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Amazon Prime Day is dominating headlines this week, and it's more than just a shopping event. Hardware prices for memory, storage, and graphics cards have climbed so steeply that analysts are pointing out prebuilt systems from Dell — some discounted by up to nine hundred dollars — now represent genuinely better value than building your own machine from scratch.
That same Prime Day sale is also shining a light on the wearables market, where the Amazfit Active Two is quietly making a strong case against far pricier rivals. Earning five stars in recent reviews, the watch is now available for under one hundred ten dollars in the US and one hundred five pounds in the UK — a price point that's drawing particular interest from users frustrated with changes to the Fitbit app.
And from the world of open source, a genuinely curious piece of software history is back. GIMP version zero point five four, the image editor's very first public release from nineteen ninety six, has been packaged as a Flatpak, meaning you can now run three decade old software on a modern Linux machine without hunting down ancient dependencies. It's a preservation story as much as a tech story.
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