What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?

Im curious as I usually use the site very occasionally to get certain electronic parts or order from PCBway like I just picked up some cheap but infinitely better than stock gps antennas for my LoRa T beams and im about to get a set of also still cheap but much better than stock 915mhz antennas but i kinda wanna throw some other projects or weird thing in the cart with it. It doesent have to be hobby electronics with soldering and all that but bonus points if it is.

EeeDawg101,

Retro handheld gaming machines! One like the Miyoo mini - www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805029072733.html?spm=…

Incredible handheld gaming device.

mesamunefire, (edited )

Onion os makes this a really good console.

simple,

Was just about to say, Aliexpress is weirdly known for having all sorts of retro or knockoff consoles. Many of them are really cool, too.

mihnt,
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    EeeDawg101,

    Thanks I was kinda shocked when I saw the link it gave me lol. I have no intention of earning referral money or anything. I wasn’t even logged into Ali express when I copied the link.

    bionicjoey,

    Firefox just released a new feature where you can copy a link without tracking stuff in the URL

    EeeDawg101,

    That’s amazing. Ill definitely start using that. I freaking love Firefox.

    Excrubulent, (edited )
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    Oh dang, that’ll save me a bit of time stripping that stuff out. It’s amazing how easy it is once you have just a little bit of understanding of how URLs work. My most common URL hack is getting youtube shorts to play with full controls. You just replace /shorts/[videoID] with watch?v=[videoID]

    I used it today to go through this video frame by frame to discover that she in fact didn’t hit her face:

    youtube.com/shorts/Pz1H1NI_22M

    youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1H1NI_22M

    On desktop you can use , and . to step through the frames.

    Cringe2793,

    Cheap disposable tools that you need for some project that you only need a couple times a year (if that).

    Nindelofocho,

    I actually have some cheap tweezers i got from there for soldering and theyve been extremely decent at what they do

    azimir,

    I scored a pair of small wire cutters for a couple of bucks years back and they keep doing a solid job. I worried at the $3 price tag, but it’s been a solid investment.

    That said, don’t buy solder on Aliexpress. It’s barely made of solder. Make sure to invest in a good iron and solder it’ll be a life changer for electronics work.

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    azimir,

    That’s a great price for some cheap zip ties.

    This is one of the various examples I use of just how amazing Aliexpress can be.

    Zorque,

    Your two links seem to be sending mixed messages.

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