Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?

Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by bredren on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:37PM (#30237749)

I keep an agent that monitors amazon pricing on the filters, and just buy a bunch when they dip abnormally low. Have you found any other ways to minimize cost on them? I have only used the ones sold by coway, as my pal tried some 3rd party and they were jenky.

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Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by darkteflon on Sunday February 06, 2022 @06:40PM (#30238281)

Depending on where you live, filters are a once/twice a year expense, I believe (I’m only a few months in). Honestly my advice would be: just be diligent about maintaining them. I vacuum out the filter and charcoal screen once every couple of weeks. Takes a few minutes, pretty painless. Amazing how much dust they pick up in normal operation.

Incidentally, which agent are you using for Amazon?

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Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by bredren on Monday February 14, 2022 @12:49AM (#30328788)

Missed this reply--I use camelcamelcamel for Amazon. I'm not sure if they are able to handle the click-to-get-discount check boxes, though. I also don't know how timely they are.

I've considered setting up Huginn to do this, but haven't explored it enough: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

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