How to Buy Someone a Technology Related Gift

If you only ever take one piece of advice from me seriously, make it this one. Don’t splurge on expensive HDMI cables. HDMI uses a digital signal, and the thing about digital signals is they either get through clearly enough to be read, or they don’t. Back in the analog days there was sometimes some advantage to buying big, thick, heavy duty cables with gold-plated connectors, but that’s not the case anymore. Don’t buy the cheapest thing in the world either, and sure, there are some edge cases where some specialty cable is needed, but for most uses, by most people, Amazon Basics cables or something from monoprice.com are all you need.

That concludes my useful advice. The usual ill-advised nonsense will commence immediately.

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