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Why is everything so expensive?
12 June 2026I regularly trawl the pages of sites such as Ali Express looking for a bargain.
A year or two ago there were bargains everywhere. Clever and useful little circuit boards that would perform all manner of things and they cost just a few bucks, with free shipping thrown in as well.
I would regularly buy such crazy-good deals and, as a result, have a nice stash of things to play with, learn from and solve problems with.
Today however, things are quite different.
Forums are Down
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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