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
> - boczek
consider upgrading to słonina in '24
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
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#62CO2 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.
Airthings, expensive but just does the job perfectly.
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#63Aftershokz Aeropex bone-conducting headphones. I could walk, hike, drive listening to music or phone calls while hearing the environment around me and without exposing anyone else to my taste in music :)
don’t you achieve basically the same thing with airpods’ transparency mode?
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#64Instant pot (rebuy with air fryer lid). Use this thing for everything. The air fryer lid is amazing. So much better than my stand alone air fryer which I got rid of. Much quieter. Takes up same space as the air fryer that I had before, but with much more functions! I don't do many fancy recipes in it, but makes cooking rice, chicken, yogurt or anything else simple fast and efficient. I live in the Eurozone so heating up the oven can be expensive. Pressure cooking a chicken in 10 minutes I believe is much more economical.
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#65- 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.
If you need to dry stuff really quick, get a little cheap desk fan of the kind sold in warm summers and point that to the wet stuff. I use it to dry out my children's boots.
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#66CO2 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.
Senseair S8 paired with ESP-32 has served me well over the past 3 years, but they have to be exposed to outside air at least once a week or so. Otherwise they quickly lose their zero point and start reporting thousands of PPM as mere hundreds.
I think other models with auto-recalibration also suffer from this (including MH-Z19). It's probably not a problem for you, but if you too live in an extremely polluted area and have to keep your windows shut for weeks at a time, it might be.
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#67Stream deck was a surprisingly good buy for me as well, although in 2020. Previously I had a keyboard with a lot of macro keys, but that died and I didn't want to go without the handy shortcuts I've set up. Now I'm using the stream deck for much more than what my keyboard offered. In terms of best buy in 2022 was the Peak Design Capture Camera Clip. For a photographer it's amazing to not have the weight of the camera…
> Previously I had a keyboard with a lot of macro keys […] Now I'm using the stream deck for much more than what my keyboard offered. Would like to hear more details about what you and OP and others use the stream deck for. I’m trying to understand what it can do that a regular keyboard plus macros couldn’t. I guess convenience is also a big part of it.
It’s really just a dynamic macro pad in a really polished overall product platform. No more guessing what blank button does what.
The killer feature for me is that it can also be an output device with the right tweaks, so for my use case in triggering long running jobs, the icon on the appropriate button updates to indicate the job is in progress and then again when it completes.
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#68I 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!
I'm speechless on how simple this solution is
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#69A laptop stander.
Coupled with a keyboard and mouse.
I don't have space for a discrete monitor so i have to rely on the laptop for it.
Using it makes it upright to eye level, making my neck pain go away
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#70Burr coffee grinder! Enjoying my coffees a lot more