Getting a second monitor for my work computer gave me a 30% boost in my productivity.
They should cover at least 30% of the cost! Haha
Epson tank printer
Second the tank printers. Cartridges cost way to much fing money
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My Lumix S5 camera, it feels great to go from a micro43 camera to a full frame camera, though I am allready looking at the Sony A7 IV as a complement to my S5 due to it’s superior autofocus…
RAM update. Doubling your RAM on most low/medium -end consumer PCs will noticeably improve responsiveness and multitasking.
I’ve literally never felt the need for more RAM, except on an old netbook that had 1GB and struggled with opening a website.
Clearly you haven’t had the joy of having 10 tabs on Firefox, a film playing on VLC, the torrent client running, and trying to open up a large Solidworks assembly file on a 16GB Windows 10 PC. It gets eaten up fairly quickly.
No. I can’t look at 10 browser tabs, a film, and a Solidworks assembly file at the same time, so doing that makes no sense to me.
Recently had my RAM died on me and bought a new pair. I had a 16gb and the 32gb ones were on sale. Really felt the difference lol
iPhone 1.0. I was notoriously good at getting lost cause I’m not great with directions. A couple days after I got it, I was going somewhere in a city that isn’t my own. I stepped off the train and pulled up the map app, looked at a couple of street signs, and said, “I’m going that way.”
I thought to myself, this changes everything. Younger people who never had to rely on paper maps will never understand how profound that moment was.
Going from a Candybar phone to an iPhone.
Constant Glucose Monitors compared to the archaic finger stick monitors was like getting a blow job after spending a lifetime hacking it with sandpaper.
A raspberry pi.
Installed Pihole on it and now get almost no ads on all devices at home.
SBCs are pretty cool. ESP is pretty cool too.
Recently, my car. I was driving around a 2006 and recently got a 2024. A backup camera is amazing. The collision detection, touch display, and Bluetooth are a nice bonus also.
Back up cameras and 360 parking detection sensors. Heated and cooled seats. Android Auto with integrated Google Maps. New cars are so much better than my old beater.
Yeah, I recently went from a 2005 to a 2018, and even the jump in that was amazing! Bluetooth for music and for phonecalls, it’s changed my driving experience to be a much better one.
Motion sensor and smart light switch. There are two rooms in my house with multiple entryways and awful light switch options, so without these I’d just stumble in the dark.
We also have it for our carport and it’s so pleasant for the light to automagically happen and then go off without needing to remember to change anything.
(And all of this done through local mesh and Apple HomeKit. We do not use proprietary services that can be shut down on us.)
Smart oven + meal plan: My spouse bought me one for my birthday (a Tovala) and I have to admit I was skeptical at first but hot diggity damn does it make fresh cooked meals easy. We very rarely order out now and the meals are usually very good (stay away from the burgers though, their bread usually sucks).
I got a microwave with an inverter magnetron.
When you set your microwave to, let’s say, 20% power, a typical microwave will cycle the magnetron, so that it runs at 100% power for 20% of the cooking time and is off in between. With an inverter, the actual power output of the magnetron can vary, so it’s actual 20% power for the whole time. It does an excellent job of gently reheating things like sandwiches and cooked rice without drying them out or scorching. Also, if something has instructions written for a lower wattage microwave, I can just turn the power down until it’s close to that wattage instead of doing calculations to modify the time.
TIL. But also 2-3 times as expensive it seems.
Noise cancelling headphones. I wish I could wear them 24/7.
Bone conduction headphones for biking. Being able to listen to my tunes while I’m riding around is amazing.
out of my price range and unnecessary for me atm, but the display at Best buy was pretty impressive. was very surprised by them.
