ITEMS YOU DO NOT NEED

I packed up all my possessions after being divorced and had a fantasy list item called CANONICAL POSSESSIONS FOR TRAVEL. If you did a bit of maths at Uni, you know this is the optimal smallest lots of "stuff" that covers the essential requirements. So, you have bamboo underwear (these are great) and don't need too much attention - i.e. you can wear them a few times just like when you were a boy and your mum kept checking if you had fresh ones every day, but you just found the least smelly pair from the clothes basket (sorry Mum).

Anyway, I'm getting RID of useless stuff to hopefully come back to Brisbane and restart my life after my grand return-to-glory-days-in-London-plans were dashed by the Corona virus.

Number 1: Cheap copy of GoPro camera. Even GoPro might be not that good to be honest except if you want to film your bike rides or jumoping out of a plane. I've seen them mounted on car dashes in taxis (ok, one taxi).

WHY NO GOOD: No basic tripod attachment. There was a yellow float attachment for when you're floating in the water. You get a good bike attachment but that it is it. Also, when I used the camera it cut out after continuous filming with a white screen so probably limited battery life.

NUMBER 2: ALiexpress cheap projector

WHY NO GOOD: First the resolution is like VGA but the box says handles 4K. Well, it ACCEPTS 4k inputs and displays them as crap SVGA quality from 10 years ago. Also, it has a battery but the switch fell off when i set it to this mode. I complained to Ali and they said "ok, just keep it" and refunded me. Many of these devices were seconds and NEVER WORKED.


Number 3: Android box



WHY NO GOOD: They run android but can only handle usb thumb drives of limited size, so do no expect to attach a 3TB drive and start playing all your movies. Better to stream off a NAS or similar.