Black Friday-What are you buying?
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My tech buddy has the Google mesh system and loves it, says it is flawless and one of his best purchases.
I set this up for my parents and they have internet like they've never had before. Really awesome system.
Probably going to upgrade from this:
Keep hearing that the blackberry is all the rage. Any deals? TIA
Keep hearing that the blackberry is all the rage. Any deals? TIA
Not conflating anything. Black Friday sales start on Thanksgiving at some stores and plenty of people on social media complain every year that it shouldn’t because Thanksgiving is family time only. But not everyone has family to be with and some make shopping part of what they do with their family so the folks complaining should just mind their own business and stop trying to make everyone else conform to their beliefs.
Not much for myself; maybe a deal on a good Bluetooth speaker for work since my Sony one crapped out. My kids both need new tablets so we'll be on the lookout for Amazon Kindles.
I've had Google Mesh for a couple of years and I get great speeds throughout the house, garage, and yard.
In the past I tried other methods like powerline, multiple routers, etc. and they we're all either slower or a pain in the ass to configure. This Google mesh has been set it and forget it.
https://store.ui.com/products/unifi-ac-mesh-ap
I don't have these mesh ap, I've used the UAP-AC-PRO and UAP-IW-HD-US because of the needs I had. These were a suggestion in cable cutting thread. I also have their gateway and switch. I'm guessing the google mesh are great as well, but you can't go wrong with the Ubiquiti stuff.
I'm still waiting to see what kind of deals Auto Trader is running. Last year they had some smoking deals on dash mat kits and foot print gas pedals.
I tried looking on the website quick, but didn't see what kind of range one of those would provide. If I have a 1950 SF single story home, would I need more than one?
Same question for anybody with experience with the Google mesh system.
well by definition...it has to be a "Friday" to be "Black Friday". Just sayin'
Also (and you seemed to missed the point because your concern in your response was for shoppers, not the workers), is that this forces already underpaid and underappreciated retail workers to work a holiday....the one small benefit they used to be able to count on....i.e....having Thanksgiving off.
I worked plenty of retail in high school, college and shortly after. My sense is maybe you haven't or you'd have a bit more consideration for the workers vs the shoppers? A retail/service's industry worker always are having to work weekends, evenings, some holidays already. It is (was) nice to provide them a break like most of us get for major holidays.
It is fine if you disagree. It is a bit of a snowflake mentality that you don't want to hear people suggest on social media that maybe these folks deserve the holiday off....as was essentially the norm for decades.
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Black Friday starts on Thursday, at least as far as brick and mortar stores go.
Don’t the underpaid retail people get double time for working thanksgiving? It’s a good opportunity to make extra cash for Christmas isn’t it?
But you’re right I never worked retail because I don’t like dealing with aholes or working holidays. Personally I’d be fine if they went back to starting on Friday but you know that won’t happen because $$$$.
