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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 - !

Same except I used to avoid my employer detecting me going AFK

-- your employer can know this? - why they want to - you are paid by the minute? - never heard of a company monitoring this --

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

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post #3

A keychain that acts as a coin to unlock shopping carts. A retractable USB-C to C cable for my backpack. Replacement keys for my butterfly keyboard MacBook. It’s a drop in replacement that delays a new laptop purchase. Warm wool socks and sweaters Paperlike screen protector and metal nib for my iPad mini and Apple Pencil A 3 meter long USB-C to C cable

> A keychain that acts as a coin to unlock shopping carts.

That's a concern of mine. Once we go all cashless, how will we unlock the shopping carts? Here it's currently being debated if stores should be allowed to reject cash, I think someone forgot about the carts.

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

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post #29

CO2 sensors for every room in my apartment. Before monitoring the CO2 levels I did not realize the relation of tiredness, mental fatigue and high CO2 levels.

Which ones did you get? I've been thinking along similar lines recently, but they are somewhat expensive and it's hard to say which ones are even legit.

So far the MH-Z19 modules are on the top of my list for pairing with an ESP or something and logging data to NAS but I've yet to order any.

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 - !

I was worried that would be detectable so I programmed the onboard memory of my Logitech mouse to jiggle itself.

You can also put your mouse on a rough surface like I do. Optical mice are natural-born jigglers (my "stuff HN says" candidate).

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

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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.

I simply stopped pairing socks 30 years ago. I have experienced no ill effects wearing unmatched socks.
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