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Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
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Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#2A vertical mouse for roughly 20 bucks. I had developed a strange tremor in my hand, so I decided to change the way I hold my mouse. Found the vertical mouse, which immediately made the tremor disappear. The mouse is bulky and ugly, but it took about two minutes to get used to and seems to be much more ergonomic.
Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#3A 90$ HP 22" monitor to use side-by-side with my 15" laptop display. The quality is a bit lower than the laptop display but having more space and a bigger display is such a blessing for my eyes and my productivity.
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#4- Sauna ticket
Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#5A vertical mouse for roughly 20 bucks. I had developed a strange tremor in my hand, so I decided to change the way I hold my mouse. Found the vertical mouse, which immediately made the tremor disappear. The mouse is bulky and ugly, but it took about two minutes to get used to and seems to be much more ergonomic.
It is a bit more expensive although still under $100 - I've used the 3M joystick mouse for the last decade with much success for hand pain. Worth a try if you ever in the market again. It holds the weight of your hand and takes all strain (at least for me) out of the wrist.
Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#6Sadly, probably my Amazon Echo!
Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#7I bought a water flossing machine. I've been flossing for more than a year, but there were always bits of my gums that stayed kind of sensitive. According to my dentist it was "possible to do it right, but hard", which I took to mean I was bad at flossing. Now I floss in the evening after dinner with regular floss and use the water flosser twice a day. Works like a charm, I would have gotten one ages ago if I knew they existed and worked this well.
Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#8$25 RTL-SDR dongle to sate intellectual curiosity about radio
$5 / mo // $ 60 / yr digital ocean droplets for intellectual curiosity about web dev
Not exactly within budget but ~$400 gym membership (from Costco.. so, factor in the amortized cost of that, too, I guess) for 24 hr fitness for 2 years - going to the gym has been a HUGE game-changer for me. Never really did it before with any discipline, and already within 3 months there have been great dividends for me. I'm much stronger than I was just 3 months ago. Much less anxious and stuff too.
Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#9Paid tutorial. Much better than to put all the information in the right order from random places on the net.
Re: Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
#10$25 RTL-SDR dongle to sate intellectual curiosity about radio $5 / mo // $ 60 / yr digital ocean droplets for intellectual curiosity about web dev Not exactly within budget but ~$400 gym membership (from Costco.. so, factor in the amortized cost of that, too, I guess) for 24 hr fitness for 2 years - going to the gym has been a HUGE game-changer for me. Never really did it before with any discipline, and already withi…
The DO droplets are such a great investment. Using them to learn and develop is such an easy thing to do and they can be used for almost anything. This last weekend I set up NodeJS and Postgres just to tinker with and it has been a blast to learn something new. At $5 a month, it is hard to pass up.