oculus quest 2 which robovac u got ?
I bought a Eufy 30C, recommended by Consumer Reports. Short enough to get under some of the furniture, quiet, does a great job.
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#32I started a job recently where I'm working for a company in a time zone 3 hours ahead of me. I bought some of the Hue bulbs and replaced my alarm with a gentle synthetic sunrise. My sleep habits have gotten much better since
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#33Nespresso Vertuo!
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#34old thinkpad as a plex server (mostly for watching animes). Love it
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#35* The Moonlander keyboard (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/)
It's not without issues, but the firmware and configurability is so much better than what I was used to from Kinesis. It has made me excited to tailor my keyboard layout to how I'm actually using it day-to-day.
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#36Apple AirPods Max headphones. It's been a long time since I was so pleased with a hardware purchase.
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#371999 GMC Savanna passenger van (seats removed) for use as a farm truck. It’s huge inside and easily holds 4x8 sheets of ply. Here in Seattle it gets wet a lot so I never have to worry about transporting or storing in the rain. Has 8 cylinder engine that will last forever and is easyish to maintain. I get an surprising amount of sheepish interest/envy from dudes who had the same idea but who bought pickups (which seldom even have full size beds anymore) because the pickups look better.
Shark brand vacuum cleaner. Kind of self cleaning, and mandatory because my wife has thick hair. I have spent thousands on vacuums but this is the only one that lasts an entire floor of the house without stopping to cut out the hair, which I hate doing. Then a second shark vacuum cleaner at the office, which is large and 2 floors. I also like the shark because no bags. I am much more likely to do spot cleanups when I won’t waste time going to the other side of another floor.
Rolling wire laundry basket from the Container Store that we use for indoor trash cans. They look great and rolling them where needed is a huge plus. Bought a bunch of those for house and office.
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#38Aeropress, coffee maker.
Me too! Hard to justify using my regular brewing machine anymore. Aeropress just makes a higher quality cup. Quantity be damned, I’ll make multiple cups on the aeropress all day.
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#39Raspberry Pi for me. Took me a long time to finally decide to get one, but I bought a house about a year and a half ago and I've been having a lot of fun messing around with home automation stuff via Home Assistant.
I got a Eufy RoboVac myself and it's not as great as I thought it would be. Although that's partially because of the layout of my home that I haven't found a good spot to put it that it can clean well without me moving a lot of stuff out of the way.
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#40Maybe my FCC license and boafeng. I dont use it much now since it was mostly something for me to do on my commute. Possibly the malts I buy for making my own beer. I would say the MM3 grain mill, but that was actually free. I just had to build a bracket and hopper for it. That thing flys through malt, which is good because I have about 60 lbs to go through. Possibly the bass guitar and Rocksmith. I don't get much tim…
How does the fcc lisence work exactly? Do you get the rights to broadcast at a certain spectrum or something? Does it work for space communication?
This is for a ham license. You can hit repeaters in space (call them OSCARS) or have a satellite that broadcasts images using one of the approved methods.
It doesn't allow for certain types of things. Usually you would need a different type of license for satellite control and communication. That one is usually a frequency allocated to you by the FCC/ITU.