#Micro Center

[never-obsolete]

microcenter.com - February 2005

[celticcatgirl2]

Watched these nerds build a computer today :3c

[autismonfire]

The Hunt for the 5090

Friday, I went with a video editor team member to Micro Center in Charlotte in hopes of finding the 5090 GPU. Watch our latest video at the link below to see the results of the trip.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Wpc7weLlBAg?si=iDi4qP8K16DqZLi-

[wingsau]

Update: went to a micro center today, it was full of people panic buying the upgrades they hope will get them through the next 4-5 years, I heard so many people mention the tariffs it was unreal.

[someexistite]

so i was at best buy recycling a laptop and a phone and

1. i think i know the person who was checking us out (because you recycle electronics at the checkout)

2. they initially said there was a $30 fee for recycling laptops

2-A. i didnt see anything online about that

2-B. they looked at the laptop and then said "you're good"

3. ???

3-A. are they taking the laptop for themselves?

3-B. did they realize there isn't actually a $30 fee? (not saying there isnt)

3-C. did they recognize me?

3-D. were there bees nearby?

4. the laptop in question was an msi gaming laptop

4-A. micro center said the motherboard was dead

4-A-A. i cannot back that claim up

4-B. i removed the ssd

4-C. i removed the ram

4-D. do they know that?

5. the person in question may be DC Trip related (for those in the know aka literally only me)

[thedaveandkimmershow]

Okay so yesterday was an adventure.

Up at 7 like on a school day, boiling water for coffee and tea, our first appointment of the day was gonna be catch the 9:21 for Union Station and LAX.

I'd spent part of the previous afternoon  looking up how we were gonna do this. Turns out the only thing I really needed to do was use Google maps with origin, destination, travel date, and arrival time and BAM. Sunday, 9:21, Track 1. So now, the following morning, all that was left was to buy our tickets with the Metrolink app and actually, you know, get on the train.

Kimmer, in the meantime, indulges more studying until it's time to shower, get dressed, and catch a ride from her nephew who drops us at Irvine Station where we find ourselves along Track 1 ten minutes early, waiting for our train to arrive.

The train, I think, pulled in a coupla minutes early and was actually on its way north again at 9:21. Good timing, that. Plus, when we boarded the train, we immediately went to the upper deck where we scored a booth with a table and a pair of outlets underneath. Yes!

It's a lovely ride that takes about an hour during which we both indulge a little studying/research/reading as the scenery slips by. The only slightly annoying thing about the ride was this professor sitting across the aisle a few seats back who was talking on his phone the whole time and, because of the interior material and curvature of the ceiling, he seemed to be speaking right next to us so that we could clearly hear every word of his conversation.

How did we know he was a professor?

We didn't. He was just this old guy traveling on his own and talking about travel and family and taxes and enough about his youngest son's upcoming marriage that we know his son's in his late thirties/early forties, that this isn't to be a religious service but a civil service, and that the "professor" and his wife would be attending.

That's definitely sweet...

But more than we'd prefer to know.

Still, we got our research/studying/reading done and we even managed to roll into Union Station fifteen minutes early, about 10:25, which was perfect because Kimmer wanted to score authentic tacos at Olvera Street so that gave us an hour and a half to do that before we had to be back at the bus terminal to continue our travel to LAX.

We stopped at customer service first, though, to verify there was nothing that would screw this plan and, after confirming it was solid plan, we ventured toward the front of Union Station, scoring a Wetzel's Pretzels pretzel in remembrance of her aunt Jacquie who loved them dearly. So we split one and made our way, eventually, out the front of Union Station, managing to capture pictures of this iconic landmark as we went. 😊

Our objective, though, is Olvera Street for tacos. Fortunately for the time we have, Olvera is right across the street.

After lunch, exploring, and purchasing some housewarming gifts for our daughter and her boyfriend, we walk back to the top of the street, turn left down a short hill, and then back across the street to Union Station where the Starbucks that was packed on our way out is conveniently empty now that we're on our way back in.

After scoring our drinks, we reach our bus stop (across all those tracks behind Union Station) with ten minutes to spare.

Rolling away from the station a little after noon, the bus makes its way across Los Angeles with us (on our way to Escape Campervans) and everyone else (on their way bearing luggage to the airport) arriving at terminal 1 of LAX about thirty minutes later.

