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Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by sergiomattei »

bluewalt wrote: post #104

- A sneaker cleaner kit, to keep my sneakers clean with no effort. - A 15000 lux day lamp, because my apartment is pretty dark, why causes some sort of depressing feelings over time - A Brita Water Filter Pitcher, which replaces all the bottles of water I needed to buy and carry. - Magnet app (mac OS) to organize windows quickly with keyboard shortcuts.

Ex-Magnet user here, try Rectangle. It's faster than Magnet, doesn't cause weird bugs, free, open source AND has more features.

It's the whole package.

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by tmaly »

falcolas wrote: post #154
tmaly wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where can I get Izotope RX8 elements for $9 ? that is a really good deal

Well, hell. Apparently I got in on a sale. I just purchased it directly from Izotope's store. It's not showing the discounted price for me now. Sorry about that.

I was able to find it for $19 now. Do you know if you can buy additional plugins for it?

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by the__alchemist »

Hue Ambiance light bulbs with OEM switches. Being able to dim without buzz, and change color temperature (Blue/white/red) is a game changer for my circadian rhythm and overall feel of the apartment.

This may be prohibitively expensive for people who live in large places.

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by falcolas »

tmaly wrote: post #162
falcolas wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, hell. Apparently I got in on a sale. I just purchased it directly from Izotope's store. It's not showing the discounted price for me now. Sorry about that.

I was able to find it for $19 now. Do you know if you can buy additional plugins for it?

So far as I've found, they only sell the individual tools in the "Elements", "Standard", and "Professional" bundles.

The other tools I use in my FX chains are all reaper built-ins and plugins.

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by sergiomattei »

moistly wrote: post #124
is0tope wrote: post #62

Two things: 1. Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 Bluetooth speaker. Compact and very loud, also has good battery life. Handy on hikes and similar. The waterproofing is excellent and I use it in the shower to listen to podcasts, etc. 2. Sony WH1000MX4 Bluetooth headphones. I was skeptical in getting a full set of headphones as I always preferred earphones. These things have amazing sound quality and noise cancelation which m…

> Handy on hikes Are you aware that other hikers hate you for this? I suppose you don’t care.

Not all! On my last hike we ran upon some folks with a Bluetooth speaker blasting music.

I started dancing and having fun with the hikers...

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by sergiomattei »

DrJones1098 wrote: post #27

A dog. Overall for around 100 bucks a month in food/trifexis the value a dog brings to your life is massive. People will constantly talk to you so youre socializing. There's a creature that loves you unconditionally which is a really cool feeling. Theyre a ton of fun so it's hard to be bored. They're good for getting exercise as they always want to play. And more. Theres studies that say owning a dog increases your l…

God, I've low-key been wanting to adopt a husky...

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by kaczordon »

mettamage wrote: post #53

Some that come to mind. __Health__ Melatonin. There is no other way for me to go to bed and this knocks me right out (I use 0.2 - 0.4 milligrams). Sleep mask (no more waking up because a stray light hits my eye) I'd say sleep earplugs but I have a sound in my ear, but otherwise earplugs Mosquito repellent scent (for sleep as well). Silicon earplugs when going out, I never thought I'd get ear/hearing damage because I…

Melatonin is not recommended for sleep. A better combo to take would be 200mg L-theanine and 500mg Magnesium Threonate. Melatonin can disrupt your natural melatonin production and those supplements are also notoriously inaccurate in terms of dosage some containing anywhere from 0.2x to 2x the amount listed. Melatonin is probably acting more as a placebo for you now.

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by shaftway »

the__alchemist wrote: post #163

Hue Ambiance light bulbs with OEM switches. Being able to dim without buzz, and change color temperature (Blue/white/red) is a game changer for my circadian rhythm and overall feel of the apartment. This may be prohibitively expensive for people who live in large places.

When you say OEM switches, what exactly do you mean?

I've been trying to get the perfect setup and the Lutron LZL-4B was pretty close, but they've been discontinued and are hard to find for under $100 / switch.

The RunLessWire switches don't use batteries, which is a negative for me. To use them you have to push the switch oddly hard, so when visitors don't press it hard enough they assume the lights are broken.

The Philips Hue Dimmer would be *perfect* if it fit a standard light switch opening. But it doesn't, and I'm not going to stick an extra fake-looking outlet to my walls.

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by JoeyJoJoJr »

ozzythecat wrote: post #52

An electric toothbrush and floss. Brushing with a regular toothbrush doesn’t give me the clean/fresh feeling my electric toothbrush does. The model I have was maybe $25 or $30. Using the electric toothbrush and flossing before bed every night, I feel like in my morning my mouth actually still feels fine. Of course I would never start my day without brushing, but my mouth doesn’t feel icky when I wake up in the mornin…

What electric floss do you use?

Re: Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

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Post by nokya »

noahjk wrote: post #88
bxparks wrote: post #71

A Fujitsu S1500 ScanSnap, dual-sided, document scanner (now discontinued, replacement might be the iX1600). Completely changed how I manage my personal documents (e.g. financial, invoices, receipts, product manuals, medical info, business docs, recreation and hobby stuff, etc). Anything remotely important, I scan to PDF, which triggers automatic OCR that is reasonably accurate, then I upload the PDF to Google Drive,…

Does anyone have a suggestion for a dual-sided feed scanner like this which can be used to semi-automate document scanning and which is not discontinued? I've been thinking about this for a while but I don't know enough about the market

+1 Also interested
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