What's the Last Bit of Tech You Bought?

I have no idea why anyone would pay for the 512gb one when you can just do this :joy:

That’s quite an expensive anti-glare protection at £200+ extra though! They’ve basically done an Apple, charging huge amounts for a bit of extra storage, but unlike Apple they haven’t prevented you just adding your own. I guess if you have the money to spend, then fair enough though.

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It plays gamepass games via xcloud which is here:

You can also stream your console to your steam deck using this video:

You can also install Windows 10/11 as well if you want the full windows experience.

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Nintendo almost annoy me in this respect by somehow releasing one must-play, knock it put the park game every 2-3 years, meaning I end up buying every Nintendo console but only ever play (at most) a handful of games on it.

It’s an extra gaming cost that as a PC gamer I could do without :sweat_smile:

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I bought a new TV. A Samsung something or other. It’s very smart; and it’s 4K.

It’s very difficult to find the way to watch terrestrial TV for Mrs Anarchist, though. 300 pages of instructions and not one instruction on how to watch Lorraine.

Worked it out in the end, luckily for the marriage! I long for the day when you can just plug the damn thing in, let it auto tune, without setting up an account and two PINs (1,1,1,1 and 1,1,1,1,1,1 if anyone wants to watch adult content on my TV). And do you know what? When I need the PIN I’ll have forgotten it!

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AdGuard is about the only macOS Safari adblocking extension worth using, only one I’ve found that works with YouTube consistently well

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My favourite / most used app is Maccy, which stores and lets you access your clipboard history. Granted my work involves copying a large number of things, but it’s useful for anyone and very lightweight

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Any stand-out reason(s) why the switchback happened?

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Monzo would seem to suggest the opposite.

But Chase would certainly seem to support this hypothesis.

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They are and always will be. Android phones vary so much in power, size and tech like cameras / mics / speakers, it’s just difficult to design something that works well and looks good on everything. iPhones are more of a standard canvas. Shame for android, but it’ll always be an issue

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Bought a pair of Yubikeys for $10 each through Cloudflare. Just had to add a domain and set up a simple website to comply with the offer.

Pretty impressed with the Yubikeys and now have my Bitwarden vault protected with them and also my Proton account.

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That offer was fantastic, made me finally upgrade from an old USB-A NEO to a 5C

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The first thing I thought of when I saw your reply was this:

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I’d agree when it comes to Indy apps. But the big apps are all much of a muchmess to me on both platforms.

Rather than iOS having better apps, the issue I find is iOS having the app full stop, and it not existing on Android.

Again, doesn’t affect the big services but many an Indy app is only on iOS.

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These are both 5C NFC and cover all my devices - Macs, iPhone (via NFC), iPad Pro (has USB C) and Pixel 6a.

I’ve also replaced my TOTP authenticator app with the Yubico one which stores them all on the keys themselves.

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I have the offer (x2) but cant decide which ones to get.

Haha yeah that’s exactly why I went for that one too. I was tempted by the shorter USB-C one but I wanted NFC so went for the 5C NFC. My old NEO was finicky with USB towards the end so NFC was the only way it worked well.

I use Keeper for my TOTP for convenience, but I have my most important accounts saved to YubiKey too.

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At one point Cloudflare was cheaper for .uk domains than cost-price directly from Nominet. For some reason after conversion I paid £3.88 for a domain but through work would have been more expensive at cost price (£3.75) + VAT.

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Just checked my six domains and looks like moving from Hover to Cloudlfare will save me $39 per year!!!

That’s insane. Will be transferring tonight!

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AFAIK it’s still available.

That’s why you order a pair of keys - primary and backup🙂

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