I had forgotten that Ben Heck had a YT channel. I knew about the Tested channel, but I’m not subscribed to it yet, because Adam typically will put the videos up on Twitter.
So, I’ve been using Gesture Browsing for the last week exclusively on my OnePlus 7 Pro. In Android 10’s settings for this, there’s three defaults: the launcher bar that everyone and their mother is used to, swiping down from a corner of the screen to go back, and swiping from right to left to go back. Guess who fucking put the down gesture as the default like a fucking dope? The right to left to go back on stuff bodies that shit free.
Finally got my Honor Band 5 in the mail today. The stuff took over a fucking month to get here from Shenzhen, and was delayed at LAX for something like 10 days or some shit. Originally got my money back from Amazon, but got a tracking number for it over the weekend; to which I promptly let Amazon know. Their response? Keep it.
Also, wtf is Alipay? 
I’m excited for these. I have the XM2 and they are excellent headphones. If the XM4 has multi device support I’m there day one.
So, initial impressions of the Honor Band 5 after three days of using it:
- Battery lasts for fucking ever. I don’t think I was halfway down before I plugged it up earlier.
- The single band design is godawful. I mean, it’s really fucking bad; and the material is basically plastic.
- Notifications to stand up and stretch every couple of hours whenever I’m sitting.
- Built-in faces are nice, but they are incredibly simple.
- Options can be actually removed, so Alipay was gone almost immediately.
- Step Tracking needs to be improved.
Also, the charging “brick” is small as fuck and looks like it could be lost very easily.
Amazon got a sale on their ring devices. They have their peephole cam with a free 3rd gen echo dot for $80. I don’t have a real need for neither device but it’s too good to pass up.
I don’t use Ring devices because of their app that encourages neighbors to snitch on each other. I’m steady waiting for a sale on Nest cameras …
Oh, and I paid off my phone today!
Ring’s competitors don’t offer a peephole. I live in an apartment so I can’t use the doorbells. Speaking of which, my sister recently brought a house and she has no doorbell. I might get her a Eufy cam as they are the only ones that doesn’t require you to for pay cloud storage for recordings.
Submitted the request last Sunday for the unlock key to unlock my bootloader on my OnePlus 7. That should show up in email while I’m gone for the holiday. Also taking a crapton of tech on the trip as well, not including stuff like my Switch and controllers for it.
I’m going to give this thread a quick bump.
I recently got this
This little thing has a strong bass. Been wanting something like this for a while so I can listen to some music when I ride my bike. Offering from Bose and JBL are double the price of what it cost me for this. It comes with it’s own strip so no need to get anything extra to put it on the bike.
Speaking of bikes, I’m seriously considering getting an ebike. I already setup an appointment with a shop to test ride some of the ones I’m interested in. Fuck me for living in a place with lots of hills.
So, I’m looking at downsizing my Yubikey to one of the Google Titan security fobs. The Yubikey has proven to be a little too much for me, while proving to be much more configurable.
I thought all you needed to do with security fobs is plug into a device to unlock it. Is there something I’m missing here?
Technically, that’s how they work. Since I’m using USB-C a lot now, I’m looking at getting a second/newer one that has that. Yubikey is outrageous on their prices, but it looks like they recently introduced the model I use with a USB-C end. That’s nice, because that cuts the cost down about $20.
1 Like
Who wants an Amazon drone camera flying around their house?
Since it’s Ring, absolutely fucking not. Don’t want cops openly snooping my shit.
Prime day is going to be on October 13th. I might walk away with a couple Amazon devices for dirt cheap.
1 Like
I’m looking at getting a smart desk clock for the office here, and the two main players for those are Lenovo and Amazon. I’ll wait and see if the Lenovo one drops in price or if it’s offered on a lightning deal on Prime Day, otherwise I guess I’ll pick up the Amazon one sigh
I have the Lenovo clock on my night stand. It’s pretty neat. I like yelling at it to stop when my alarm goes off. I got it when was on sale for $40 at Wal Mart.
I want to pick up some smart display so my family can use them for video calls. I’m hoping the new Echo Show 10 will be available by then.
Amazon isn’t wasting time on some of their Prime Day deals.
They already having 2 for 1 sales for the new gen Echo Dot. I’m going to hold out to see if they get cheaper on Prime Day.
1 Like
more than likely, we could see a 2 for $60 deal for those on Prime Day; that would be actually insane and bring them in line with what Google charges currently for the current-gen Home Mini. That would be pretty much a no-brainer for me if they offered two at that price, $80 before tax for me is a large ask, especially with the missus tightening her belt for the holidays.
1 Like
