My history in gadgets - update 2020

June 26, 2020 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2019 bis updates:

Phone history:

I upgraded from the OnePlus 6 (which is going to my girlfriend) and got the

OnePlus 8 Pro

through my employer at a nice discounted rate.

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Disabling Home Assistant fallback DNS

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