gave to mutual aid groups, went to local artists for gifts, shifted as many purchases as possible to local businesses
Ask HN: What did you buy this holiday season?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you buy this holiday season?
#12I’ve always been a user or the low profile and quiet Mac keyboard. I decided to try a machanical keyboard for the first time. I found one that was (supposedly) on the quiet side and low profile. Sure enough it went on sale. Well, I share an office with my wife. She listened to it for about 20 seconds before she strongly encouraged me to go back to the old keyboard.
What did you get? I went through five different keyboards before ending up with a Durgod Taurus K320 with silent red switches. It was recommended as a good shared-space mechanical keyboard, and I ended up liking it better than all my louder keyboards even when no one else is home.
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy this holiday season?
#13On a meta note, I bought a box cutter (a nicer-looking version with wooden handle) [1] so I can dispose of all the boxes we are getting these days.
And for opening boxes, I picked up one of these key/cutter tools. [2] It's plenty sharp for cutting the tape on boxes, but it's much safer than a box cutter, so other family members can use it. Each of them was about ten bucks.
1: https://www.amazon.com/WORKPRO-Folding-Utility-Handle-10-pie...
2: https://www.amazon.com/Nite-Ize-DoohicKey-Stainless-Attachme...
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy this holiday season?
#14I'll be giving people grow-your-own mushroom kits (lions mane and poplar)
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy this holiday season?
#15Our child is slowly getting the hang of telling the time, and understanding what hours/minutes mean so I've ordered a wall-clock for him so he can see the time in his bedroom. By coincidence I bought myself a new automatic watch, an old/"vintage" Soviet piece by Vostok. I collect mechanical watches and I'm looking forward to the time when I can buy the child his first watch - no doubt a casio/swatch or similar. No po…
My desktop PC is over 8 years old. Every 3-5 years seems pretty fast, unless maybe you are doing high-end gaming.