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What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I need some holiday gift ideas (that I will probably gift to myself as well)!

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[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Here's an unusual one - an M.2 SSD to USB adapter.

Most, if not all, laptops come with SSD's nowadays, and they're usually pretty easy to take out from a laptop. Gather some old, broken laptops, and take out their SSD's. They're so much faster than USB flash drives, I prefer to use SSD's where possible. Plus, it helps with e-waste

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I wish I had the money to upgrade my laptops often enough that even my previous one had an m.2 ssd

[–] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"neat ideas for $50?"

first, throw away a $1,000 laptop

[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

-first, reuse the functional components in a broken laptop

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I help my friends and family with computer issues. I've gotten a number of laptops/PCs out of that.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is it for me. I don't go through many laptops on my own, but ask around your family? You can get quite a stack of e-waste pretty quickly. Especially if you've already been labeled the "tech guy" of the family

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Could even make this a little simpler - if somehow you're not using an SSD at least as the primary boot, please god change that immediately. $50 can easily get you 512gb, often even a TB.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

I did the same with laptop HDDs. So many cheap storages.

[–] v81@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd be careful with that suggestion. Some external readers will only read SATA M.2, Dube will only read NVMe M.2.

Ideally you'd want I've is each or one that will do both for maximum compatibility.

Though most drives do seem to be NVMe now.