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Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Airpod Pro 2 They are basically bionic ears. Headphones, headset, earplugs, hearing protection, hearing aids, extendable ears, and more. Wish they could act as universal translators, but I suppose that's still yet to come.

Don't the Google headphones do universal translation in their range of headphones? I am sure apple can replicate if it is any good.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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1. Gymnastic rings - cheap, so simple yet so complicated. Magic ancient alien technology from the future (whatever that means) 2. Anki - free, you remember what you want to remember, but you have to RTFM to use it properly. 3. Wax earplugs - cheap. My sleep quality is at least 2x better since using them. 4. Org-mode - free.

What is org-mode?

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- all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. - clothes drying racks that hook onto radiators. Reduces drying time and clothes crumpling - wired mechanical keyboard. Wired is simpler than wireless. Quality ones have n-key support - bicycle fenders - digital wrist watch so that I check my phone less.

> - all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. Relatedly, replacing all of my cotton socks with wool socks.

I spent like 200 bucks on several pairs the same color smartwool socks and got rid of most of my cotton socks. One of the best decisions I have made.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Airpod Pro 2 They are basically bionic ears. Headphones, headset, earplugs, hearing protection, hearing aids, extendable ears, and more. Wish they could act as universal translators, but I suppose that's still yet to come.

Isn’t there an ongoing investigation regarding an influx of tinnitus related to the ANC feature?

I haven’t heard that, but I’m curious to learn more since I use ANC a lot and would like to protect my hearing! Do you think the noice cancellation causes the tinnitus, or do people suddenly realize the ringing when the silence makes it more noticeable?

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Sodastream. Has significantly increased the amount of water i drink and conversely decreased other crap being drunk High end ricecooker ended up getting more use than expected. USB KVM style switch to change mouse/kyb over between work and personal device

do you mind sharing which KVM worked well for you? I also keep switching frequently and looking for something similar

KVM is a bit of a lie since I'm not switching monitor (both plugged in & switching via OSD).

But for toggling over usb stuff this works fine and is cheap

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07S5H6T18

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Airpod Pro 2 They are basically bionic ears. Headphones, headset, earplugs, hearing protection, hearing aids, extendable ears, and more. Wish they could act as universal translators, but I suppose that's still yet to come.

Isn’t there an ongoing investigation regarding an influx of tinnitus related to the ANC feature?

Not that I could find any news about. Someone did sue Apple back in May about hearing damage caused by an amber alert, but I can't see any progress on that since then -- and "someone has sued" is pretty weak evidence of anything, in the US legal system.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/apple-airpods-pro-lawsuit-amber-ale...

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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If you control 2-3 computers next to each other, I recommend the Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3s. I can control multiple computers and switch between them by holding ctrl and bringing my mouse to the edge of a screen. It then jumps to the other computer seamlessly. Now my desk is clutter free of multiple mice and keyboards.

did you try this tool "Mouse Without Borders" from Microsoft Garage[0]? seems to work well for my modest needs. you can either make the mouse move between screens using Ctrl or another key or make it freely roam ...without borders allows drag and drop of files, shared clipboard etc [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=354...

My computers are cross platform. So I needed a solution for mac+windows.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Kagi search engine subscription is easily my top choice ( https://kagi.com ). I'm really glad something can finally, truly replace Google search and be just as good or better (neither Bing nor DuckDuckGo were good enough when I tried them). If we're talking physical products, I'd probably go with the Apple Magsafe wallet. It's a little thing but I love not having a separate wallet to keep track of every day.

> DuckDuckGo were good enough when I tried them I'm curious as to where it lacked. DDG works more than well enough for me, but I'm wondering what other people search for where it is not.

I often search for an error message from software, get nothing useful from DDG, then add the "!g" and find exactly my problem.
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