A pair of Sennheiser Hd58x's from Drop. I never want to use ear buds again. Really loving the 'open back' experience, makes me feel less claustrophobic and the sound quality is amazing. Really enjoying just sitting around listening to music again.
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
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Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#682A one-hour shopping session with a personal stylist, at about $175. I desperately wanted to break out of my t-shirt/blue jeans habit, but parsing clothes sizes, trying things on, and getting opinions is equal parts sorcery and torture for me. (I'd tried Stitch Fix and felt like it wanted to reinforce my habits rather than break me out of them.) After sending her details about my problems and the kinds of styles I adm…
My wife is a stylist and does an online-only version of this (and other related services) over at https://estilistas.co.uk/ (hope no one minds the plug!)
I'm always surprised how often her clients come back multiple times per year. She's had quite a few from the US and Canada too. She caters for men & women
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#683Meta comment, but I'm curious about the money range of $200-$1000. Many threads like this are for cheaper products (granted, upper limit here of $200 is higher than usual), and a lot of the answers are repeated. I feel it's hard to justify spending larger amounts of money in the range I provided, but in the end, there are times when the value absolutely is worth it. Finding those times is the difficult part.
Ask! For me, I got 2 months of personal training for about that much (2 one-hour-sessions per week).
I was hesitant because I thought personal training was too expensive given that there were so many resources online, but I’m VERY happy with the purchase.
It forced me into the gym regularly for months, I didn’t have to think about what I’d be working out, and my trainer kept me honest, kickstarting a habit and confidence I’ve tried countless times to develop.
Of course, YMMV and some trainers are terrible, but I would have happily spent much more.
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#684Sodastream. Has significantly increased the amount of water i drink and conversely decreased other crap being drunk High end ricecooker ended up getting more use than expected. USB KVM style switch to change mouse/kyb over between work and personal device
I use a USB switch to swap mouse/keyboard/webcam, but I switch my main monitor between two inputs manually because if I use a monitor switch, then once I swap it to my work computer, Windows detects the monitor is gone and moves all my windows to the second monitor (Which is also a different resolution and has different scaling, so they also all get resized) which is a pain in the ass.
I know you can get so-called "active" switches that tell both host computers that there's still a monitor plugged in, but they're expensive, especially if you use a monitor higher than 1080p. I'm not even sure once exists that will support 1440p @ 144 hz with GSync.
However, I haven't looked for KVM switches in almost two years. Has this situation changed? Is there a KVM switch that will tell the host machines that there's still a monitor hooked up when I switch it to the other machine that will support my resolution and refresh?
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#685Ordering frozen croissants online. Before going to bed you leave one in the oven. Wake up, turn oven on, hit the shower. When you come out, it's ready to eat = cafe experience at home, coffee and a croissant while checking the news.
Same, but with an air-fryer it's just 10 minutes from frozen to done, so I usually pick them from the fridge, put them in the airfryer, boil some tea-water, and then have tea and croisants for breakfast in 10 minutes.
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#686Kagi 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.
Anyone here use Kagi and Neeva for a similar amount of time? If so, thoughts on comparison?
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#687An air fryer. It’s really a badly marketed product. Its real utility isn’t that it uses less oil, but that it cooks incredibly fast. Essentially an oven on steroids. It’s made cooking so much easier. I usually toss some boneless chicken in with a light coating of soy sauce and cornflour. While the chicken cooks, I prep a basic Asian sauce on the stovetop. The chicken and the sauce are both done within 10-15 minutes.…
The "air fryer" marketing is actually quite good. It justified a whole new class of countertop appliance, even though many already have convection ovens.
And if you've had frozen fried foods like mozz sticks, chicken nuggets or eggrolls in an air fryer, it really does live up to the name
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#688I gave up on flaky WiFi mesh networking and connected the APs to my home's inactive cable wiring using MoCA adapters. Local bandwidth increased 4x, and I was able to achieve solid coverage throughout the house. I also replaced a rock, a brick, and a rubber wedge with magnetic door holders, each about $5. Now when we're bringing in the groceries, we can keep the door open without the rock, and it's easy to close when…
Which mesh routing system did u have that was flaky? I just closed on a home and have been thinking about going mesh. Ideally would like most stuff hardwired but I’m being lazy
Google WiFi (not the Nest ones with the built-in microphones). They're fine for most cases, but every so often I'd discover that one had gotten voted off the island, causing the remaining two in the mesh to deliver a weak signal to some of the house.
Another problem with mesh networks in general is that they're very sensitive to placement, because they need to be able to see each other (in an RF sense, not visually) to form the backhaul. It adds an additional constraint on your physical topology beyond the regular one of wanting to use the laptop on the couch and in the kitchen. So you end up moving the mesh nodes to corners of the room where you didn't really want them to be, aesthetically. At a certain point you ask yourself whether it would have been easier to run the damn cable through the ceiling than to play musical chairs every few weeks.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#689An air fryer. It’s really a badly marketed product. Its real utility isn’t that it uses less oil, but that it cooks incredibly fast. Essentially an oven on steroids. It’s made cooking so much easier. I usually toss some boneless chicken in with a light coating of soy sauce and cornflour. While the chicken cooks, I prep a basic Asian sauce on the stovetop. The chicken and the sauce are both done within 10-15 minutes.…
How does an air fryer compare to a speed oven? I want to remodel my kitchen someday with a speed oven (convection microwave) over top a steam convection oven (for cooking things with steam without pressure). I'm not sure what I would be missing without an air fryer (and none of those are less than $2-3k, so the price ranges are completely different).
If you're looking to do speed oven stuff (use the heating elements and the microwave to cook the same dish), don't get a Bosch. I have the Bosch 800 speed oven and while it's convenient to have a single appliance that acts as an oven and microwave, you can only use the speed oven for pre-programmed dishes, of which I think there are eight seemingly random ones.
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#690I bought a Keychron keyboard as others have mentioned. On the $300 end though I got a walking treadmill for my standing desk. It is changing my life. I'm about 2 weeks in and usually avg 5.5 miles a day. Words per minute is still 80 and accuracy hasn't suffered. Worked my way upto 2.6mph. I had to set the office temperature to 66 degrees F though. Worked up a sweat :)
Is it quiet enough for the office? I have my own office at work, but sound travels a bit.