AirPods Pro 3 are looming on the horizon—sure, they’ll probably come loaded with new tricks and marginally better sound. Great. Wonderful. But let’s be honest for a second: do you really care?

Especially when you can snag the V2 for $150 and call it a day? That’s exactly what I did. Pulled the trigger on the V2 and never looked back. Sometimes the smart move isn’t the newest option—it’s the one that doesn’t mug your wallet while still getting the job done like a champ.

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Finally. Ricoh has unleashed the GR IV—a long-awaited evolution in a bloodline of pocket cameras that’s been killing it since the goddamn film days.

If you’ve never tangled with the GR series, know this: it’s the street shooter’s secret weapon. Compact, fast, and absurdly sharp. Now, with the IV, things get even meaner—onboard memory, snappier autofocus, improved Wi-Fi, and a brand-new lens to tie it all together.

This isn’t just an update—it’s a refined instrument of photographic mayhem.

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NuPhy makes keyboards… and they are probably most known for their compact iPad solutions. Today, they announced the Air75 – another iPad centric 75% keyboard that a lot of people are apparently really excited about.

Details here.

My photo archive has ballooned into something obscene—thousands of shots, terabytes of chaos—so I had to expand the digital warehouse. And because I edit directly off these drives in Lightroom, they can’t be lazy. I need speed. Responsiveness. No stuttering, no spinning beach balls of death.

Thunderbolt 5 just landed, but my Mac doesn’t give a damn—and neither does my wallet. So Thunderbolt 4 it is. For the enclosure, I went with the OWC Express 1M2. Fanless, whisper-quiet, and blessedly cool. I suspect the chunkier form factor and all those heat-dissipating fins are doing God’s work. $90 well spent.

As for the drive, sure, everyone drools over the Samsung 990 Pro—but I’m not made of gold and bourbon. I pocketed the extra $50 and grabbed the 990 Evo Plus instead. 4TB for $250.

The result? I’m clocking over 3000MB/s for under $400. That’s a hell of a deal, boys. Run it till it melts.