Air Fryer. You can find basic models for under 100.
Game changing iem’s? TRUTHEAR Zero Blue 2.
Been obsessed with Galaxy Tab A9 recently which is around 75-100$. You can root it and turn it into a lot of general purpose devices for automation or just an e-reader. The only problem is battery so you need a plug for it full time if used in automation environment.
I rather have a foldable. You can find a nice Samsung that’s a couple generations old for around $400. Once you get used to having a tablet in your pocket everywhere you go, there’s no turning back. Having a large portable screen is especially useful for games and restaurant menus.
A power bank is pretty useful to keep yourself tethered to the internet (via your phone)
Or you can puncture it and throw it at a cop and 🔋💥 and you end up with bullet holes in you like a swiss cheese, pretty life changing I’d say
(For legal purposes, that was a joke, calm the fuck down FBI 👀)
If you’re like me and either don’t have enough space or don’t like moving a normal computer mouse around, a good trackball mouse is probably gonna be real good.
I originally got a cheap enough ergonomic wireless Logitech one from walmart for my then new laptop I got for college. Then, just maybe a month or two ago, I got an ergonomic one from Elecom to replace my standard mouse because it was having some click problems and scroll wheel issues. The only problem I have with either is how the ball on the Elecom one doesn’t always move super smooth and I can’t be as precise as I can with the Logitech one.
A good knife sharpener. For 100 USD you can get very good ones, but even a 10 USD/EUR one can make a huge difference.
I found a great one and bought multiple of THESE, it is truly amazing. The suction cup design is genius.
A bidet
Honestly I go on awesome vacations and then hear the price is right fail song when I go to the bathroom and my bidet is not there…
When are the bidet advocates gonna show up? This post has been up for like an hour!
EDIT: the bidet people have arrived. Thank goodness. I was starting to worry that my instance had been defederated.
If a bidet user was also an Arch user, which would they tell you about first?
About their smart bidet running on arch
Eek. Then every time the water line from the water heater got to room temperature because it’s been six minutes since you last ran the bidet, it’d say “water not found” because the standing water in the water line was “out of date”.
An Arch user, who’s vegan, does CrossFit, and owns a bidet. I think their head would explode trying to figure out which to talk about.
How can you tell who the vegan is at a party?
All the carnivores keep telling you about them.
Yeah, but sub $100 usually means cold water. A stream of chilly water up your butthole is a bad time.
So I spent the money on a NASA level bidet for that reason. Everyone I knew had been getting bidets and nobody would shut up about it, but they were all getting the $40 wands from Amazon. I couldn’t imagine my poor innocent pucker taking an icy blasting daily, so when we bought one we got the full toilet seat replacement with heated dryer, seat and water heater.
After about 6 months I decided to turn the water heater off to save the .78cents a month in electricity, because it really didn’t make a difference to me. The water is in the little hose and in the pipes of the house sitting and waiting for my butt for hours, it’s perfectly room temp. I’ve never had a situation where my partner uses it first and then I do and the warm water runs down, or any other situation that would create that perfect storm, so I won’t be buying one with a heater again…
The real life lesson I learned getting this bidet was because of the heated seat. You know the expression “you don’t know what you go til it’s gone”?
Well at first I noticed the welcoming warmth of the seat, and because the toilet is extra smart it “learns” when to expect me and my partner and preheats the seat to save energy.
But when I am off my routine, even just the weekends sometimes, I’ll go and take a seat: instant sad. It’s not freezing or anything, just unexpected enough and very mildly unpleasant. Something I never noticed before in my life (of luxury I guess, never had a bathroom so cold in my house that the change was shocking enough to register a memory.)
Now, every other toilet in the world is a very mild disappointment. This is a Greek tragedy in modern times.
My partner and I were concerned about that originally but it’s really a non issue for either of us, it’s still way better than not having one.
A USB-charged battery-powered pump. I use it to top up my bicycle tyres, it makes cycling a breeze.
Just got one on Friday, and man, did it make it so much easier!
As someone who was chronically constipated: A year’s supply of psyllium husks.
As someone who was overweight, depressed and had severe back pain, a yoga mat.
Heroin.
Game Genie. They were like $50 and let you change all kinds of games.
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What?
Technically this is the correct answer
A bicycle (with a lock)
A raincoat or umbrella
A smartphone
Shoes
A reliable electric light source, like a lamp.
Maybe an electric fan, if you’re in a hot environment
A good multitool or Swiss Army Knife.
Mine was gifted to me a few years ago but it’s come in handy more times than I can count. Use it at least three times a week.
Leatherman has the warranty you need. Fantastic products with basically a lifetime warranty on any damage.
A multimeter. There’s so much you can do and learn with a decent multimeter. Extech is a good cheaper brand, as is BK Precision and Brymen. Just make sure it has a built-in fuse for the Amperage reading, and ideally, it should be true RMS.
A pentel twist erase pencil… best pencil 10/10
If you wear contacts, use dailies. It’s so liberating to not care if you waste one because it fell in a dirty sink or remove them right before bed without a mirror.
Automatic plant watering systems. They’re dirt cheap, can run on batteries or USB, and work great.
A detachable base wood clamp for recycling cardboard. Pierce all your boxes with the end and then put the base back on and haul more boxes at once than you thought was humanly possible.
