Sunday 29th September - Here Comes That Syncthing Feeling

The Tech Addicts Podcast

Gareth and Ted are joined by Ricky West to cheat about Syncthing, Huawei's HarmonyOS, Lenovo's new gaming tablet, FiiO KA15 DAC, Wear OS 5, Vivo on Android 15, Motorola Thinkphone, Hasselblad's limited camera medium format camera, Galaxy Tab S10+ and Ultra rumours, OpenAI and ChatGPT pricing, Marshall Monitor III, Pro-Ject T1 EVO and a little deal from Denon!

With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon Join us on Mewe

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Feedback, Fallout and Contributions

Ian Barton on SiliconDust HDHomeRun

For several years I have been running an i3 box with Archlinux and TVHeadend to record TV. A couple of months ago the motherboard died. I wanted to record TV directly to one of my UNRAID servers up in the attic. Unfortunately, there are no TV aerial coax connections in the attic. I decided to buy this box. You can plug the HDHomeRun into your aerial in the lounge and use the other aerial connector to plug directly into the TV. The HD Homerun has an ethernet port so I can connect to another box somewhere on the network. Using Emby I can connect directly to the box to watch live TV. Emby on my UNRAID server supports HDHomeRun, so I can record TV programs using the schedule from the HDHomerun. I can watch Emby recordings from anywhere else on the planet that has WiFi and decent Internet access. HDHomeRun app on both Android and iOS that allows you to record programs and watch the recordings.

Steve Litchfield on Why you (probably) don’t need a VPN

You're absolutely safe without a VPN. Every Internet-facing application accesses data over an already-secure connection. There's nothing bad guys could do even if they were to somehow intercept random batches of your over-the-air 1s and 0s. VPNs are OTT security. It will make activity significantly slower, because of extra encryption - pages will take longer to load, videos will buffer more. You just don't need a VPN. You really don't. Even in a dodgy cybercafe in Turkey. Your own encryption, built into your OS and applications, is quite enough. One caveat to all this - VPN's ability to fake where you are in the world to a service that you're accessing. Which is borderline illegal, or at least against terms of service of whichever service you're accessing. But so what? Save your money!

TCL 50 Pro NxtPaper - Ted’s Review

Linux Levity

Syncthing

News, Mews and Views

Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge

AI hype is at an all time high, but only a few of us actually use it daily

OpenAI reportedly plans to increase ChatGPT's price to $44 within five years

I tried Google’s new one-click AI podcast creator, and now I don’t know what’s real anymorehttps://www.starlingbank.com/blog/author/james-nesbitt/

Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs

Galaxy Buds FE Causes Hearing Loss After Exploding in User's Ear

Hardline on the hardware

Lenovo showcases its new compact Legion gaming tablet with a matte black finish

Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years

Hasselblad's limited edition £15,000 X2D 100C is for 'Adventurous Photographers'

Galaxy Tab S10+ and Ultra ditch Snapdragon for MediaTek Dimensity 9300+, start at $999

Audio Antics

FiiO’s KA15 is a $109 ‘cassette tape’ dongle DAC

The new Marshall Monitor III ANC headphones are comfy, sound great, and have a ridiculously long battery life

Pro-Ject's affordable new T1 EVO turntables are ideal to get serious about vinyl without breaking the bank

The Wearables Watch

Google's Wear OS 5 update arrives with a new grid view for the Pixel Watch 1 and 2

Phone Zone

Motorola is bringing the ThinkPhone back for another round in 2025 - Edge 50 Neo clone in Work Clothes!

Vivo just beat Google and Samsung by releasing Android 15 first

Flap your trap about an App

Declutter your PC and remove all of your empty directories with this handy tool 26,000 on my PC!

Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner

Tons of entry-level Chromebooks will now get updates until June of 2035 - Or do they?!

There’s a new ‘Sanitize’ feature on your Chromebook

Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

Tapo Smart Plug Wi-Fi Outlet 2 pack Now £15.99 20% off Was £19.99 + 6% Voucher at checkout

Tapo Smart Plug Wi-Fi Outlet 4 pack Now £22.99 42% off Was £39.99 + 6% Voucher at checkout

Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro - first reduction from £219 to £169

Synology DS423+ 4 Bay Desktop NAS Storage Server Now £414.99 19% off Was £509.99

TESSAN 10M 8 Way Multi Plug Extension Socket Tower £31.99 from £41.99

Denon D-M41DAB Hifi System Now £269.00 33% off Was £399.00

TCL 50 Pro NxtPaper £279.99 + free TCL NxtPaper Tab 11 (currently £169)

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