Amazon Prime Bargains - Chat Thread

Its not a bad lock. My new hobby is lockpicking so I'll always take an interest in any locks mentioned on boards.

Provided you have enough meat in the locking system to prevent the lock being attacked with bolt cutters you've done about as much as you can. Very few thieves if any will look at a lock in terms of how easy it is to pick (unless its stupid easy).

If you lost the key and called out a locksmith they would just cut it off with an angle grinder ;-)

a sturdy U-lock is fine for a cheapish run-around bike - there's so many nice bikes locked up with crap cable locks, bike thieves will generally go for whatever is the quickest to remove. Crap-looking bike with a half decent lock is as theft proof as you can get, just make sure to lock up next to a better looking bike with a worse lock.

personally I wouldn't lock a decent bike on the street in Dublin with any type of lock; even if the lock is really resistant to attack you run the risk that some gurrier will have a go anyway and damage the bike in the process (or just steal your components).

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@Seattle I'd be surprised if it would take that long for the phone to be delivered. The other thread is a no chat thread. It's decent value for a budget phone and you can check the specs on Kilmovil.

https://www.kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-poco-c65

I'd hope it wouldn't take that long but there's no guarantee I suppose.

my wife has a xiaomi redmi (note 12) and it’ll be the last xiaomi phone we buy.. constant issues with it, from alarms not going off, to frequent and now consistent issues with any form of online purchase that requires verification

The problem I've found with the cheap android phones is that if they get a new version of Android they get noticeably slower.

I had a Redmi Note 10 for the last 3 years, it's was fine with the Android 11 it shipped with, but by the time it got Android 13 it was dog slow and it won't get any further updates. It was possibly better a few years ago when the cheap phones never got any updates!

Samsung, Google and some others are now offering 5+ years of updates - whether those updates will make the phone unusably slow, IDK.

Re. the Internet radio posted. If I have a smart speaker already, does a standalone Internet radio offer anything different or extra?

Reviews agree. It's cheap for a reason. What would you recommend?

Convenience I guess. The drawback to them is a degree of built-in obsolescence (similar can be said for smart TVs). Unless the software is kept updated, which is unlikely, over time services will stop working with it. This was an issue with the BBC a couple of years ago if memory serves. Of course if it has BlueTooth, then it can always serve as a speaker as fallback.

I'd have more confidence in something sold by Ikea not burning the house down that some "Chinese Export" tat from Amazon

I wake up to BBC Radio 4 on the Pure Connect + each morning. All of the BBC Radio channels and podcasts are available.