what are some cheap/lazy pc lifehacks which improved your pc ux? something like a long headphone cables or specific shortcots

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  • Honeybee
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    1 year ago

    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.

    Thats my quick list that aren’t OS specific.

    • piezzo@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      @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!

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        1 year ago

        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.