Upload speed is crawling. A megabyte and a half โ just awful.
SAM4
What a gift the Croatians gave me for my birthday! True, for now it’s only on PC and some Stadia, so while I wait for it to come out on my console โ I’ll replay the third one again.
New โ just slightly refurbished old
My Logitech G930 headphones are not without their issues โ the battery has weakened, the sound drops out occasionally, and there’s no alternative connection method besides their own USB dongle โ yet they remain the only ones that connected to the PlayStation (for some reason Sony’s console refused to see my Sony headphones over Bluetooth). And unlike those Sony ones, the G930s play music and voice calls equally well โ because the Sonys switch to headset mode during calls and the background music sounds like it’s coming through a phone.
An Alternative to a Campfire
Sometimes there is simply nowhere to make a campfire, or no time for it โ or you got your fill of woodsmoke yesterday and now all you want is to boil a kettle.
Better an axe in hand than a fig in your pocket
The next addition to the camping arsenal was a hand tool โ an axe. After swinging someone else’s for a bit, I realized I needed one of my own. And on the advice of friends (not to compensate for anything) โ I chose the longer model, the Fiskars X25.
Sleeping Pads
Our first camping experience showed that sleeping on foam pads isn’t the most comfortable thing, so our little camper kit has now been joined by these inflatable sleeping pads.
emergency supply 3.5
A box of six such packages arrived recently.
Branded screwdriver set
And who just received this adorable little Chinese screwdriver set? That would be me
The case is magnetic and holds every bit in place. It’s also a metal-and-plastic combo โ a metal sleeve slides over the plastic tray.
Finally I have a Torx with a hole! No more having to snap out those miserable pins in screws!
The set is mostly small-to-micro sizes
With a few non-standard bits…
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A Little Cleanup
This is what the insides of a six-year-old laptop look like
The Theory of Big Discounts
“Come and get it, prices slashed!” โ that’s basically what an email from Amazon was screaming at me about a grand sale on all sorts of stuff from WD and SanDisk.