u/Fast-Incident7523

I'm heading to Guangzhou end of April for the Canton Fair. Honestly, my schedule is going to be pretty packed. I'll be sourcing suppliers during the day, and then at night I'm staying in touch with overseas clients.

I've heard the WiFi at the venue is spotty. And even if it works, I still can't use WhatsApp or Gmail without a VPN. That's a real pain.
Some even let me share my connection to my laptop. But I've got no clue how well that works when the place is packed with people.

Anyone used this kind of roaming eSIM in China? I really can't afford to go offline during meetings. That would be a disaster for my business trip.

As a small business owner relying on Alibaba and Shopify, I was losing my mind. Dealing with junk inquiries from people who don't even read the specs was killing 3, 4 hours of my day. I recently set up acciowork as my digital grunt, and the good part for me was its MCP protocol support. I managed to plug in my own CRM and inventory tools directly. Here’s my setup:

1.It logs into the backend and reads new inquiries automatically.

2.If the MOQ doesn't match, it flags it as low priority.

3.For VIP leads, it drafts a reply based on my historical email style for my final check. I think the best part is the model switching. I use GPT-4o for complex negotiations and Qwen for simple classification, which keeps my token costs super low. It hasn't made me a millionaire yet, but it gave me my life back.

Any other cool Agents you guys are using lately?

So I've been going back and forth on mini PCs for a while now and finally ready to pull the trigger. The plan is running plex as the main thing, might dabble in jellyfin too, and eventually want to spin up some docker containers. 

Budget's around $600, willing to stretch a bit if it's actually worth it, narrowed it down to a few options:

-Acemagic K1 ryzen 7 7735hs 24GB 1TB - $599

-Minisforum UM690L ryzen 9 6900hx 32GB 1TB - $615

-Beelink Ser5 Max ryzen 7 7735hs  24GB  500GB - $619

mostly care about build quality and thermals. i've had cheap mini pcs before that would hit 90°C just browsing lol. also prefer something that doesn't sound like a jet engine at idle.

The acemagic and beelink have the same cpu but acemagic has double the storage for $20 less. minisforum is only $16 more than the acemagic but has 8GB extra ram and better cpu, though i've seen some QC complaints about minisforum. apparently reliability can be hit or miss long term which worries me a bit for a 24/7 setup. what would you go with?