Topic: Review – Ctrl blog

Review: Samsung Galaxy Fit2 – a passive health and activity tracker

2021-11-06T15:56:00Z

The Samsung Galaxy Fit2 (not to be confused with the Gear Fit2) packs an impressive set of features like a sleep and heart rate monitor, in a small and budget-friendly package. However, it doesn’t help that it has a continuous activity, sleep, and heart rate/stress monitor when it doesn’t remind you to keep it charged.

Timberborn: a cute beaver colony sim with an unrewarding late game

2021-10-18T11:48:00Z

I love colony simulation games like RimWorld, Patron, and Surviving Mars; and I’ve sunk way too many hours into these games. My latest obsession is Timberborn — a vertical city builder inhabited by intelligent beavers that have inherited the Earth after humans are long gone.

Review of the MikroTik hEX (3rd rev.) as a home router

2021-08-10T13:28:00Z

The MikroTik hEX (RB750Gr3) (available on Amazon) is an inexpensive Gigabit router with advanced capabilities. I’ve used it as my home router for the last five years. It’s not a consumer-grade product, and it certainly isn’t your grandma’s router!

Review of Logitech K835 tenkeyless mechanical keyboard

2021-06-17T14:42:00Z

Logitech has set out to prove that mechanical keyboards aren’t just for gamers with too much disposable income and an unhealthy obsession for blinking lights! The Logitech K835 is a tenkeyless (TKL, meaning a regularly sized keyboard without the numpad) mechanical budget keyboard. It has an open-body design built on an aluminum plate on a plastic shell featuring either TTC tactile (“blue”) or TTC linear (“red”) key switches.

A technical and privacy review of Cloudflare Web Analytics

2020-12-16T09:21:00Z

Last week, Cloudflare announced its new Web Analytics service: a cost-free stand-alone product for counting website visitors. In its announcement, Cloudflare promised that its new service puts privacy first, doesn’t collect any personal information, and doesn’t use persistent tracking such as cookies.