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

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A keypad door lock. Knowing the door is always (automatically) locked, being able to leave the house without a key, and being able to let someone else when I'm not there either with my phone, or by giving them a code.. I'm living in the future.

I loved mine but it started eating batteries after a few months. I guess I should try other models.

We’ve got a Yale that goes year+ on a set of batteries

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

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I bought a trackball mouse. (Elecom Huge). I found that it ultimately ends up saving deskspace (since the device doesn't need space to move around). I found the device's size to be more comfortable for my hands than the small Logitech bluetooth mouse I was using.

Do you prefer large trackball over large trackpad? (like ones from apple) How is accuracy?

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A solid long desk. I didn't focus much on the standing desk stuff too much but instead zero'd in on desk length and depth. I feel like 55inch width is bare minimum at this point. If you pick the longer desks that have well designed shelves, or even some of the L-shaped stuff, you can tuck away laptops/desktops in such a way that your main surface work area is huge blank canvas. The space and lack of clutter is almost…

On the big desk front, I just found a solid wood dining table on Craigslist. 36x72" without plywood or veneers for $60. The depth is great for ergonomics and the length with me have some reference books and electronics without it seeming cluttered. Best desk I've had

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

#276

I have a bunch under £20… - programmable 6-key keyboard - 10-pack of reading glasses - mini tyre inflator - rubber ice cleats - low-alcohol beer - sukang sawsawan - boczek

What do you eat with your sukang sawsawan?

Any recommendations for low alc beers?

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

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I finally purchased a rice cooker. I enjoy rice a lot and it's heathier than pasta, plus it's kind of set it and forget it and you can prepare other food while it cooks. But the best part is that rice comes out perfect.

> it's heathier than pasta Would you care to expand on what this means?

Also curious about this, rice (atleast white rice) has a higher glycemic index than pasta.

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

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I work from home - with a 5 minute screensaver with complicated password required by corporate - USB MouseJiggler - https://www.amazon.com/Undetectable-Computer-Simulate-Moveme... Best - Purchase - Ever - !

Open Notepad/editor of your choice Place a 9V battery on the spacebar Go about what you want to do

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

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post #6

I work from home - with a 5 minute screensaver with complicated password required by corporate - USB MouseJiggler - https://www.amazon.com/Undetectable-Computer-Simulate-Moveme... Best - Purchase - Ever - !

This is my goto for the same reason, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caffeine-keep-awak...

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

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post #123

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.

It really bothers me that Kagi sample search is a canned response.

If you would carefully look at "Best headphones" example, the reddit result card shows '2 days ago', whereas the link it points to is 7 months old.

Similarly the Sennheiser headphones results card shows $379 on Amazon, when its actually $400 today.

No offenses to how well it works, but if I had to be sold to get a subscription, I would rather like to see a real-time example. A canned example FWIW could be a completely scripted search result.

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