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I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn't work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver.

Need something flat to put a laptop on? Throw it on the foam. Going to be doing something that requires you to be on your knees for a while? Get the foam!

It went from stupid purchase to something I'd gladly replace if it broke.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (9 children)

An impulse buy of a $20 micro wireless Bluetooth keyboard. Holy shit. Rock-solid design, ludicrously long battery life, excellent signal transmission, a replaceable battery with the option to use AAAs, a usable trackpad with sensitivity settings. I cannot stress enough how impressed I am with this device as an electrical engineer.

Now I can actually get real work/play done when I'm too depressed to get out of bed. It's also really useful for working with a Raspberry Pi. That plus a cheap LCD means I can just use it like an ordinary desktop.

If anyone is interested in this product, ask for a link and I'll post it in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its been 22 mins.

Sad to bring you guys the bad news it but it was confirmed that OP was electrified while changing the AAA batteries in his keyboard. Apparently it also has a feature to scale up the voltages of the battery and OP accidentally pressed it.

RIP in piece OP

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That or he spilled Mtn Dew on his keyboard

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am dead. This is son. The will told me to post this link. RIP in spaghetti, never forghetti.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post the link! This isn't Twitter where you get penalized for posting links.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Here's the link. I didn't know you get penalized for links on Twitter. I'm just really hesitant to advertise stuff. I absolutely hate advertising and I didn't want to fill up your feed with random products if no one was interested in the thing. I wanted to wait until there's actual interest.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Had the same reaction to buying a cheap trackpad/keyboard all in one - ended up buying a few more so I could have one in each room... Good for main pc, laptops, phones and tablets, Flawless signal, insane battery, such good tech

I found having a big glass of water next to my alarm, which I can chug as soon as I wake up does wonders for getting out of bed and fighting off the AM blues - hope you're good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For people asking for the link, I personally have iClever BK03. Bought it so I can use my phone on the go and don't have to drag a laptop. It's been great. Charged it once so far in past year or so and that was just to make sure. Awesome build quality and great to type on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tbh that's probably a better keyboard, but I really was not kidding about the "not getting out of bed" part. I ended up getting this because I can literally lie down in bed and cradle it like a video game controller.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, didn't think there'd be that much interest. Here you go: link.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I have a tiny one with a trackpad for setting up raspberry pis and a bigger fold out one for typing on my phone when I'm traveling, they make everything so much easier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Link? Is it one of the below?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nope! I haven't tried it, but it would have been too big and expensive to be in the running at the time. Here's my link.