• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 hours ago

    I like to do photography and timelapse videos, so my favorite gadget is a collapsible tripod I can use with my phone. It doubles as a selfie stick and includes a carrying bag and an optional bluetooth remote.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    151·
    1 day ago

    “Lock laces” elastic shoestrings. Gives me a nice fit and I can slip my shoes on and off more easily.

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I will definitely second that recommendation. They turn basically every shoe into a slipper.

      I was skeptical when I read about them, but gave them a go. Reason being: my feet swell during the day, which means I was constantly loosening my laces throughout the day. Which isn’t ideal.

      The Lock Laces help in that they’re always perfect: they flex with my feet and always have just the right tension.

      They are popular with a wide range of people. Triathletes like them for fast transitions since you don’t need to retie your shoes. Marathon runners also love them since it means no more laces getting undone. And yes, they’re obviously great for old folks and people with disabilities.

      I like them so much, I now put them on every new pair of shoes that I buy.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    I bought a nice pair of fingernail clippers. ~$15 Green Bell from Japan. You hardly have to apply any force to the lever at all, and the nail just slices off neatly and falls inside. Not like my old cheapo pair that went “KACHONK” and endangered anyone in my vicinity of shrapnel injuries.

    • whelk@lemm.ee
      4·
      17 hours ago

      I don’t know man, the kachonk is a valuable part of the experience for me, great tactile feedback

    • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 days ago

      I have one of those Japanese nail clippers. I’m wondering how they make it cut so softly. Like even if it didn’t eat the nails they wouldn’t launch. Best clippers ever, even if it’s harder to get the edges.

      • Ledivin@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        I’m betting that it almost all comes down to sharpness and using better metal (harder, keeping it sharp)

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 day ago

    Little remote ring for my phone. I can change the music/volume during my walks without having to dig my phone out of my pocket/etc. I also use it when gaming to change songs without having to put down the controller, same when I’m knitting.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 days ago

    A pi zero w. Need a wireless Android Auto adapter? Flash the right image. Need a Klipper controller for a 3D printer, flash the right image. Need to add a wireless thumb drive to any device that you can drop files to over the network? Flash the right image and run a few commands. They are very cheap and insanely versatile. I originally got a handful for $5 each and am still finding uses for them.

  • taxon@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 days ago

    Managed to pick up an attachable bidet toilet washlet for around $16. Worth every penny.

    • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      21 hours ago

      Bidet master race.

      Got myself one with heated seat, heated water (tankless water heater, not a connection to a hot water tap that takes ages to warm up), and even a hot air dryer thing that I only really use in the winter.

      Cost a hundred bucks, best hundred bucks I’ve ever spent, I’ll never go back.

      Cold water ones are good too, more practical even, but the water gets cold here in the winter, make your brown eye blue lol

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    591·
    2 days ago

    I keep an extremely small 64GB USB-A/USB-C flash drive on my Keychain so I can move files between phones, phone to computer, or load movies and TV shows from a computer or phone and plug into a TV to play.

    It’s only $10 and sometimes it’s very convenient to always have on hand the ability to move files around without the use of a network or the cloud or whatever. The size of it is extremely small.

    Verbatim 64GB Store ‘n’ Go Dual OTG USB 3.2 Gen 1 Flash Drive for USB-C Devices – 2 in 1 Type C Thumb Drive https://a.co/d/40uW3fE

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      So simple to siphon off stuff from the phone like photos to back up! And load it full with films.

      It’s crazy how everything is so locked in.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        2 days ago

        Why I’m holding onto my note 20 ultra for the foreseeable future as well. Last samsung flagship with an SD card slot. It holds all my pictures, videos, and TV shows and movies on that little card.

      • tamiya_tt02@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I have a Pixel 7 Pro and the battery sucks now. I want to wait another year because Verizon contracts are 36 months now. I hope my failing battery lasts that long.

        • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Have the fold.

          Stupid expensive phone that lost half its battery life in less than a year.

          It’s not rocket surgery, just have an option to limit charging to 85% like Samsung does.

          I guess simple math is too hard for Google.

      • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Tip for increasing the life of your next battery:

        Li-Po batteries degrade far faster when their charge level is at the levels the manufacturers call 0-15% or 85-100%; the exact minimum and maximum charge levels are a manufacturer decision that trades off total battery capacity when new against battery life. Manufacturers make the decision by thinking about what is most profitable for them, which is the biggest possible advertised (brand new) battery capacity, while dying quite fast (within a couple of years) to sell more, but not so fast consumers can claim it is faulty.

