Month: January 2024

2023 New Original SSD 990 PRO M2 2280 Nvme PCIe Gen 4.0X4 2TB 4TB Internal Solid State Disk SSD HDD for Laptop/PS5/PC (WHL #92)

Fake flash from China today!

Fake drives have been around for quite some time now, it started out as USB flash drives emulating 2.5″ regular hard disks, scamming some tourists into buying worthless drives (and a pair of hex nuts, to simulate the weight). While classic spinning rust is basically dead for most people’s data transfer needs, fake flash has evolved. Nowadays, a lot of trash flash seems to end up in super-high capacity drives for pennies. There are legit 1 and 2TB USB flash drives, but those are 50€+ and 150€+ respectively, while the Chinesium ones stack up to 128TB and cost less than a tenner (more fake capacity still costs more money, obviously). […]

21st January 2024 22nd January 2024 By Bzzz In 1 Comment

Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth-compatible Thermometer 2 Electric Humidity Smart Home Wireless Hygrometer LCD Digital Moisture (WHL #91)

Some new gadgets have been sitting here for a while – couldn’t be arsed to write about them last week

It’s pack of three Xiaomi Mijia Temperature + Humidity Monitor 2 (what a name), product number seems to be LYWSD03MMC. They cost me 15.58€ in December, inclusive of shipping and indeed one CR2032 coin cell per unit. Units from German distributors are more like 10 to 15€ each with negligible volume discounts – and shipping cost on top of that.

Anyway, here’s an explosion view from the unit, likely made by Xiaomi and not the seller:

I’ve been using other cheapo thermometer/hygrometer units for the past, well, probably 10 to 15 years, they’re really inexpensive at sub-2€ each and run on LR44 batteries basically indefinitely. […]

7th January 2024 8th January 2024 By Bzzz In No Comment