• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    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

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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    13 hours ago

    I got my robot vacuum with lidar for $60. Not typical, but still possible to grab a refurbished unit.

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    17 hours ago

    Shoutouts to @sbv@sh.itjust.works BUY BIDET NOW. Obligatory comment about wiping shit off your hands with dry paper goes here. Wash your ass. I have two bidets BTW and I use Arch Linux BTW.

    Wall mounted soda can crusher. Recycling space saver.

    Powered water fountain for cats. They instinctually prefer running water.

    I bought the Swiss Army Knife of memory foam pillows that has sections on both ends for side sleeping, a dent in the middle with a neck support sticking out the bottom for support while stomach sleeping, and it works for sleeping on my back too. I don’t really have a discernable favorite position, so I love the multifunction pillows.

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      16 hours ago

      Any recommended brands/models for the pillow? I’ve never heard of such a thing, but it sounds incredible.

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        16 hours ago

        Just the one since the time between buying this one and the previous is too many years to be relavant anymore.

        Right now it’s the Cervical Pillow by HOMCA that I recommend 'cuz that’s what I got and I like it? Haha.

        They look like this:

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    17 hours ago

    When are the bidet advocates gonna show up? This post has been up for like an hour!

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, but sub $100 usually means cold water. A stream of chilly water up your butthole is a bad time.

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        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.

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        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.