Until you start your Masters
Only if I can get work to pay for it!
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Tropical aquarium 
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Nice! I want one as well but I get a corporate discount on the Apple website so I’m waiting for that to apply to the new iMacs first. Trying to be patient!
How are you finding it and what options did you go for? I’m probably getting the 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM upgrades.
Definitely counts, and I’m impressed! I briefly had a much more basic system in a doomed experiment to try to keep my plants growing fast enough to offset the rate my new (at the time) Silver Dollars were eating them. The SDs were an unexpected acquisition and, at first, I was horrified by their grazing (this is the word used in the Local Fish Shop - I’d now use a minimum of the word ‘guzzling’) and tried various desperate schemes to mitigate - all to no avail.
FWIW - the SDs are about 5 years old now, I’ve forgotten the joy of a lush green tank, but I fell in love with the SDs the first time the tank lights came on… Not sure I’ll ever love the bog wood and rock look though - I won’t miss the algae management though!
Good luck with the aquascaping!
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I went for the base model with a 256GB SSD and standard 8GB memory. Started with a clean install and only downloaded apps I was actively using - find this way to be the best at cutting out the crap. Might need to think about an external SSD later.
It’s working fine so far, can’t believe how good the sound is from something so thin.
Took screen shots on my iPhone of launchpad beforehand to log all my apps then used Markup to 
or 
them as I went along.
Controversial opinion from me here.
Get it plugged in and then use the Xbox app on your phone to download updates, sign in and download some games in advance.
You won’t actually use the console but it will give you the jump on it being ready when you finish. Nothing worse then just wanting to play something and then having to wait hours for it to download.
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Sounds similar to my story however it was my huge pleco ripping up my plants. My solution was to buy a second tank to get a planted aquarium 
Having always had a communtiy tank I decided to go species only too and its full of 30 dwarf pea puffers, which are ace and full of character.
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I should have listened to by gut feeling!
The screen on my S8+ died today and 80% of it is just white 
I think this is the end of the road.
I’m now looking at the S21 Ultra. Does anyone have any feedback or better still know of any good deals?
My Mrs loves hers. It’s a seriously nice piece of tech. Screen and cameras are top notch. The 120 FPS makes me extremely envious when comparing to my iPhone 11.
I would say the only downside is the size. I like my big phones but I find it super heavy in the hand. Maybe this is just something you get used to as my Mrs never complains.
They do currently have a cashback deal on which may be of use.
I was lucky enough to get hers on a contract misprice, as it would usually be way out of my price range.
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Awesome thanks for that! I forgot about Hotukdeals so I found the below:
Good old samsung trade in means that if I select cracked screen, it will only give me £50. Whereas if I select broken phone, and mark the reason as broken screen I get £150 
So according to the comments if I combine this with all the other promotions it works out like this:
S21 5G
£769 - £200 (Broken Phone)
£569 - 10% Voucher (Samsung Friends referral)
£512.1 - 5% Samsung Pay+
£486.49 - 5% TCB
£460.89 - £100 Samsung Cashback
=£360.89
Which is a crazy deal! So I just need to work out what it would be on the Ultra… 
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A man after my own heart!
Some of the incentives Samsung offer are crazy.
My S21 Ultra deal was equally enticing.
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Woah. That’s an absolute steal 
I’m struggling to get all the offers to combine. Paying with samsung pay isn’t an option for me and I can’t find a Samsung Friends referral that works.
Despite finding some on Reddit that are minutes old, unless I’m not applying it correctly or they’ve now stopped them from stacking?
Edit: Found out why the referral codes weren’t working. They had a 20% off code that they pulled after only a few hours which seems to have broken all the others. I really want that 20% code. The solution is for me to email their support so I’m hoping that when they re-open tomorrow that they’ll honor it 
Call Of Duty Cold War ( if that counts as tech )
Best FPS i’ve ever played
I’m considering upgrading my Kindle to a Kindle Oasis. Not sure if I’m being suckered to a good marketing thing or not…
I just ordered a Paperwhite. I considered the Oasis, but couldn’t find a reason to justify the huge price increase.
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I do love my Paperwhite. Paying the tenner to turn off ads and enable the book cover as screensaver feature has been surprisingly pleasing. Just wish it has a bloody USB C port 
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I really like the look of some of the newer Kobos but at this stage I’m too far into the Kindle ecosystem with purchases and convenience to switch.
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Just ordered the 10 piece Ring Alarm systems as it’s deeply discounted.
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I recently went for the upgrade from the Google Pixel 3A up to the Pixel 5 and actually having a battery charge that lasts has been my biggest relief so far.
Screen size is a solid upgrade as well as the slight camera improvement. I feel the true benefits will be more noticeable once it’s more viable to have a social life. (We’ve just hit Level 2 in Glasgow 
)
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