A 20 meter lan cable which I bought it for less than 10$. I have now much more stable connection.
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
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#942I pay 135 bucks a month for access to a co-working space. It’s got amenities such as unlimited coffee, call booth, ping pong table, gaming console, etc. Not to mention an environment of friendly people (mostly contractors) who want to be just as productive as you. Working from “home” and on side-projects has become a breeze this way.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#943I bought a 30x magnifying glass with LED lighting for $16 on Amazon. I didn't know I needed it but I now use it daily. I find the magnifier super handy to grab for reading tiny print on things like USB chargers. My reading glasses don't help in such cases even if I happen to be wearing them. I have 40x one too put it's more like jeweler's loupe with a very short focal length so less useful on a day to day basis.
I got a pair of magnifying glasses with an LED - the kind that dermatologists use. It's great for taking splinters out of little kid fingers.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#944I 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 - !
I open a PowerPoint and put it in screenshow mode. this usually keeps the laptop from going to lock screen bonus: press B to blackout the screenshow to avoid monitor burn-in
It does, but it doesn't stop Teams from changing my status to 'away'
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#945A rice cooker. I was sceptical for a long time, because we can just cook rice in a normal pot? But the result tastes a lot nicer and feels surprisingly more convenient, and keeping rice warm for longer periods is also handy. As a result we eat a lot more rice (and are less tempted to just order in when we're feeling lazy). Also, a Hario V60 + Fellow Stagg EKG Kettle, really upped my coffee game. Though if you include…
Which brand/model would you recommend?
We got this one https://www.lakeland.co.uk/62569/lakeland-2-portion-mini-ele...
Which was fairly cheap and, crucially, small (we have a tiny kitchen). No complaints about it, though I'm sure there are better ones out there.
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#946We set up a motorized curtain in our bedroom. It's been really nice to black everything out at night while sleeping (some of our neighbors leave outdoor lights on) but in the morning, wake up with natural light
Significantly more than $200, but we had motorized external screens & shutters put on the bedroom windows. I flashed Tasmota onto some cheap Sonoff modules to control the motors and integrated via MQTT into Homebridge so we can easily set schedules or ask Siri to put the shades up or down. We're sleeping so much better with the room mostly blacked out (we also have rear neighbors with bright lights, and cats that roa…
Which shades did you get? Looking hard at these - love sleeping in a blacked out room.
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#947An 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.…
> It’s really a badly marketed product. I think the marketing is really smart. It's positioned as a new category of product. Oven on steroids won't sell because people already own ovens. It has to be a distinct appliance otherwise it's competing against a full sized oven. That's not the comparison you want a consumer to make.
Convection ovens have been around a long time too. Some have even started labeling certain cook modes as "air fry".
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#948A bit more than $200- An Oura ring. Some quantitative insight around sleep, heart rate, heart rate variation, temperature, etc. SUPER interesting to see how things change when sick, drink alcohol, etc. Also- I confess to not minding the tone/language the product uses for coaching purposes. It is not an asshole. Relatedly, tracking food/calories/water consumption in the (free- no need to pay them) Noom app has been us…
I bought Oura a couple of years ago because it's a ring that runs Linux and gives you some insight into your life. Well, it does run Linux, but the rest - not so much. Did side by side tests with another sleep tracker and Oura was pulling its data seemingly out of its ass. Completely random stuff. After seeing that all other data it reported didn't instill much confidence either, nor did it correspond to what I was a…
Yeah, I have definitely seen an evolution, shall we say, in their modeling and data aggregation and smoothing. Oura is doing a public "beta" of a new sleep model now and it is VERY different! But much better. So it goes.
There are also inherent power limitations in the ring form factor compared to the watch, which impact data granularity. If you want to be monitoring apnea you really need seconds level resolution, and Oura is tens of seconds.
Anyway, agree about limitations. It has still been very useful for me! Cheers.
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#949Ordering 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.
Curious why and how this is something that needs to be done online. Frozen food sounds like a bad thing to order online.
Where I live, if you order frozen food online, they're delivered by a courier specialized in delivering frozen goods (like UPS but only accepts frozen parcels and delivering them using refrigerated trucks).
Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
#950An 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.…
> It’s really a badly marketed product. I think the marketing is really smart. It's positioned as a new category of product. Oven on steroids won't sell because people already own ovens. It has to be a distinct appliance otherwise it's competing against a full sized oven. That's not the comparison you want a consumer to make.
Also competing against many microwaves which function has a convection oven