Dave, you got to go start looking around fairly soon anyway .....
ANY electronic technology you have held for over 5 years is going to be verging on "out of date" and has likely been replaced by something that is "better" and more modern. Plus, 4G and 5G is becoming more and more compelling as we speak for value for dollar spent.
Here is what is coming new for this year -- 5G wireless service from all the players, functionally faster than your existing internet (yes, faster than even that optical laser expensive stuff that nobody could afford when it was hot 2 years ago) with
all of the cell phone players and the NVOs making 5G services available, competing hard for the new business in all ways possible.
Your cable companies really do not compete at all, being "rate set" by the .gov agencies that monitor and control them.
When 5G lights up in your area, then the old 4G plans (perfectly good for streaming TV and the internet) will become the new bargain basement stuff, with suitable price deals out there for you to find.
The old 3G service will now become throw away cheap, but you can still stream 720p movies on low end 3G speeds (using standard buffering tricks).
Android cell phones can now throw anything you can see on the phone screen up on your TV screen using a ChromeCast device ($50 at Walmart) and Apple phones have similar things available to them through the Apple store. Likely your existing phone can do the duty that you are after, or a wifi router driven Roku box ($80 at Walmart) certainly can do it, absolutely certainly. But you gotta start counting out your total bill for both phones and TV viewing and considering that total as the nut you are trying to crack ......
It depends on what is cheaper (assuming both are available to you) --- an unlimited data plan on your phone or a cheap wifi off your internet service combined with a cheap limited phone plan from a cellular provider.
Remember, you have to buy the phone service for your phones anyway and the "unlimited data" might be cheaper than another complete form of internet service (like internet service, wifi router & the Roku wifi box ......) Remember,
if you can manage to get rid of an entire service while saving money on what remains, that is the best possible outcome.
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Why it is better to actually spend some time looking and getting familiar with the tech and the terms before you need to actually go buy something .....Pre-thought makes for better choices on your part. Example, I could use a open end die wrench to loosen reloading dies when changing them. A cheap stamped sheet metal 1 1/16" die nut wrench from Hornady costs $16-$20 plus shipping (a real rip-off).
Some thought spent on it said 29mm stamped sheet steel metric wrenches would engage and turn the die nuts just fine, but could be awkward on my 3 die and 4 die turret Lee Progressive machines because of the very close spacing. Hornady makes a cheap sheet metal socket that costs too much, and a normal deep well socket is too large and too thick walled to fit the in between spaces on the four die turrets.
But metric stuff is always cheaper than inch stuff (and is getting more so as the years go by).So I began watching Amazon and Ebay for 29mm combination wrenches and sockets, expecting a low cost wrench or deep thin wall socket to be ~ $14-16 ~ if one became available used.
Amazon popped this one up for one day only -- $8.95 with free 2 day shipping. Why, I dunno .... but it came today, looking good as it is brand new in the hanger display packaging ready to go up on the sales floor display hanger.
SAE standard dimensions, drop forged tool steel, all properly polished and hard chrome plated. Good stuff, in other words
The wrench is of a sizable length as you can see and it rests on the "Y" leg bracket under my computer table like it was built on purpose to stay there permanently, being all "always on hand" and always "right handy for use". The box end will go over my largest dies and turn the big lock nut to either tighten or loosen them just fine, and the 12 point box end system means I can engage a die nut on any of my turret positions from either side of the press as needed.
Ditto for the open end, but it isn't as nifty to use as you still have to aim it properly and then fight the neighboring turrets for enough turn room -- the box end always just drops over die and the nut and seats itself, and then jest a little bit of 12 point turn action breaks the die nut loose good enough for finger turned die removal/installation.
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