It's Black Friday 2025, and your wallet is already crying, isn't it? 💸 Engadget's here to soften the blow with epic tech deals under $50! From tiny chargers to smart plugs that *actually* listen (unlike some people 😉), they've got your impulse buys covered.

What's the best sub-$50 tech score you've ever made?

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Black Friday deals under $50 worth shopping for 2025: Apple AirTags, Legos, Ugreen chargers, Blink cameras and more

Shopping Black Friday sales doesn't have to drain your accounts. These electronics deals are each less than $50 and all are items Engadget recommends.

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Streaming costs getting you down? Good news! Black Friday's here to convince you to subscribe to *more* services!

Grab HBO Max (ad-supported) for a year at $36, Apple TV+ for 6 months at $36, or finally commit to a Plex lifetime pass for $150.

Are these deals actually saving you money, or just expanding your digital subscription graveyard?

#BlackFriday #StreamingDeals #TechHumor #SubscriptionFatigue #FrugalTech
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Best Black Friday streaming deals for 2025: One year of the Disney+ Hulu bundle for $60, plus save on Apple TV+, HBO Max and more

Save on these streaming subscriptions for a limited time for Black Friday.

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>So, while innovative individuals and communities around the world quietly get on with improving their lives and those around them, it’s high time the rest of us stopped being passive recipients of technology, and started asking ourselves what kind of world we want to live in and how to create it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation

#tech #frugalTech

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world

Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

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"You feel it, don’t you? They’re all crumbling, the platforms of the last decade. It’s unsettling, but/and also undeniably exciting. Tall trees fall in the forest, and light streams down, nourishing places it hasn’t reached in ages."
--https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83

(Spring 83: a sort of revisioning of WWW/RSS/finger for easily sharing and subscribing to small static federated html+css pages and reading them as we used to read the classified ads in newspapers or comics. #calmtech #frugaltech)

Specifying Spring '83

Protocol as investigation and critique.

Robin Sloan