Rice cooker.
are those better than an electric pressure cooker?
Do electric pressure cookers cook rice?
I mean do they switch off/warm mode correctly when the rice dries up, like a rice cooker, or do you have to time it?
Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have had that Logitech mouse for ages (and the predecessor) and love it.
this G hub software is pretty bad tho, am i missing somthing, i cant seem to tell it to write to the deivce i only want 900 dpi, on whatever im using. its either a snail or a rabbit.
What OS are you on? Most my experience with ghub is windows. I think I have 4 dpi stops set and it's typically defaulting to the lower middle one - unless I'm gaming.
I believe there's options to have the mouse run in device mode (settings stored there, but I think the features are more limited) or via ghub where the settings might be stored on the computer. I'd need to dig in again though to remember, I've not touched it ghub settings in a while.
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#73Logitech G502 Hero wired mouse on sale for $30 at Lenovo to replace a dying Razer. I heard it's a good mouse and I hope I will like it.
The skates and the side grip both fell off mine. A far cry from the old G5 I had that lasted 10 years. These new logitechs demand you install software and they barely last a year for me
I've been using a G Pro Wireless without software for almost 2 years now?
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#74I bought a Beelink mini PC to replace the cloud VM that hosts a few things for me. I'm tired of resizing my little EBS volumes, and want to store more data. At the discounted price, I should be saving money in about a year with substantially better specs... not including the cost of my time in figuring out backups and all that nonsense.
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#75Samsung frame TV, they're about 33% off this week from the typical price. I know it has mixed reviews with the tech crowd but everyone I know that's gotten one for primarily aesthetic reasons loves it. I have an open floor plan apartment with not a ton of wall space, so I'm optimistic it will be a good way to have a TV when needed without making the TV such a focal point of the room. I'm also looking forward to getti…
Our living room is made of windows and direct sunlight is a nightmare for most TVs. We don't wish to cover our windows every time we watch a show or kick on the nintendo switch, as we like having a house with tons of light and windows :)
We LOVE our frame TV. Its anti-glare is awesome. The samsung nagware and UI suck, but I've not found anything nearly as good.
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#76* Pixel 8 to replace my Pixel 3, which doesn't get security updates. I was happy with my Pixel 3, but trading in my Pixel 3 gave a 50% discount, on top of the Pixel 8 discount. I figure Pixel 3 trade ins won't be so generous in future, and Pixel 8 is an outlier in Android update support (2030!). 570 AUD.
* Thinkpad t480s from EBay, who had a November discount. I had no laptop! 300 AUD.
* Electronics tools/consumables from Aliexpress. 100 AUD?
No video games. I'm having fun playing my backlog on the Steam Deck.
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#77A flashlight [1].
I did buy something last year on Black Friday, a Fender CC-140SCE guitar, but it had problems and I returned it. After I sent it back I realized that one of the problems it has should be, as far as I can tell, actually impossible and regretted not noticing that earlier so I could have examined it closely to see what the hell was going on.
Here is the seemingly impossible problem. Maybe someone here can figure out how this could happen.
On the first string all the notes were right except at the 13th fret. Here's what you are supposed to get at the 12th-15th frets and what you actually got:
12 13 14 15
E F F# G If the fret is too low or another fret between that fret and the saddle is too high the string might end up suspended on a fret closer to the saddle, and so you get the note for that closer fret instead which will be higher.
Here's a diagram showing why I think this should be impossible for it to do what mine was doing [2].
Ignore fret 14 for a moment. For fret 13 to play a G it has to be below the dotted line labeled "G Line".
Now look at fret 14. It plays the correct note, F#. To do so it must be above the G Line.
But then when you play fret 13 the string necessarily has to go above the G Line to get over fret 14, and from there should pass above fret 15. It should play fret 14's note, F#, not fret 15's G.
We should then get on 12-15 E F# F# G.
If fret 14 were low enough for 13 to play G, 14 would have to be below the G Line, and so 14 would also play G, giving is E G G G on 12-15.
In general, no matter what is going on with fret heights, moving one fret closer to the saddle should never result in a lower note, and moving one step away from the saddle should never result in a higher note.
And thus I'm completely baffled by that guitar.
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
are those better than an electric pressure cooker?
Do electric pressure cookers cook rice? I mean do they switch off/warm mode correctly when the rice dries up, like a rice cooker, or do you have to time it?
oh right, it doesn't autodetect on the models i've seen, so that is one thing to think about, but it has seemed pretty forgiving. just remember to 1:1 the water since it's sealed
if you're asian or whatever and make rice 10x times a week then a dedicated device is probably a good idea but if not then i'd think twice before getting something mechanically similar to but not as capable as a pressure cooker
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#79Tons of close calls.
Nearly bought a portable monitor for cafe coding; it's just so great that there's a huge variety of panels being packaged & made available at decent prices now! 2k 16" 500 nit >60Hz HDR was my goal, and it was hard finding parametric matches. Just gonna put that idea on the shelf again, but it's excellent to see how much more is available.
Almost bought a "solar generator" to run some electronics off & feel good about, but sizing feels off. I need a signficant power station to feel ok running a potentially 600w+ computer, but then the station could handle more solar, but then I don't have enough ways to use all that power day to day. It feels weird. I wish I had the years to artisinally handcraft power systems for this all. It bugs me that 48v or wide-Vin DC power supplies aren't available to consumers; everything would be so much cooler if they were.
I did end up buying a couple hundred feet of cheap st38 string lights for patio space. And some small cheap 20w Neewer lights (rgb62), with their app control, to complement some bigger lights I use. And some better videography clamp mounts and magic ball arms, which among other things I want to use to mount my 360-degree camera onto my bicycle with, on a very extended arm for some spacy floaty ride around the city videos with. Bought a 512GB Samsung Pro Ultimate SD card for said camera. Finally bought the Premio Apagard toothpaste (nano hydroxyapatite) that I've been idling about. Bought some chai and some tea candles. Bought a Matter smart plug to dabble with.
Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?
#80* Pixel 8 to replace my Pixel 3, which doesn't get security updates. I was happy with my Pixel 3, but trading in my Pixel 3 gave a 50% discount, on top of the Pixel 8 discount. I figure Pixel 3 trade ins won't be so generous in future, and Pixel 8 is an outlier in Android update support (2030!). 570 AUD. * Thinkpad t480s from EBay, who had a November discount. I had no laptop! 300 AUD. * Electronics tools/consumables…
I got the 7a to replace my 4a5G. Only got a measly $47 off lol