My upgraded PC setup. I can now do bigger and better things.
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
881–890 of 1001 posts
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#882I 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 - !
Early in the pandemic, I built a mouse jiggler for my roommate for a similar reason: https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/mouse-jiggler/
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#883A high quality bit:
https://theperfectbit.com/product/1-perfect-bit/
did wonders!
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#884Smart Light Bulbs. As much as I dislike the inability to host the bulbs locally, it has done wonders for my sleep. I set them to slowly dim over a 45 minute period at night and slowly turn on over a 45 minute period in the morning. I have consistently gotten 8+ hours of amazing sleep and fall asleep + wake up so much easier now than I ever have before.
> As much as I dislike the inability to host the bulbs locally
Have you checked DigiblurDIY's Youtube channel, Discord server and subreddit? Some of these can run alternative firmwares like Tasmota, OpenBeken or ESPHome.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#885CO2 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.
I recently bought one expecting to see something interesting and it mostly just stays stable all day, even with the door closed. Maybe my house has good ventilation.
Stays stable at 400ppm or 1500ppm?
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#886A wheatbuck pillow. Like 50 bucks, keeps it's shape, keeps it's chills (regular pillows come stoves to me), keeps my head straight without folding a pillow in 4, keeps some support of my head why I tuck my arm under so I don't put much pressure on my shoulder. Been travelling for 3 months and carrying it, makes every bed a good bed.
"Buckwheat", I think?
It's common to make meditation cushions out of buckwheat hulls now, they're the perfect mix of firmness and formability.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#887CO2 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.
CO2 fatigue is a thing. At a company I used to work for we started wonder why one meeting room got especially rowdy if we had our 2 hour team meeting there. Had the building management install a CO2 sensor, it got up to 1500ppm. We were practically drunk in there. Turned out it wasn't meant as a meeting room at all and it had zero ventilation ducts - they were all in the room next door, they had just slapped a wall t…
1500ppm isn't great, but "drunk" is hyperbole.
It might make you feel different - and maybe not great for being productive, but it would be hard to notice.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#888Samsung T5 SSD, a short USB c cable, and a sticker pocket to attach it to my 2016 MacBook. Why get gouged by apple on storage when you can just duct tape an SSD to your laptop?
Heck yeah. I do this too. I honestly like the slightly nerdy frankenstein look. sticker pocket Can you recommend a sticker pocket? I looked, and I'm not sure which ones might be suitable for holding a hard drive to a laptop. What I've always done is: a clear acrylic ~$15 shell for the MacBook. Which is something I do anyway. And then I velcro-tape the drive to that shell.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2R8CPWH?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2R8CPWH?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_...
It's kinda funny that you can buy a 256 GB SSD for less than the price of this sticker-pocket, usb cable combo. My Macbook has a 256 GB internal SSD that can barely handle installing both the OS and XCode at the same time!
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#889CO2 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.
CO2 in atmosphere: 0.04%. What sort of levels is it inside? Isn't it inert? (hence the problem of global warming)
It is inert -- but your brain prefers oxygen to CO2, despite oxygen being far from inert.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#890A keypad door lock. Knowing the door is always (automatically) locked, being able to leave the house without a key, and being able to let someone else when I'm not there either with my phone, or by giving them a code.. I'm living in the future.
I have an NFC dot on the doorframe and unlock my door by holding my phone up to it. It's definitely slower than using the keypad, and probably slower than getting out a key, but it's way more satisfying than either.