12-21-2019, 01:28 AM | #31 |
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12-21-2019, 01:31 AM | #32 |
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My hubby bought himself a fun "repro" retro style Casio calculator watch earlier this year for $25 from Walmart. It was purely a nostalgia thing though because he uses his Fitbit as a watch every day! Still, I am always excited to see things being "made again" - even if they are not as good in quality as the originals. It is the thought that counts, right?
Last month I got a nice deal on a hardly-used Kobo Clara HD and am LOVING it so far! Just have to figure out if I am ready to part with any of my other remaining eInk devices as I can't really justify having more than about 2 around. Hubby loves the spare 2nd Gen Paperwhite still, and I have to admit I still turn to mine when I want to read something from the many titles I have amassed on the Amazon ecosystem. Best electronics purchase this year was my hubby's Fitbit Charge 3. It was an upgrade to the Alta that he started with last November (which I inherited) and thanks to both, he has stayed on-track for a minimum of 10,000 steps per day for just over a year now, and with a weight loss so far of over 75 lbs! I honestly thought those things were just a "gimmick" but hey, if they are what he needed for motivation (he is VERY much a data/numbers person) then I am not going to complain! |
12-21-2019, 01:47 AM | #33 |
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12-21-2019, 01:53 AM | #34 | |
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12-21-2019, 02:15 AM | #35 |
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Mock if you will (and it seems you must), but when I have a bath, I am too tired to hold anything, and have all four limbs submerged.
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12-21-2019, 02:39 AM | #36 | |
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12-21-2019, 07:12 AM | #37 |
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Why drive a car that does 120 MPH when the speed limit is 70? More capability is always good. At the very minimum, more room for music, movies, podcast and audiobooks. Yea, ebooks don't take up all that much room.
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12-21-2019, 09:39 AM | #38 |
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The cheapest Quartz watch will always be more accurate than the most expensive mechanical watch. Also, the down side to any solar powered watch is replacing the capacitor when it stops holding a charge. Yes it happens to more solar watches than most people realize. Depending on the manufacturer of the watch and the person replacing said capacitor, the cost can run 25 to 100 times more than the cost of a battery. It is also more involved to change out a capacitor compared to a battery.
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12-21-2019, 09:41 AM | #39 | |
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12-21-2019, 10:44 AM | #40 | |
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12-21-2019, 11:53 AM | #41 |
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I was at Costco yesterday to get a portable HD. They had them in either 2T and 5T for under $70.
I remember my first 40M Seagate (MFM) costing me $450 (sale price) and thinking I had TONS of space for my MSDOS files Later, a 100M Zip disk for backups was the cats Meow! (I recently bulk erased those and binned them as almost nothing (programs) fits that size). How times change, in 2017 I was building out system racks with 22 Petabytes of storage EACH SERVER |
12-21-2019, 12:15 PM | #42 |
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I'm not sure that a new computer is a "gadget," but let's say it is. Bought a new iMac with a SSD and it boots up in 32 seconds, including typing my password, which is a revelation. My old one I normally put to sleep at night because it took so long to boot up.
Bought a Kobo Forma which I like and which has become my go-to reader, despite a couple of aggravations. It has a propensity to freeze which requires that you hold down the on/off button for a long time and that button is really poorly designed. Other aggravation is that it isn't easy to find an author's books because the Forma sorts some authors by last name and some by first, even though they're all side-loaded from Calibre and are all Kepub. Jim |
12-21-2019, 12:32 PM | #43 |
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Now that you mention it, need to buy new portable drives.
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12-21-2019, 01:17 PM | #44 | |
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