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Like OP, Mi Robot Vacuum - My first vacuum cleaner and its something I have recommended to 10+ folks. An Apartment - A house that is my own, not my parent's place, but mine. A good chair to work from home - Steelcase Series
Are you renting or owning?
Cafelat Robot - a manual espresso maker (despite the name "robot", it's not electronic at all, it just uses pressure). It makes awesome shots, it's super easy to clean, and it's just really fun to feel the tactile feedback you can get when you're brewing a shot manually, because you can re-adjust your pressure on the fly to make the shot come out how you want it. My husband must have watched every James Hoffman video…
Got I hate my Cafelat Robot. I never use it. I feel like you really have to be a hobbyist coffee drinker to appreciate this thing... Not only did I need to buy a gazillion dollar grinder to get it to work, I almost always spill the water trying to jigger that pot thing into the bottom of it. Each to their own I suppose. :D
Futon, for sleeping on. Used to wake up in the middle of the night with agonising cramp in my back, it reduced it by maybe 95%. Granted a new good bed might have achieved the same but I don't think I'd ever go back to a bed at this point.
What futon? I found the same effect just by giving up spring beds. I now sleep on latex, but did the foam thing for a while (T&N used to have an 8" bed I loved).
Honestly, mostly I was just so fed up with my bed at the time I actually started sleeping on the floor with a duvet for padding. I chose that one because it would arrive the quickest at the time.
I got the idea from travelling, in Japan and staying with a friend in Thailand who just had this rubber/latex pad on the floor. Slept really well so I decided to give it a try at home.
I also bought an Elbit WP PVS-14 for my 30th birthday, and that'll go down as one of my favorite single purchases.
Light Dims! http://www.lightdims.com/index.php Little sticky cellophane pieces, that you can put on the little LED lights on all modern electronics, so that you can still see them but they're not so bright. Because I hate being surrounded by blinkenlights that are a bit too bright and hurt my eyes in the dark.
I mostly resort to poorly applied swatches of electrical tape (black) all over the place.
My current nemesis is the PS5 in "rest mode", bright orange/yellow glowing all the time!
A very basic but effective home gym: A barbell and 140kg of bumper plates, Squat/bench stands, bench, slam ball, dumbbells and a small range of kettlebells. The whole thing cost about the equivalent of a year's gym membership but have lasted two years so far and show no sign of wear. Being able to lift something heavy on a regular basis over the last year has been a massive boost for my mental and physical health. Yo…
I have Oticon Opn1 hearing aids and I always hated that I had to go to the Audiologist and have her tweak them, leave for a week or two and only then could I come back and have them readjusted. I get that sometimes you need to sit with a change for a while to get used to it, but sometimes you just know immediately whether something is working or not. OR, you just want to A/B test some things and the hassle of going back to the audi was too much. I realize now that I ended up living with hearing aids that were working sub par for many years.
I found that the software for programming the Oticon Opn's (among others) is free to use by anyone, however you need a device that will connect to them for programming. This is the Noahlink device. A couple of hundred bucks on Amazon and a few days of reading the documentation and I am off and running! I made several changes in quick succession and I can safely say that now I have them set to what they should have always been, years later. Where before I could only hear maybe 50% of what people were saying in a loud environment, I can now hear at least 75%. That may not seem like much, but it makes a huge difference! I now come home from a social event and I am not completely wiped out with exhaustion. One of the best purchases I have made in the last 10 years.
I've been improving my desk accessories since the COVID breakout. Aeron Chair + IKEA IDÅSEN electric standing desk. With perfect height combination finally, I don't feel shoulder pain when typing. Unlike most standing desks, IDÅSEN is not wobbly at all. A double-decker book stand. I sometimes get distracted when I use the computer so I started to spend more time on paper-based workflow. I have serious back pain when…
It always makes me chuckle inside when a company is too cheap to buy people proper stands for monitors and instead you see people use textbooks from the office reference library… and when you add up the cost of the actual books, it costs an order of magnitude more than the actual made for the purpose stand would cost. Computer networking and algorithms 4th alone already bring you in the 200$ territory if I’m not mistaken.
Not a dog at you in particular, just an observation.
Ass to grass.
- Samsung S6 Lite to digitize note taking.
Never thought I'd use so many colors and actually refer to the notes I've taken. For all you die-hard paper and pen fans out there I was one too, but it really is a game-changer!
- Sony WM1000xm3 headphones to easily enter flow state.
Before it would take me at least 30 minutes to get in the zone, now it's a matter of a few songs.
- Oura Ring to be more mindful of rest.
Observing my sleep score every morning made it easier to prioritize it.
The Samsung HW-Q950T soundbar with it's 9.1.4 channels of awesome sound. https://www.samsung.com/dk/audio-devices/soundbar/9-1-4-ch-s... It's far from a perfect product, eARC is broken on many TVs, rear speakers sometime turn off on their own. But when it works it sounds fantastic. I should also mention the Avforums where owners discuss this rather complex piece of hardware and how to get the most from it, that has b…
These systems look great, and I'm casually in the market. Wireless aux speakers + bluetooth connection for phones is basically what I'm looking for (on top of great sound obviously). Right now I have an older Vizio set which has served me well, and I've been checking out Sonos lately. Would the A be worth the extra $500? I'll use it for TV/movies via HDMI Arc, music via bluetooth (yes I know I shouldn't use BT), and…
I'd say it's worth the extra $500, you get two extra rear channels, built-in room correction (finally) and a Night Mode made for late night movies or listening to music.
And i think a discount should also be possible.
But you can always check out Avforums for more in-depth information.