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The last Cheap Chinese Christmas?

05 Dec 2024

Only 20 days to Christmas and it's probably already too late to order cool but very cheap tech stuff from AliExpress as stocking stuffers.

Let's face it, China is a great source of a wide range of gadgetry and technology that is fun to play with and sometimes even rather useful.

Unfortunately, especially for those who live in the USA, this Christmas is probably the last one where this tech will be "cheap" enough to take a punt on.

The spectre of huge tariffs on Chinese imports is probably going to deal a huge blow to the "value" that this Sino-tat represents to the average US resident and it's likely worse than anyone yet realises.

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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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