Who's treated themselves to some new hardware recently..?

[bigpup]

Went to the local discount store that sales returns and odd one of a kind items.

Today is 50% off day on what they charge for an item.
They do this about one day a week. Usually on Friday.

Found this in a box of just different computer stuff.
Just a big mess of different things in a box, you can dig around in.

Got it for $1.50 US. (50% off day) Even $3.00 would be a good price for this. It is two micro SD cards and a full size SD card adapter.

It was marked as a return, but I have found nothing wrong with either of the micro SD cards.
They are formatted exfat, but no problem changing that.
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This is Walmart's electronic hardware brand, but so what.
I have had good results using this brand of equipment.

Love this discount store, but you never know what they will have to sale.

[wizard]

@bigpup

This is Walmart's electronic hardware brand, but so what.

Another bargain, although you might want to run read/write speed test on them. Tried one of the ONN USB drives and its speed was below USB 1.0.

Would like for your store to open a location here.

Thanks
wizard

[bigpup]

You can see that this is packaged for photo and video cameras.

Marked as V30 and 4K.

So It is not offered as some kind of high speed device.

What do you want for $1.50

Video Speed Class

The latest Video Speed Class was created to enable higher video resolution and recording features such as multiple video streams, 360-degree capture, VR content, and 4K or 8K resolution videos. They’re usually denoted with the “V” symbol. There are five ratings for the Video Speed Class:

V6 (Video Speed Class 6): minimum write speed of 6MB/s
V10 (Video Speed Class 10): minimum write speed of 10MB/s
V30 (Video Speed Class 30): minimum write speed of 30MB/s
V60 (Video Speed Class 60): minimum write speed of 60MB/s
V90 (Video Speed Class 90): minimum write speed of 90MB/s

The Video Speed Class is unique because it’s capable of utilizing both the UHS-I and UHS-II bus interfaces. V6 to V90 speed class memory cards can use the UHS-II bus interface, but the UHS-I bus interface can only support V6 to V30 speed class memory cards.

The Video Speed Class offers the fastest speeds available and is ideal for ultra-high-resolution videos, high-quality videos and multi-file recording in drones and 360-degree cameras. It supports HD formats up to 8K video in drones, 360-degree cameras, action cams and VR cameras.

[ozsouth]

I shouted myself a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 1i - on sale - down 25%. Celeron n4500, 4Gb ram, 128Gb emmc. It is surprisingly snappy, runs cool & the 1.3kg 14" size is very portable, without being flimsy. Mostly worked ootb except touchpad & wifi in my standard Slacko/Fossa pups. I added some iwlwifi-Q firmware & wifi works. Touchpad was more difficult. Noblepup runs the touchpad & wifi ootb, so I used its 6.8.12 kernel (un-usrmerged). After much reading & 6 goes at compiles with various DOTconfigs, I made a 6.9.12 overlay-only kernel, which runs everything. Is half the size of 6.8.12. I had to run a script with xinput set-prop from /usr/sbin/delayedrun to activate touchpad on boot.
LATER: Have now also made a 6.6.52 overlay-only kernel which works too & doesn't need delayedrun script.
One issue for some folk: I first thought I'd save the win11s to a usb stick, but I would be forced to use wifi & make a ms account - no way to boot without it. So I booted a usb stick (F12 to select boot device), formatted the win main partition (115Gb) as ext3 & copied puppy sfs's there. In the first (boot) partition, I renamed the windows EFI folder as EFI.WIN & added my own syslinux EFI folder. When I rebooted, got to bios (F2) & disabled secure boot & a few other items. I did leave the recovery partition in case I eventually give it away to someone who wants win.

[wizard]

@ozsouth

I first thought I'd save the win11s to a usb stick, but I would be forced to use wifi & make a ms account - no way to boot without it.

For future reference, Hiren BootCD (W10 version with Aomei Backup) or Rescuezilla booted from USB or from a Ventoy USB could create a backup image of the partition. This could be restored and the system would be back at factory, if desired.

wizard