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Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022

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Re: Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022

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Powerful computer, good large monitor, quiet wireless mouse and keyboard. We spend so much time in front of a screen, but it’s easy to stay with old tech as it still work and do the same thing, but quality and speed matter. An improvement of a few percent pay for itself many times. Choosing the best with what you work with will push you to also be the best at what you do, it serve as a yardstick to measure your work.

>quiet wireless mouse and keyboard Which models did you buy? I am looking over 2 months now with unlimited budget and have no luck. Keyboard: * standard US layout * should be really quiet for my night sessions * available in EU Mouse: * big size * standard 3 buttons and wheel * quiet clicking and scrolling I have currently Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard (still working but worn out) and Logitech M330 (too small).

I just bought this and I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner.

The dept of the key is a bit too much (I am used to the mac keyboard) but both the keyboard and mouse it’s really quiet and smooth.

The mouse is quite small but has ergonomic shape.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B089KV4YYX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_...

Re: Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022

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I spent a few hundreds dollars lining 2/4 of my office’s walls with tabletops to make one huge L-shaped desk. Lovingly deemed “mega-desk,” it greatly improves my ability to work on multiple and/or large projects. It is also the envy of every WFH person or crafter who enters my house.

Well that's not feasible for me, but I have been meaning to upgrade to a larger desk (I'm still on the first one I ever owned - the cheapest one from Ikea). You've inspired me to do it. Just ordered a new one.

Hope you love it! One tip I have is to spend some time before it arrives donating/disposing of old desk clutter you don’t need anymore. That’ll allow you to take even better advantage of the new space.

Re: Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

can you elaborate on your current setup?

for sure! My grinder is a Weber EG-1. It has really large (80mm) flat burrs. Very forgiving; like I don't have to be dialed in perfectly for the espresso to be very good. It's essentially a cafe quality grinder, but optimized for a single-dose flow. My machine is an Olympia Cremina, which is a manual lever machine. I've modified it with a pressure profiler to control and track the pressure of the shot I'm pulling. Al…

Thank you! I appreciate your writeup, and that's an extremely sweet home setup.
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