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A comment on Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?.

Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by bluewalt on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:36PM (#28121351)
- A sneaker cleaner kit, to keep my sneakers clean with no effort.

- A 15000 lux day lamp, because my apartment is pretty dark, why causes some sort of depressing feelings over time

- A Brita Water Filter Pitcher, which replaces all the bottles of water I needed to buy and carry.

- Magnet app (mac OS) to organize windows quickly with keyboard shortcuts.

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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by sergiomattei on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:49PM (#28123271)
Ex-Magnet user here, try Rectangle. It's faster than Magnet, doesn't cause weird bugs, free, open source AND has more features.

It's the whole package.

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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by throw3434053 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:33AM (#28139474)
These were all a bit limited for me. I've settled on yabai[1] (window manager) and SKHD[2] (hotkeys), cannot recommend it enough. [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by wyclif on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:19AM (#28125974)
I've never understood why Apple doesn't make the features Rectangle offers native to macOS. Snapping windows shouldn't require a third-party app, but yet here we are.
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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by gizmo on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:40AM (#28126468)
Microsoft patented it
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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by benhurmarcel on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:37PM (#28133206)
How come most Linux desktop environments have it?
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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by wyclif on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:54AM (#28128886)
MSFT patented snapping windows?
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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by aeoleonn on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:56PM (#28135827)
Nice, thanks! I’ve been using SizeUp for a few years but it has an annoying nagware pop up. I’ll definitely look into rectangle
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Re:Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately impro... by Dracophoenix on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:13PM (#28122973)
What's the lamp model?
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