It's tempting, but I'm sticking to Hue bulbs. I went off-piste with some E14 Hue-compatible bulbs a bit back (before there were E14 Hues available) and whilst they were fine, they didn't have quite the range of brightness as Hue (or darkness rather), sometimes buzzed when they were at min brightness and to update them had to be removed from Hue, re-paired with their own bridge, updated, removed and then re-paired with the Hue bridge. All of these seem like relatively minor things, but compared to full first-party hue it's night and day.
My list is fairly short. Panasonic EX700 50" TV from John Lewis (was same price everywhere and could take home that day) Bosch 18v 4.0a batteries from Amazon down to £25 so I bought 4 absolute bargain. New wedding ring for the misses as she lost it. Amazon Echo (for my dad) GHDs for the Misses. Bosch 18v SDS drill Various Christmas presents
Another bike (so 6 now). Bought that from a chap on Facebook. Then I bought some parts in the BF sale.
use camelcamelcamel.com to track prices on Amazon and buy when it gets reduced. Simples. Found most black friday deals to be little to no cost saving compared to earlier this year.
Cross-post from here. Not all of this was on offer... Nitecore D2 charger - my trusty old i2 popped a cap and I no longer have spare caps about the place... Not buying a pack of capacitors for one job! (and besides, there might be other faults besides just a blown electrolytic cap...) Hue dimmer switch/remote, because using my phone is just too much effort... RunCam Micro Swift 2 VM275T camera/5.8GHz VTX combo - this thing is tiny... seriously tiny!
I got one of those played around with it then returned it. Only Black Friday deal was to pick up some power-line 1200 passthroughs for £30.
Just got some charging devices to replace my old ones.I bought a qi wireless charger for my iPhone 8. Then went to some shopping malls like Anker, bestekmall to collect some coupons and finally bough these: 4-port USB charger with type-c, 8-outlet power strip, speaker for my car and a new earphone.And on Cyber Monday, I also bought some food... a harvest month
For us, it's £1000+ worth of "grown up" stuff: -Baby buggy travel system -Cotbed and drawer changing unit -about £300 worth of baby cloth for first 3-6 months All very grown up for me...... I'd have preferred to spend it on a 7700K upgrade and that £350 Oculus..... but responsibilities
They start off really expensive, get slightly cheaper for a few years and then get more and more expensive from then on.
A scythe.... Well I was going to keep an eye out for deal on the pixel 6 as I've only 1 month left on this contract anyway and also try and find the cheapest 1tb m.2 drive I could find, to use for all my video production stuff and leave the 512 boot drive for programs and games but seeing as that requirement is kind of lacking and future income currently looks like an MI6 agent's prefix, I shall likely end up selling things, rather than buying anything.
Something to deal with Spam it's kind of annoying and get's everywhere but someone already got me something for it, it's called a "Ignore" feature to contain it and hide it away
