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Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by lelandfe »

haunter wrote: post #33
k099 wrote: post #29

Someone compiled a big list of deals on apps, SaaS software, utilities, books, courses, etc and seems to be taking PRs: https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Mond...

$80 software 50% off to take screenshots and that's a deal? Mac app economy is truly crazy. Just mind blowing to me when we have FOSS software like ShareX which pretty much does the same and more https://getsharex.com/

TBF that is 3 licenses – for one license it is $35. Also quite a lot IMO: it's really just a screenshot cropping and editing tool, since macOS has a screenshot tool already.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by lopkeny12ko »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #58
lopkeny12ko wrote: post #28

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.

This sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. Do you have a source?

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by thinkloop »

nagyf wrote: post #62
thinkloop wrote: post #59

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…

Thanks. So do you know any great deals for today?

:D That question is not really answerable, it only depends on what mid-cycle products you're interested in and how much oldness you are willing to tolerate.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by utopcell »

nagyf wrote: post #62
thinkloop wrote: post #59

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…

Thanks. So do you know any great deals for today?

:-)

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by dont__panic »

nicolaslem wrote: post #68
dont__panic wrote: post #32

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…

> And it's fully encrypted on their servers. 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 us…

Well said. In their docs they actually call out this exact issue, and mention that they'd like to improve it in the future, but it would require significant work and that's not necessarily worth it for them.

It would be nice to see a lot of competing small-fry players innovating in the email space. In an ideal world, I could just shop around between mail providers with my domain and pick whichever option provides the best price:features ratio for my needs. I was pretty keen on Proton for a while but they're diving deep in the VPN space, and their approach to encryption makes it nearly impossible to use them with simple mail apps like K9 and Apple Mail.

Much like the browser space, it's not healthy for Google to run a near-monopoly of email. We need a healthy number of alternatives out there so they can't push consumer unfriendly standards and creep more and more advertising into their email product.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by chabad360 »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #72
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. Do you have a source?

Not so conspiratorial, I don't know about AMD but companies like Samsung do sell modified SKUs (I believe mainly TVs) with generally worse processor power than their not BF counterparts. A quick Google (or HN even) search should bring up a few articles about this behavior.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by nicolaslem »

anemoiac wrote: post #25
cholantesh wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the use case for a device like this? E: Thanks for all the replies. I have a XPS 15 that was, maybe 5 years ago occasionally reliable for playing Doom 2014 at 1080p for half an hour before the gpu would shut itself down, maybe I could have benefited from one of these + a desktop GPU...

Anything that might benefit from using a desktop GPU, but doesn't justify buying a desktop machine.

With the caveat that desktop GPUs are most of the times connected via 16 PCIe lanes. Depending on the workload, reducing it to 4 lanes may seriously bottleneck the GPU.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by lnsru »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #72
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. Do you have a source?

It is a bit conspiratorial. Since everything that’s is being made is shipped immediately and nobody has a warehouse to store bad Black Friday electronics I would take such statements with a grain of salt.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Post by hiq »

thinkloop wrote: post #59

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…

Not only that, but at least some companies just increase the prices slowly before Black Friday, such that what is shown as a discount on Black Friday is not really one. You might end up paying less 3 months after.
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