Couldn’t live without this cheap USB 3.0 switch that I have my keyboard/mouse/USB DAC plugged into so that I can swap all those between my pc and work laptop with the press of a button, instead of having to move the plugs between the two every time (and it auto switches if only one device is on)
If you haven’t already, Powertoys is a pretty useful tool. Some of the utilities I use a lot are Powertoys run, image resizer, color picker, and occasionally PowerRename. Paste as plain text and Text extractor are relatively new additions I probably would use more going forward.
And although it now also has Peek to preview files for the file explorer, I still prefer to use Quicklook for that.
Anker Nano 2 charger (65W PD) for the laptop: is tiny and just so much easier to take with you. Also in contrast to many oem chargers it has just a usb c port and no permanently attached cable. That means the cable you take with it is at the same time a general purpose usb c cable.
@piezzo Autohotkey, just to remap your keys or shortcuts to automating windows functions. It's very powerful. I use it to open applications, switch windows, run commands on the command line.
Mini shelf for headphones that clamps to the side of my desk. Wireless charging stand that trickle charges my phone to nearly full during the day. I rarely use the cable for charging and this has the benefit of being better for the battery slow charging. I also have an alarm go off at 80% full to take off the stand. Again to save battery health. Setup WOL so I can wake my PC up from afar so its ready by the time I get to it.
@Honeybee i tried to set up WOL several times, but i always failed. idk why because theoretically everything is setup correctly. But anyways, nice inputs!
There’s sometimes a few gothcas. Has to be enabled in the bios if on board lan. Enabled in the OS itself for when PC asleep. So in device manager for Windows and a config file for Linux
From memory It’s a broadcast packet so needs to be on the same subnet. Sometimes WiFi AP won’t pass it along.
Depends on your definition of cheap, but a small macro pad like Elgato’s Stream Deck was an absolute game changer. Helped me automate several work tasks and is overall the best PC accessory I’ve ever bought.
powershell/bash scripts combined with task scheduler/cronjobs for updating system sleep settings. I live alone and during the day I want the my PCs visible and accessible if I’ve touched them recently. During the day I have a script pop off that dims monitors at 45 mins, and in the evening one that pops off and dims monitors after 1 minute so my studio apartment darkness quickly before I fall asleep.
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