        So they will happily make the battery last 1/5th of the life it otherwise would, for +30% brand new battery capacity, even if that 30% will be gone in a year of typical use.

        Those decisions are aligned to the manufacturer’s interests, but they are seldom aligned to a consumer’s interest. Most consumers would be better off with 30% less battery capacity, but a phone battery that lasts 5x as long - many people for example charge every day, and only get down to 80% or something anyway.

        The way to re-align to your interests are to: stop charging above 85%, and shut down at 15% instead of going down to 0%. You can do this manually, but it is a real pain; you can’t just plug it in, and leave it until it is charged, you’d need to micromanage charging. Some more responsible manufacturers (e.g. some Samsung devices) have features that will do this for you if you set preserve battery mode. Others, including Google, however, really don’t want you to do this, because it hurts their sales. They don’t provide standard APIs available to unrooted devices that would allow apps that do this.

        If you are willing to root your device (and ideally install a third party Android distro like LineageOS), you can install ACCA (https://f-droid.org/packages/mattecarra.accapp/) on a rooted device, and set it to stop charging at 85%, and shut down at 15%. This will increase your battery life very significantly, and drastically slow the decline in capacity you’d otherwise see. Unfortunately, many manufacturers hate people taking control of their own devices this way; Google has unfortunately convinced major banks etc… to use their so called “Play Integrity API” to check that your device is “secure” (where secure is defined by Google as including a phone no longer receiving security patches, with known vulnerabilities that let someone trivially install a keylogger over the wifi, but excluding the same phone rooted by the owner, with a highly secure up-to-date LineageOS install, with extra security software like firewalls that stock Android wouldn’t allow, and with ACCA installed; it’s almost like “secure” means toeing the Google line, and the banks have been conned). There are sometimes ways to pass the Play Integrity API checks even when rooted, but Google is constantly battling users to try to break them. But it might be worth it for better security and battery life.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        2 days ago

        Not a pixel, but I literally just replaced my note 20 ultra battery like 2 hours ago. I have all the equipment and knowhow to rip phones apart that don’t want to let you. I believe most of the pixels aren’t too bad to get into and battery replace if you ever get a wild hair in you to give it a shot. Just fyi, go with an oem battery. Pretty much all aftermarket ones are terrible. Also be careful of the loads of counterfeits and used sold as new batts on eBay.

          • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
            3·
            2 days ago

            No, but it’s a great source to get stuff if they can get the parts, and all their tools should work well. If their batteries aren’t OEM ones, they won’t try to pass them off as such.

            I’ve been fixing cell phones since the 90’s, along with a lot of other electronics, so most of my equipment has been a hodge-podge of sources I’ve collected over the past 25 or so years.

            In the case of the battery I just got for my N20 Ultra, there is no source I could come up with that sold in the US and also seemed verifiable or completely trustworthy so I had to take a risk and order through a supplier off ebay. The pictures looked legit and like what I know the oem’s look like, and they had the correct looking adhesive and protective coverings on the batt, plus I messaged the seller back and fourth a couple of times and they stayed on their claim they had new oem batts, even after I’d mentioned I would capacity test the battery and leave them a review.

            Now, I still won’t know for sure for a few more days. I’ll drain the batt to phone shut off and then charge to 100% plus 2 more hours a couple times, and then drain to shut off and charge it to 100% + 2 hours one more time while leaving the phone off and using my in line voltage/mah tester. Knock off batteries never get very close to an oem batts capacity.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 day ago

    Arduino? you can get like 3 or the mini ones for $15 and depending on the amount of effort you are willing to put in it can control almost anything.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1292·
    3 days ago

    Mantric Rechargeable Remote Control Knicker Vibrator I got on sale for 50% off. I’m not super into the whole public thing, but I’ve been using it way more than my magic wand, that fucking tip is shaped perfectly. Plus it would make an excellent phaser prop.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    162·
    2 days ago

    Thinkpad T440p docking station, I get everything these days is USB C but I love having a docking station thats sturdy and has tons of ports vs a dongle that hangs off the side of my laptop and has maybe six ports.

  • xelar@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 days ago
    • slicer for round fruits
    • large 1l cup (not that small ^^)
    • book light with attachment