The Black Friday deals were a bit so-so this year, but one thing I did get at a way cheaper price than RRP is the Elgato Stream Deck XL. I have had my eyes on this for a while now, but the almost $500 AUD price tag was a deterrent. I managed to get it for $336, a substantial discount from the $460 price it usually is.
Despite the name “Stream Deck” the Elgato Stream Deck is not just for streamers. I do believe that was their initial focus and probably a large part of their customer base are streamers, but this thing can work with your entire system.
My wife and I just sold our house, and for the next seven or so months, while we build a new home, we are renting. The rental property has NBN installed, and annoyingly the NBN box is located inside of the garage.
Googling seems to suggest that this is quite common, especially for NBN fibre connections. The problem with the NBN box being located in the garage is obvious: the reception sucks, and in larger homes, you get blackspots.
My wife loves Grey’s Anatomy and while I do find it somewhat cheesy at times, it’s our thing that we watch together and another couple of good friends. Sometimes it can be entertaining television.
But, we need to address the big fat elephant in the room: Station 19.
The show is associated with famed Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes set in the same universe as Grey’s Anatomy. It is produced by Shonda’s production company Shondaland. Now, given the success of Grey’s Anatomy, it’s understandable ABC would give her another show.
I’m getting sick of blogging about Galaxycove, but they just can’t help but continually be dishonest and attempt to deceive people.
I received an email from Megan at Galaxycove today claiming they are having a 50% off sale. Instead of $159 USD, they’re claiming to sell them at $79 USD instead.
Here is the thing. They are always being sold at $79 USD, even before this alleged sale. That’s the price that I paid months ago.
In what can only be described as the world’s worst idea, some economists at Deutsche Bank have proposed taxing workers 5% of their salary if they choose to work from home.
In the linked story it goes on to say
By working from home, people aren’t paying for public transport or eating out at restaurants near their places of work, while expensive offices remain virtually empty.
Since when am I or any other contributing member of society obligated to spend their money? Why should people be taxed because they are not using public transport (many of which only use out of necessity, despite how poor it is in many countries).
If you are not familiar with Marak on GitHub, you might be familiar with some of their work, most notably Faker.js which is a Node.js package for generating fake data.
Well, Marak is taking a stand and honestly, it’s commendable and I 100% support it. In a Github issue on the Faker repository titled No more free work from Marak – Pay Me or Fork This, while it might appear that this was prompted by a Fortune 500 company asking for things, the following Tweet might provide some insight.
Another day, another possible controversy marring the tainted Galaxycove brand that is prevalent across social media. In case you missed my review and experience buying a Galaxycove projector, you can read about that here. You can also read about Galaxycove flagging legitimate negative reviews on their TrustPilot page here.
After having my negative and legitimate review flagged, I got it reinstated by providing proof that I actually purchased a projector from Galaxycove, my review now has the “verified” label on it over at TrustPilot.
It seems that almost no one learned from the dot com crash of the early 2000s which saw numerous internet companies valued at clinically insane valuations and overfunded fail causing widespread layoffs and market turmoil. Quibi is the latest high-profile casualty that has announced it is shutting down.
The shutdown was honestly, all but inevitable, Quibi was never going to work. Which is why it might surprise some to learn they raised almost $2 billion US dollars, securing $1.75 billion in funding. Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea?
The US Justice Department has announced they are suing Google for antitrust violations. The crux of the legal matter stems from this line in the filing, “unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising in the United States.”
If you don’t mind a bit of dry legal jargon and extensive reading, the full filing is available here and it is quite interesting the information they have collected during their investigation.
Chances are, you and everyone you know or love has heard about the new iPhone 12 that Apple just announced at one of its cult-like keynote events. Now, Apple releasing a new iPhone is not surprising, it’s about as expected as the sun rising tomorrow.
While Apple has run out of ways to surprise and delight their customers as competitors and Apple find themselves on equal footing in terms of features and power, sometimes Apple finding themselves behind, they have managed to shock consumers once again and it’s not a new feature that has everyone talking.