Call to action: "Stop using the Anker PowerCore 10000 (model A1263) power banks immediately and contact the company for a free replacement".
> The recall covers about 1,158,000 units that were sold online through Amazon, Newegg, and eBay between June 2016 and December 2022. The affected batteries can be identified by the Anker logo engraved on the side with the model number A1263 printed on the bottom edge. However, Anker is only recalling units sold in the US with qualifying serial numbers. To check if yours is included, you’ll need to visit Anker’s website:
>However, Anker is only recalling units sold in the US
So the customers outside the US can go F themselves and burn in a fire? Or have they sold those faulty units only in the US. Because I doubt there's any difference between the US and EU powerbanks SKUs.
>Because I doubt there's any difference betreuen a US and EU powerbank.
Based on what? I can absolutely see them having different suppliers. But even if they have the same supplier, it could be the case that only the lots destined for US had the defect.
EU IDK but for Canada I am 99% certain it is the exact same units. I am guessing that it's mostly that the US is litigious so they want to avoid getting sued. I will probably get rid of my mine out of precaution.
Why would EU and US SKU manufacturing take place in different fabs? What's different about them. If you look the units share the same regulatory marks for all regions.
Customers buying a product, being told it that might burn your house down and then being told you're not eligible for recall because you don't live in a very specific part of the world is not worth getting worked up about?
> Customers buying a product, being told it that might burn your house down and then being told you're not eligible for recall because you don't live in a very specific part of the world is not worth getting worked up about?
Yes, correct. Let's look at the facts.
- Anker states this is a US model.
- They sold about 1.2 million units of this model.
- Of those units, a reported 19 units have caught fire.
- If my math is correct, that equates to 0.00001% of the units sold.
- This is a USB battery, not a pacemaker. If you have grave concerns, stop using it until Anker swaps it out.
- It cost me $25 over 6 years ago.
That said, I have one of the affected units and called the Anker number in the recall notice. While I was on call with Anker, I asked them if people outside the US could swap them and their answer boiled down to "Probably, but you may need to pay extra for shipping."
Do you have one of these units? Did you contact Anker and were told "no"?
> Because even as this poem is about what it’s like to be a turtle, it’s also about what it’s like for a turtle to be a metaphor. And — you could say therefore — about how looking at (or as) a turtle illuminates what it’s like to be a person, a woman, a poet.
I think maybe the reason is more arbitrary, as here look at this 90s author's symbolism, it's not just the old classics that are readable in-depth; contemporary style etc
This works a lot better than the archive link—they have the same text, but the archive link loses all of the JS, and so the page doesn’t make a lot of sense. Here you see it interactive, and—it’s a fun way to read a poem :-)
The other day I was at an oil change place and the guy in front of me was waiting in front of the bay. After his oil was changed, an employee brought him his keys and he went and got into the car in the bay and drove it around, then went into the office and paid.
After he pulled around I guessed it was because his car was a manual and none of the kids changing oil had the ability to drive it. Confirmed it with him when he came out to leave.
I was sad. :-(
On a positive note, I recently read about a carjacker being foiled by a manual transmission, so there's that.
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