Yeti bottles are amazingly good, and unlike some competitors they are dishwasher safe. Highly recommend.
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Yeah, i had been thinking of getting one of the bottles in that colorway for like half the year now. I made sure i’m not being too impulsive and also ran this by my partner, and they were cool with it 
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This is a Slice Mini Box Cutter:
It has a ceramic blade that keeps its edge longer than a standard razor blade. The tip is rounded in order to make it slightly harder to stab yourself. The blade is spring-loaded so that as soon as you let go of the slider, it retracts. The blade is also reversible so that it can easily be used left-handed. There’s also an internal magnet so that it can easily be attached to a fridge or other metal surface. Finally, the blades are replaceable, although I’ve only ever had to do that once due to breaking one.
There are many ways to cut open a box, but I don’t know of one that is more thoughtfully designed. If you open and/or tear down a lot of boxes, I’d recommend one of these.
Note: there is another similar item with an orange slide. It intentionally does not have a spring-loaded blade, and the tip is pointed. I’m not sure precisely when these features would be useful, but they are available if you’d prefer them.
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Good rec, we do break down boxes regularly so will check this out
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That does seem pretty perfect for you if you want orange and crab!
My spouse has a bottle from Buzio that he’s outright abused. I don’t know how many times he has dropped it. I have one that has been treated rather more nicely but it also has a wider base. His is the car-ready type. Going on 4 years for each and I’ve had to replace one top once. They come with spare straw and straw cleaner. You can get replacement tops.
Their kid’s bottles have been great for Kitty. They all come with a spare top, spare straws, and straw cleaner. Needless to say, the kid has been hard on these bottles.
They are all easy to clean but not dishwasher safe. You can often find them on sale at Amazon or Walmart website.
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I bought one of these for my Mum
for collage etc.
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So after much waiting i have received my dumb Yeti bottle, and frankly. I love it
And yes, i have a posable crab figurine. I’m an adult. Maybe
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It’s not dumb! I like it and I’m not even particularly fond of crabs. Take your joy where you can find it 
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One of my fave indie shops is having a black friday sale.
Here’s a pin of theirs i liked
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I am incredibly impressed with my new bottle for cold coffee at the office. So easy to take apart and clean and really pretty. It isn’t emerald. Too much blue. It’s one of those colors some people will see as green and some blue with a nice sparkle. It is beautiful
Edit for picture
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I know that zojirushi tends to rank pretty well for quality in their bottles so I’m not surprised. But really happy to know it fits your needs perfectly
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Keychron came up in another thread, so I thought I’d drop this here:
Woot has discounted Keychron keyboards until 2025-02-01T06:00:00Z
https://computers.woot.com/plus/keychron-mechanical-keyboards-8
Woot is owned by Amazon, so take that for what it’s worth.
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Since there isn’t a dedicated Lego thread i think this is the next best place 
Price is outside of my means but it looks amazing
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After literally years of hemming and hawing over getting an e-paper tablet, I finally bought a Note Air 4C and I think I’m in love.
I decided to jump since I wanted to get it before tariffs cause the price to creep any higher. (So far they are holding steady, actually, but the site is warning about impending price increases.)
Quick bullet point review:
I like:
- It has a front light!
- Google Play Store enabled is a plus.
- The handwriting recognition is incredible, probably 95%+ accuracy on my chicken scratch. It even translated some of my wife’s indecipherable scrawl with perfect accuracy.
- Pen is super responsive, lag is almost imperceptible.
- I thought I wouldn’t be into the color, the palette of which is quite muted, but graphic novels look great on it.
- Incredibly fast refresh rates, acceptable ghosting, plus lots of features for configuring full refreshes and app-specific quality settings.
- The OS has lots of configuraiton options and it’s pretty easy (once you figure out your way around) to configure the settings to your taste.
- Calibre recognizes it and manages ebook loading/unloading with ease.
- The built-in reader app is great.
- Form factor is big enough to read PDFs without too much squinting, but not so big as to be ginormous.
- Clever cover design supports both portrait and landscape stand-up modes.
- Great battery life.
