Invested in 12V compatible desktop hardware. Solar powered, fanless and passively cooled.
Never enjoyed a super quiet work desk so much.
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#732Instant Pot. Can be used as a rice cooker, slow cooker, pressure cooker (mostly known for this last use) Though probably not as good for rice specifically as an actual high-end rice cooker, it greatly increased the range of foods I eat. Makes it easy to make nice one pot meals overnight for multiple days, you can make really good broth soups from chickens etc quickly, or slowly if you prefer. If you like to try tough…
My Instant Pot-branded Instant Pot is pretty much useless as a slow cooker. Unfortunately, I donated mine upon getting the Instant Pot before realizing this. Maybe newer models have fixed this but the three times I tried, had to end up pressure cooking as it never got warm enough, even on high, to slow cook.
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#733Jetbrains IDE
M5stack's line of ESP32 ucontrollers/peripherals
Stupid cheap mass storage
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#734Invested in 12V compatible desktop hardware. Solar powered, fanless and passively cooled. Never enjoyed a super quiet work desk so much.
Can you elaborate? What did you buy?
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#735A vacuum canister for oil changes. Just sucks the oil out of the dipstick tube. Great for environment and my back. Best $50 spent this year.
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#736Bread machine. Making bread with a mixer is fun but takes a lot of time. With the bread machine there really is no reason to buy preservative and sugar laden bread from the store.
Are these good these days? I LOVE bread and had bought several of first automatic bread makers in the 1990s. I really tried to use them but they really didn't produce good bread at all reliably. Curious if they work well now. Which one did you get?
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#737Blackout Curtains
These made a huge difference for my wife.
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#738A bidet. We got one with heated water and seats and going to the bathroom feels super luxurious now. Not to mention all the toilet paper we save and increased hygiene.
I've always wondered what people do with their wet butt after using the bidet... dry with a towel, smaller amount of toilet paper... what's the norm?
A little paper.
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#739Space heater, 20 bucks. In the past I chose to heat the bedroom a little on cold days and otherwise suck it up and dress while shivering (no point burning a ton of gas to heat an entire bedroom). Now, I use 1.5 kW for ~3 minutes (0.01 kWh) to have hot air be blown on me while getting dressed in the morning. Because it changes how warm I feel while going downstairs, I also don't need downstairs to be as warm to get wa…
Your math is off by a lot. 1.5 kW for 3 minutes is 0.075 kWh.
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