Deep breaths… probably less than what you expect.
Last time they called me from customs it was to say that they needed import fees paid but the parcel company failed epicaly to contact me.
or this:
Anyway, cheering for you!
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I just recently found out what a “karen” is (through this forum^^), I have no need to personally meet one yet… sigh^^
That’s good news, so the numbing gel should be no problem 
Thanks, hope so
I often Think that Mr. H.P. met a Karen slurping noodle soup one starless night night…
If it’s the numbing gel, just say you don’t actually need it: it’s just part of the kit.
Get them to discard the gel and that’s it. ^^
Although I really doubt that would be issue enough to call someone.
i cant stop watch karen compilations on yt
This is very exciting, My Titan arrived a day earlier than the USPS estimate 
time to find an installer. Anyone here know someone in the north/central Texas region that can do the install?
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Theres a couple. Pineapple comes highly recommended. I used Ian Bell in Killeen for my next. Both are on the DT partners map.
Pineapple is closer to you, I think.
I just recently found out what a “bikey” was here too. The world is complex, weird and interesting, right?
Not that I was expecting it to be a problem but my place of employment (secure mental health hospital) has a metal detector we have to clear on the way in. I’m happy to report I carried my titan through in my hand today with no trouble. Now I’m on the hunt for someone to help me get it installed. Off to the partner map with me.
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Little update - I called DHL this morning (because they have “phone times” on their page) and talked to a nice computer voice. Guess they just turn it off after the phone time? Dunno…
Anyway, the computer just told me to pick up my Titan at the nearest “service point”. Okay. I live in a relatively big city, and the nearest service point is in a village half an hour drive away… and they couldn’t just already send it there and tell me “hey, your package is here, come over and get it”? Sigh…
But since I’m not in a hurry, all is fine
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Yep, I’m in talks with Pineapple to do my magnet now. He did my flexNExT (and will be replacing it with my flexMN) about 6 months back. Can’t recommend him enough.
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Glad to hear so!! 
Can you guys get a Group order discount? 
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Price is directly related to how sharp the scalpel still is…
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I have not been home from college yet to open my titan otherwise id test this myself but having said that:
Does anyone know (either by estimation of the numbers or by testing) if the titan is strong enough to wipe a weaker magstripe? my college still uses magnetic stripe cards for our student ids and im wondering if ill end up wiping it every other dia like my name tag magnet did…
Probably not wipe it but mag media will always be affected by external fields so repeatedly exposing the stripe to the Titan (or vice versa whatever) can impact the bit amplitude on the magnetic media to the point it’s no longer “clean”
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so probably not right away but it may screw with it over time… welp, good thing its easy to have a new one printed in like 5 minutes. it should be fine as long as its not every other day
thanks for the info!
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You would have to be literally touching the magstripe directly with your titan finger. It wouldn’t do anything from a few cm away.
Wow… What the hell school is that? Hogwarts? I don’t remember swiping a magstripe card since at least the late 90’s. The only application I can think of that still uses magnetic stripes are transport tickets: last I went to Paris, I’m pretty sure the metro tickets were magnetic things for instance. Other than that… That’s well and truly dead technology.
On the other hand, if you go to a technology college, it would be pretty ironic
For some reason all of the hotels in my area still use magstripes instead of RFID. That’s the only place I’ve seen it, though.
My college ID has magstripe as well, but it’s just a backup in case the contactless fails in our cards (weirdly common occurrence, likely due to bending).
I go to RIT, Rochester institute of technology… Yup, irony…
I bet it’s the cost of replacing all of the readers across our massive campus
Hmm yes you’re right, many hotels do have magnetic stripe key cards.
I guess it’s not so dead after all then. I was thinking mostly swiping a credit card. That is what I haven’t done since the last ice age.
Well I guess if they feel it’s secure enough, why not.
My company does high tech stuff yet still backs up things on DAT tapes, because it works and there’s no need to change. When I got hired, it was the first time in many, many years that the administrator asked me to break up big files into smaller ones whenever possible to make incremental tape backups faster. I told him the 80’s called and wanted their IT technology back, but he didn’t laugh