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My Aeropress coffee maker. It feels more convenient than a french press, and much cheaper than an espresso machine. https://aeropress.com/ Also a bidet. Americans really need to start using it more.
BitTorrent is amazing. It just works. Anyone anywhere can create a torrent of their files, dump the magnet link somewhere, and everyone else can reliably retrieve it. It is self-reinforcing; the more people using a torrent, the better the robustness, redundancy and download speeds. You can often get better speeds from downloading something via torrent than from a web server. It's an open protocol that is relatively e…
I'd add uTorrent... it was created in few kb and AFAIK that started the no-bloatware awareness for sometime.
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It doesn’t work on mobile at all.
It works perfectly fine on mobile.
It will only talk to Swiss people but we have an app called Fairtiq that makes taking a ticket for public transport super easy. You basically swipe in when you enter the bus/train/boat and swipe out when you arrived at your destination. It can be many changes or hours later and the right tickets are bought for you behind the scene. On the topic of transportation, the official app for the Swiss transports (SBB CFF FFS…
Like you say, a joy to use!
some random things without thinking too much: - my regular Bialetti moka - my texas instruments ti-86 (still rocking strong since 1997) - thinkpads: T42, X220, w530, T440... they're just great. - my wenger/swissgear carbon backpack EDIT: actually my regular bialetti moka is replacing an induction moka (still from bialetti) because the induction moka is hard to open (due to the round base).
T440 had abysmally bad screens
Oxo's old style ice cream spade (apparently discontinued?) https://www.surlatable.com/oxo-ice-cream-spade/PRO-208926.ht... Solves all the problems with an ice cream scoop. Critically, this version had a rounded front. They seem to have moved to a straight front, which I can't imagine being as effective? 40s/50s Gillette Super Speed https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/wiki/Gillette_40s_Style... Shaving was a cheaply…
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/11/human-centered-prod...
ZFS. Complete research companies unknowingly depend on the utmost reliability and flexibility ZFS has to offer. Started right with the first version included in FreeBSD in production use and never failed once while being the central storage connected to multiple HPC clusters with millions upon millions of rather small but also some vary large files. While offering five nines of uptime we even had to ability to send e…
Last year I picked up a HP Jornada 720 from Ebay out of curiosity. Considering its from the year 2000 it's impressive how much it can do. The build quality is sturdy, the keyboard is amazing and the OS feels more snappy than most of my current setups. I wish they would do a reboot with better screen and wifi. I'm not sure if it's "the best-designed" thing I have ever used, but it impressed me.
This may be a normie response - but Apple Airpods Pro are one of the best products I've used. After years of using several bluetooth headsets that get finicky (with connections that is), having a set that just connects and works every single time is refreshing. They really changed my behavior - I went from not liking phone conversations at all (getting agitated after a few minutes)to comfortably having long phone cal…
I am really looking forward to trying them out. So far I have $40 NoName true-wireless headphones [1] and Sennheiser over-ear ANC headpones (MB660). I really like those $40 headphones, but sadly they last for 4-5 hours only and I reach that limit a few times per week. But since the true wireless headphones feel very different to the over-ear headphones, I decided to buy another pair and wanted to try out some high quality ANC in-ear headphones.
Given the factor 5 price difference and the fact that I am quite happy with my current headphones, I am very interested how the Apple AirPods Pro will perform.
[1] HolyHigh BE1018. They look exactly like these: https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B07XFMHQDP
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When I worked for squarespace, their beautiful new offices had glass conference room doors that swung one way, the other way, or slid on a track, depending on the room configuration. However every one of those doors had the same handle on both sides, giving you no clue as to which scenario this door was providing. You saw people pull/push the wrong way all the time, and then look up/to the side to see the hinges and…
It reminded me of my experience at a Japanese Onsen (hot spring) last week. While entering the Onsen, the sliding door is automated and slides to open on it’s own. While exiting, the automated sliding doesn’t work. It has handles with no indication of pull or push or slide. The design of handles suggest most probably pull. I kept trying to pull/push with no movement. Finally, realized I am supposed to use those handl…
See eg: https://youtu.be/MfQkeIf2IjA