Ask HN: What's something useful you've bought that you'd sorely miss?

Thermopen. Infinitely useful. Unlimited return on investment. Amortized over 10 years and at $10 of meat per day, I can perfectly cook $35,600 of meat for an initial investment of $105.

Just a few better steaks or roasts and it pays for itself.

Sonic toothbrush

Macbook Air with M1

Ebook reader with Android

Phone with USB-C and USB 3.0+ (can be connected to a hub, display + mouse + keyboard works) - I run full Node.js and use coder-server to code on it using browser as my access into the dev env

Unlimited mobile internet plan

When I left one job, I was so attached to my Thinkpad that I went out and bought one myself. 7 years old and it's still my daily driver.

I did the same but with SecureCRT.

It’s expensive but it’s very comfy.

I have some scripts to generate ssh sessions from consul inventory and it’s super cool.