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Hercules 500 mixer and an Omni turntable. Been flogging myself as a one man band MSP the last 2 years. Got this for a self bday prez last year. Been using it to wind down and have some hangouts w my stepkids. Music is great for breaking barriers and DJing im finding is a way to keep kids in touch w music as their peers fall out of the early childhood learn X instrument phase.
Simple stuff but huge returns. Next up is plumbing in and getting a dishwasher.
I'm not the only person saying this: getting an espresso machine was the biggest QoL improvement from one purchase I've ever had. Although you do have to enjoy and be excited about manually making espresso. For me I specifically wanted to go through the process (grinding, tamping, etc) since being able to vary the result, pick the coffee, etc is part of the enjoyment, so a machine that uses Nespresso pods or the like…
Go check out https://gaggiuino.github.io/#/ if your into tinkering.
Your gaggia is about 250 to 300 bucks away from walking all over $3k+ machines. :)
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I seriously recommend it. I put mine over my roadcrafter, and i stopped noticing that i was wearing it within 10 miles. Now "clip in!" is a reflex just like "buckle up!" is in the car.
Which one did you go for?
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Which one did you go for?
I went with Helite for a few reasons: 1) I trust the tether a lot more than someone else's (or my own for that matter) software 2) No battery to forget to charge 3) Uses cheap CO2 canisters making it and easy to re-arm. Many airbags have to be sent back to the manufacturer after a deployment and are quite expensive to re-arm.
Ubiquiti Dream Router and a couple of WiFi 6 Access Points. Excellent WiFi is so underrated and not as common as we might think. It has allowed me to work comfortably in all corners of the house as well as outside when the weather is nice, all without skipping a beat during calls. Highly recommend setting up a proper WiFi network and looking into this more prosumer level hardware which has been rock-solid for me.
[1] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-unifi-os-cons...
Honestly a good espresso machine. Obviously it's not the best of the best, I'm not a coffee snob/expert, but spending $800 on a mid-tier breville espresso machine is miles ahead of the $100 espresso machine I tried a couple years ago. It's just so much more convenient to be able to make a decent tasting hot or iced latte at home vs. going to get one. Maybe some day I will really get into espresso and get $3000 machin…
https://gaggiuino.github.io/#/
Spent a few months fixated on coffee machines. Went deep. Gaggiuino give you equivalent machine value of $3k machine for under $1k aud.
Coffee is ripe for disruption on a hardware end of town. So much over priced 30-50 year old tech w/ at most a pid or Arduino/esp level of grunt computer behind it. It's absurd.
I spent ~$2700 on a new mattress. I no longer wake up with hip or lower back pain. My sleeps are an order of magnitude better. I ended up with a Tempurpedic. I spent about 2 hours trying every mattress at the store and bought the one that felt best. There’s probably a million hacks to get that mattress cheaper, but I regret nothing. One of the best purchases I’ve ever made. It also came with 2 “free” memory foam pill…
Ubiquiti Dream Router and a couple of WiFi 6 Access Points. Excellent WiFi is so underrated and not as common as we might think. It has allowed me to work comfortably in all corners of the house as well as outside when the weather is nice, all without skipping a beat during calls. Highly recommend setting up a proper WiFi network and looking into this more prosumer level hardware which has been rock-solid for me.