazon being able to accept them ( on own power ) as payment
asciilifeform: ( on top of mircea_popescu prolly being right that it can be made to eat wires, if coaxed )
asciilifeform: the other thing, i doubt that lulazon is sole source for anything. merely fast/convenient in asciilifeform's locale. but e.g. the rc board ~is~ available elsewhere
asciilifeform: ( tho i'ma prolly still need a hand with those, from other l1 folx with lulazon accts )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ideally can supply BingoBoingo's piggy this way, and free up asciilifeform's usd for rockchip etc physical plant construction and delivery
