Airtags, saved my forgetful ass a couple of times and it makes locating things after parties much easier
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
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Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#52Merino wool T-shirts.
Cost about 30€ instead of previously used 3€ cotton T-shirts.
Can wear one for about 3 weeks without washing, with no body odor. Much more pleasant to the skin, even for doing sports, driving, etc. Also, warm in winter, airy in summer. Plan to switch most clothing to merino wool.
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#53A 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…
Big fan of big desks. I just moved down to a 57 inch desk. Fifteen years ago I needed a temporary desk solution and bought the cheapest bare wood door at Home Depot and laid it across two filing cabinets. That turned out to work great for the next fifteen years and I still kind of miss it (but it was time to upgrade the home office decor.)
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#54- 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.
A programmable keyboard is even better. Doesn't even need to be fully programmable via scripts, a simple macro functionality is usually enough.
I mapped arrow keys and Home/End to Fn+WASD/QE and code navigation is so much faster now, especially when I have a hand on the mouse.
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#55I 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 - !
my wife took my $5 timex watch and just put her mouse on the face of it. kinda blew my mind because her request was very out of left field. but it works!
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#56Under $200 would be:
- a monitor arm to free up desk space
- a Wacom tablet for virtual whiteboard diagrams
- a coffee warmer for my desk
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#57Torras Screen Protector for my phone. Saved me a huge ton of regret after a blurry night.
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#58- Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop (I've been a PS user since 5.5, but they creep me out)
- Capture One for ca 200 usd (same reason as above, but replace PS with Lightroom Classic)
- The Belkin iPhone grip for continuity camera (iPhone is so much better than the potato webcam on my MBA)
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#59Merino wool T-shirts. Cost about 30€ instead of previously used 3€ cotton T-shirts. Can wear one for about 3 weeks without washing, with no body odor. Much more pleasant to the skin, even for doing sports, driving, etc. Also, warm in winter, airy in summer. Plan to switch most clothing to merino wool.
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#60Toe spacers. I went from being in agony every time I stood up to being relatively pain free in my toe joints
Weird timing - I saw some on Amazon yesterday (clicked in to see if there was another three things I wanted in order to get 5% off ... but it was all bizarre tat, who wades through all that, or finds four useful things anyway, for 5%?) and wondered what on Earth they were for, I didn't realise this was/could be an issue - certainly not commonplace enough that there was a product for it anyway.