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Razer Huntsman Elite is at $120 instead of $200.
How Black Friday works: Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on…
So do you know any great deals for today?
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Can you give an example of one? It blows my mind that this is possible - I mean not the technology exactly, that makes sense, but just that something reasonably portable that I would carry around in case my phone dies can also have the level of utility of jumping my vehicle in a pinch. The future is pretty cool.
The battery packs for jumping cars (at least the ones I've seen) are generally more of a size appropriate for putting in a trunk than a backpack or pocket.
AMD slashed the price of the Ryzen 9 series CPUs this week. A 7950X now goes for $550, down from $700. That said I'm not sure if this is a Black Friday deal or a permanent reduction to be price-competitive with Intel Raptor Lake.
It's a trap. Notoriously, electronics bought for Black Friday are the worst batch available. You can expect higher error rates and technical issues for CPUs and GPUs bought during BF.
An Anker Power Bank (24,000mAh) has a £40 discount right now on Amazon UK. This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can keep my phone charged (which I use for tethering) for over a week, no problem. Drains way quicker when charging my M1, but that one has far less battery issues when compared to my phone. The discount is real, as well. I know because I bough…
Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones for $228 (normally $350) at pretty much every store (Sony, Amazon, Best Buy, etc). Just got them and they are great but I never had wireless headphones. They do take 10-20 seconds to connect to my iPad, but that might be because they are also set up with my phone. I considered the newer version but the reviews made it seem like it wasn't a huge upgrade and in some ways a downgrade,…
An Anker Power Bank (24,000mAh) has a £40 discount right now on Amazon UK. This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can keep my phone charged (which I use for tethering) for over a week, no problem. Drains way quicker when charging my M1, but that one has far less battery issues when compared to my phone. The discount is real, as well. I know because I bough…
is this the 140w one that you have?
I've gotten two great "deals" this week. The first: I bought "unlimited" worldwide maps from Osmand, which I use a TON for offline maps when I bike. It's $9.99 for unlimited worldwide offline map downloads right now. Great deal if you'd like to move away from Google Maps for navigation (not so great for business search, but it's slowly getting there!) The second: not actually a Black Friday deal, but I recently switc…
I wish we had better words to describe encryption and the specific tradeoffs of each approach. I did not know purelymail, but knowing IMAP I had a gut feeling that things were a bit more complicated than a blanket "fully encrypted on their servers".
Sure enough, reading between the lines of their documentation they can pretty much decrypt any email on an account by just using the password given by the client when connecting to their IMAP server. Since most clients either connect regularly to fetch emails or maintain a long-lived connection to the server, they can pretty much decrypt anything, any time. So it's back to trusting them just like it emails were stored in plain text.
I don't want to pick on this small player, I applaud their effort in pushing email forward, but I have enough with companies using encryption to handwave security concerns. A big example of that is Apple iCloud.
Some apps I really like are on sale. Here are some suggestions: Web Development: - ProxyMan - https://proxyman.io/ — web debugging proxy (30% off the first year) - Tower - https://www.git-tower.com/ — powerful Git Client (50% off the first year) - DevUtils - https://devutils.com/ — set of small developer tools (50% off) For overall productivity: - BetterTouchTool - https://folivora.ai/ — customize input devices (50%…
Would like to add a few other Mac apps that I like:
DEVONthink — https://devontechnologies.com — is a fantastic Mac app for organizing documents. It's a desktop Evernote replacement for me. (25% off)
Cashculator - https://cashculator.app - Personal finance with a focus on planning and "what-if" scenarios. Like a spreadsheet. (50%, no subscription).
rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed.
> rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed. Where? I found it listed on the rOtring site ( https://www.rotring.com/pens-pencils/pencils/rotring-800/SAP... ), but they don't clearly give any option to buy that I can see.