We walk around inside the terminal for fifteen minutes thinking there might be something interesting to do in there to kill some time but it turns out all the good stuff happens after the TSA checkpoints... so we head out of the terminal to the transportation hub next door where we catch an Uber with a young guy named Hector who tells us a story about a fifty-something year old man who complained that Hector had charged his car long enough so was trying to disconnect it from the charger. Hector wasn't traumatized by this, it turns out, because, you know, old crazy dudes. 😆

We talk a little camping after that and, before you know it, he's dropping us off in the Escape Campervan lot a half hour before our scheduled pick-up. Fortunately for us, this wasn't a problem and we drove off the lot at 1:30, the actual time of our scheduled appointment.

Now, there's some stuff we had in mind to do and first up is Micro Center in Tustin where we roll in a little over an hour later and, with the expert help of two customer service reps, Kimmer scores a new set of over ear ear buds as well as a brick that, once fully charged, will charge her laptop while we're camping.

Three-thirty we're having lunch at my favorite Taco Mesa (that I didn't even realize was a Taco Mesa) four miles away.

Back on the road a little passed four, we're back at the homestead a half hour later to check in on proposed meal plans and shopping lists for our upcoming camping adventure. Five-fortyfive we hit the local Goodwill where I get a pillow 'cause we were packed too tight to bring mine. Half hour later we're across the street at Sprouts for serious grocery shopping. Back at the homestead at 715 for dinner and Episode 7 of The Residence.

A little after 830 Kimmer's gotta retire from these events to take in a lecture and then take a test. While she's upstairs partaking of these doctoral pursuits, I'm downstairs filling in her nephew about my AI tests in post-production. He asks if this stuff is posted anywhere for him to see and, next thing we know, I'm at his desktop showing him each of the AI generated videos I made using tools from RunwayML, explaining how and why each shot was crafted the way it was.

His response?

"To be honest, I didn't know AI was this far along."

By 'n by he heads upstairs to chat up Kimmer for a bit and, by the time they're done, and by the time Kimmer's done and, by the time her cousin's back with ice cream, it's eleven-thirty as she, her nephew, and I settle onto the couch with our bowls of ice cream topped with chocolate sauce to watch the season 1 finale of The Residence.

Unfortunately for us, especially Kimmer 'n I who've been embracing this whodunnit over the last week, this epiode's gonna run an hour and a half... and we all start struggling with being, you know, awake about an hour into the show.

Not good.

Certainly not a helpful state of consciousness in which to take in and appreciate a finale of such import.

So we call it a night. Admit defeat coming up on quarter to one A.M..

And go.

To.

Bed.

☺️

[b3aches]

For less than $100, even.

Legitimately mind boggling.

I can’t believe 1TB microsd cards are like a thing that exists, thats like crossing a line, thats alarmingly close to playing god, where the FUCK are they PUTTING it

[jobkash]

PAYROLL SPECIALIST

MICRO CENTER is the nation’s leading computer and electronic device big box retailer! Our technology superstore has an industry-leading 40,000+ selection of premier computer products and the most knowledgeable staff in the business. We are passionate about customer service and developing long-term customer relationships. We are looking for associates with those same values.Our corporate Finance…

[chaddavisphotography]

Micro Center in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

[whydoeseverythinghurt]

Just bought a laptop from them and was thinking about it while reading this post.

Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?

They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.

Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?

So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.

And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn't compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn't sell.

And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at... putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.

If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn't have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that's what they did.

I don't know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.

[bonguri]

20250312 delafarm 2 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: 色薄めの紅梅。 Photo taken at Nagoya Agricultural Center, Tenpaku ward, Nagoya city, Aichi pref.

[pc-98s]

i love 3d printing! would love to do it someday.

[manyblinkinglights]

Will the Micro Center coming to Santa Clara, CA be open before Furality or not.

[trashworldblog]

me after getting home after all of the things went wrong: DEATH DEATH FIRE DEATH HATE RAGE ANGER RAAAAAAAAAAA

me in about 10 to 20 minutes: hehe :) everything is wonderful :)

[uselessmicrowave]

not anonymous but you are so so cool and you inspire me so so much (i was reading your fics even before i made this blog….)

i love our little banters and simp posts for Sentinel, they truly make my day 🫶🏼

thank you?! i had no idea you were reading my fics before you started writing, that means so much to me. 🫶 also knowing that you’re inspired by my little fics is so rewarding to hear.