Not so great:
- Color e-ink screens are quite dark. Unless you’re basically in full sun you will probably want at least a little frontlight on all the time.
- The magnets on the cover are adequate for regular use but if you do anything a bit outside the ordinary (e.g. fold up the cover in “stand” mode and use that to hold the tablet) the device might pop out.
- The pen’s magnet could be stronger and there’s not a great alternative mechanism to hold it. It’s in your hand or (somewhat precariously) on the magnet mount.
- A smidgen heavy for extended one-handed holding (e.g. in bed).
- Pen/brush selection for drawing is a little limited.
Seriously, though, I’m really digging hard for cons. If you’re on the fence about an e-paper device and you value versatility, this is a good choice, especially if you think you’ll use the pen features. The other Boox options all have some compromises (different form factors, no frontlight, not pen-enabled) but this one really hits the sweet spot for me. And the configuration flexibility that you get between the OS’s built-in configurability and the Play Store access means that it beats out Remarkable and Supernote easily (for me, anyway). If you want absolute minimalism as a requirement, one of those competing products might be more to your taste, but it’s pretty easy to configure the Note Air to be as minimalist (or maximalist) as you want.
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Lately i’ve been mulling over an Android tablet over e-Ink. Anyone here have an android tablet? What’s the experience like? What do you use it for? What do you dislike about it?
I can primarily see myself using it for light browsing (videos and reading manga/ebooks). Lowkey interested if ones that have good pen support for drawing and note taking but is not a requirement.
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Oooh, yes! I’ve had a (refurbished) Samsung Tab S4 for years now, and I absolutely adore it. It comes with the S Pen, which uses Wacom technology for great accuracy in drawing and artwork-- that’s the main reason I chose it when shopping for a tablet. You can add a microSD card to boost its storage capacity, the Super Amoled screen display is absolutely beautiful, and you can get a case with a keyboard for more comfortable typing (or you can connect a portable keyboard using Bluetooth, and those are a lot less expensive.) Light browsing is a breeze with it.
Since it’s older than current models, it doesn’t have the biggest RAM memory, so if you’re shopping, I’d go with a newer version. Samsung offers a variety of specs and configurations so you can find something that best suits your needs. Another drawback is what I call Android bloat; as far as I understand it, the OS makes invisible backup files that will eventually eat up space on the main drive. I’m experiencing that now on my tablet (after over 5 years of use) and I’m not sure how to fix it myself. I may need to start calling around to phone-fix-it stores to see if they can handle it without doing a factory reset.
(Edit to add: if art’s your thing, I should probably mention that most of the popular apps like Procreate are Apple-only right now, but there are some good low or no-cost alternatives available for Android like Sketchbook and Krita.)
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I’ve had that the Tab S9 is a great, cheaper alternative to the S10. Based on your thoughts I might look into it
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I have a Boox Max 3 e-ink tablet/monitor. I got it used and it was still expensive.
It’s black-and-white.
It’s a good e-reader for larger-format books, such as most roleplaying rules and adventures.
It’s a buggy monitor, though, at least with the Mac. In text mode, text ends up jagged and unreadable. In graphics mode, white backgrounds end up medium gray.
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I’m looking for an accessible Linux-compatible laptop with an enormous solid-state drive.
I’m currently dual-booting macOS and Linux on a desktop. But that’s a pain if I can’t bring all the parts, can’t set up the monitor and all the disks, etc. I’d like something that’s easy to bring in the event of fires, or other fires.
Accessibility:
I’m sensitive to flashing lights, animation, bright screens, noise, etc. I’ve often struggled with screens which are just too ridiculously bright. I’m going to need to turn brightness down, and probably turn each color down too. Notebookcheck has data on some devices. I’m also going to need to avoid any 22 kHz squeal.
I’m going to need navigation keys such as home, page up, page down, and end. I’d like control and command/windows keys near the space bar, because remapping keys tends to break sticky keys and some diacritical marks.
I’m also going to need a Linux-compatible trackpad, which won’t require @#$% gestures.
There aren’t any local computer stores. And in the past, I’ve struggled with the pain bombardment in computer stores.
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