Yet more frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need...
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Decided I wanted a small tablet for travel. Watching or doing stuff on a phone isn't ideal, so the criteria was small tablet with 4G as data is cheap @ for example £10 for 60Gb. Choices were Apple iPad Mini 6 or a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3. But the prices of Apple were eyewatering - £929 for a 256Gb variant vs. £200 for brand new Tab Active 3's on FBMP which I could insert a 512Gb Micro SD card into for whopping storage. Last year I'd upgraded The Vikingettes iPhones for Pro Max 15's and didn't want to be stung for the Crapple Tax again.
Dither, dither and I cam across the Tab Active 5 from CEX Grade A, boxed and unused for £440. Collected about 5 bridge cameras from 2013 that had been lying in a drawer unused for 5+ years, an iPad Air 1 and a tough camera and total haul in store credit voucher was £429. As I was in Brumingham over Easter I collected the Tab Active 5 from there for a princely sum of £429 voucher and £11 cash. Best part is that the Tab Active 5 has 5G.
Frivolous because I have a 11 inch tablet for home use.
Dither, dither and I cam across the Tab Active 5 from CEX Grade A, boxed and unused for £440. Collected about 5 bridge cameras from 2013 that had been lying in a drawer unused for 5+ years, an iPad Air 1 and a tough camera and total haul in store credit voucher was £429. As I was in Brumingham over Easter I collected the Tab Active 5 from there for a princely sum of £429 voucher and £11 cash. Best part is that the Tab Active 5 has 5G.
Frivolous because I have a 11 inch tablet for home use.
madbadger said:
Quite frivolous. Don’t need an expensive cool box as it is only about 8° today. Partial to orange stuff though. 
Nothing frivolous about that - remember it'll also keep things hot!My 'record' is a hot hold of a 22lb smoked brisket for 18 hours, at a safe temp the entire time. In fact, for the first four hours the meat kept on cooking!
Sway said:
madbadger said:
Quite frivolous. Don’t need an expensive cool box as it is only about 8° today. Partial to orange stuff though.
Nothing frivolous about that - remember it'll also keep things hot!My 'record' is a hot hold of a 22lb smoked brisket for 18 hours, at a safe temp the entire time. In fact, for the first four hours the meat kept on cooking!
king love Pendulum.
gregs656 said:
Super Sonic said:
JLC Atmos clock. Never needs winding.
The closest thing to a perpetual motion machine. Not actually contravening the second law of thermodynamics, but ignoring it.
It’s, obviously, no closer than anything else. They’re nice clocks, though. The closest thing to a perpetual motion machine. Not actually contravening the second law of thermodynamics, but ignoring it.
Super Sonic said:
gregs656 said:
Super Sonic said:
JLC Atmos clock. Never needs winding.
The closest thing to a perpetual motion machine. Not actually contravening the second law of thermodynamics, but ignoring it.
It’s, obviously, no closer than anything else. They’re nice clocks, though. The closest thing to a perpetual motion machine. Not actually contravening the second law of thermodynamics, but ignoring it.
They are nowhere near a perpetual motion machine though which has to work without any external energy source. The atmos is using the energy created by temperature and pressure changes
stemll said:
Never needs manual winding. It is constantly winding itself so, to answer your question, any self-winding watch.
They are nowhere near a perpetual motion machine though which has to work without any external energy source. The atmos is using the energy created by temperature and pressure changes
You can't leave a 'self-winding' (automatic) watch on the side for months. They are nowhere near a perpetual motion machine though which has to work without any external energy source. The atmos is using the energy created by temperature and pressure changes
Super Sonic said:
stemll said:
Never needs manual winding. It is constantly winding itself so, to answer your question, any self-winding watch.
They are nowhere near a perpetual motion machine though which has to work without any external energy source. The atmos is using the energy created by temperature and pressure changes
You can't leave a 'self-winding' (automatic) watch on the side for months. They are nowhere near a perpetual motion machine though which has to work without any external energy source. The atmos is using the energy created by temperature and pressure changes
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