{{ Stuff that just works }}

[fredx]

JAWS Glass cleaner and CarPro glass fiber towels

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Mak

JAWS Glass cleaner and CarPro glass fiber towels

Making a mental note to try this. Thanks.

 

[fredx]

Mak

Making a mental note to try this. Thanks.

I detail cars as a hobby and have a lot of glass in my house so I have tried lots of things
The towels are a bit pricey but worth it.
But cleaning glass RIGHT takes a little know how
Good luck!!

 

[orbital]

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Having a corded usb mouse & keyboard for emergency back-up on your computer.

More than a couple times in my life my computer(s) had a major brain fade, my cordless mouse & keyboard didn't work,,
unless you have a dedicated corded keyboard your really without options.

This happened out of the blue today on another system, had to find my corded keyboard.

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

I never went cordless. Don't wanna deal with input lag, possible desyncs, interference and babying even more sets of batteries.

 

[bykfixer]

Sometimes I wonder if all of these super high frequency radio waves aren't causing issues in the balance of nature. None us will probably live long enough to know.

But I like a cordless mouse with the laser optic. That thing works great on a dull surface without a mouse pad.

 

[The Hawk]

I tried the cordless model for a while, but ended up going back old school with my corded mouse.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I've been cordless at work and corded at home. At work I got tired of the mouse cable breaking right at the point where it enters the mouse, causing all sorts of intermittent wackiness. The cordless solved that problem and I only have to feed it batteries twice a year.

 

[bykfixer]

I issued my old corded mouse to a coworker whose cordless one had stopped working. He said "my mouse stopped working, can I have another one?" I replied "did you change the battery?" He replied "it has a battery?"

 

[SamKormak]

For me it's corded keyboard+ cordless mouse at home and both cordless at work. Batteries not really an issue since it's like 4-5 months per set. Also somewhat considering getting cordless headphones so I can walk around both at home and in office in those

 

[bykfixer]

At the office on the mother ship I use corded stuff because so many are using bluetooth stuff it drives my blue tooth stuff crazy with disconnects and longer than normal connections or just failing to connect at all.
At the remote office, cordless. It just works.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

....... because so many are using bluetooth stuff it drives my blue tooth stuff crazy with disconnects ......

Yep! My AirPods don't seem to understand who they belong to. They bounce around the room like a doggy begging for treats.

 

[pnwoutdoors]

Knipex pliers ...

Exceptional products, IMO. I've got a couple of their small-ish pliers, and an old set of diagonal cutters (the old "dykes" style of tool). They work as expected, every time, in every condition. Workhorses. They're in the "lifetime products" category, for sure. I suspect they won't ever fail. Haven't need to sharpen or adjust, ever. Good stuff.

 

[pnwoutdoors]

ThermaRest pads (the original) -- pretty great. Keeps you off the ground, insulates just enough. When topped with a "space blanket" type layer it can help with the coldest of surfaces one might be forced to camp on. (Spent a night in 6ºF on granite that had a very sparse soil layer on top, some years ago ... and spent at least some of my dreaming thinking of ThermaRest. Brr-rrrrr.)

Can't say I've used one of the recently-made ones. But the early-'80s 2-R-value ones were great for what they were. Nice to see they've now got 6-R variations, these days.

 

[Fuzzywuzzies]

Zero Tolerance and Rick Hinderer collaborated on the ZT0562TI folding knife. No-nonsense functionality in a top quality folding knife. Has never let me down, unlike not one but two other knives, which left their marks on my hands when their respective locks broke…. (No I wasn’t misusing them either time)
If it’s legal in your corner of the world, and the size works for you I simply cannot recommend it highly enough.