After building my first pc I will never buy a pre built again. I might never buy a pc again (pc of thesius!)
At some point if you decide you want a significantly newer or more powerful CPU or GPU (for example), there’s a solid chance you’ll need to replace the motherboard or the power supply. At that point, we’re playing Theseus.
Then again, mine was a 10 year old budget build and my hobbies changed significantly, so you might not actually need to upgrade at all if your computing needs aren’t hungry.
Yeah, replacing the motherboard is when I begin to consider building a new one and repurposing my current one. Because if I’m replacing the mobo, I’m probably going to have to replace the CPU and RAM, because the sockets will be different. And at that point, I might as well just go ahead and replace the PSU too, so the rating is up to date. Now I can rip out my old GPU and move it over, but that would leave my old build without one… And what if I wanted to use it for something that would potentially need a GPU, like a 4k Plex/Jellyfin server? My cooler can probably be repurposed, at least?
you’re only saying that because you have the one computer
wait until you start running your own servers and whatnot. used prebuilts with some expansion room are the most cost effective
for my gaming pc, though? fuck no. just keep changing parts out as required
wait until you start running your own servers and whatnot
Oh yeah I forgot about that, I’ve already bought several computers by that metric.
I built my PC in 2003. I upgraded it 3 times. I still use the same case.
Expensive phones
Robot vacuum cleaner
yeah. We recieved one as a gift. It was ok for a while, but you had to keep the floor clear, and it was always getting stuck. Now with small kids. Forget about it.
Honestly one of the surprisingly good things I’ve gotten.
That said, I have one of the dumb ones. It doesn’t map my house and upload it to the cloud.
You can find these old / used / open box pretty cheap now.
I got a 2+ year old model that originally sold for like $1500 USD, for ~200.
I’ve got two of them, idk if they’ve worked right in the last few days. More often than not they give up after about 30 minutes, and I have to hunt them down and put them back on the charger so they can commit suicide the next morning.
Do they work offline or are they just small data broker agents?
The shit smearers.
You got a lot of shit just laying around on your floor?
The smart ones know how to avoid the shit now. I’m not testing that out tho lol.
LOL. I complained so much to support about removing dog shit from a vacuum they sent me another to shut up.
It is a very cheap model that randomly wanders around.
Easily one of my favorite appliances, up there with dishwasher and washing machine. My floors are always insanely clean because that thing drives around every day.
Same. Mine vaccums, sweeps and mops. I refill the water tank once a week and replace the bag once a month. Everything is so clean.
It has eaten a few naughty things though. It are a USB cable, it dragged my laptop off a sofa, and it entangled itself in a plastic sheet that was draped over my coffee table and dragged some acrylic paints and a litre of wash water off onto itself. Made a big mess. I also changed its spoken language to Vietnamese for a laugh, then when I changed my wifi router, I had to learn how to follow instructions in Vietnamese to reconfigure it to the new SSID.
Is it sending a map of my house to the CCP? Probably. Is that useful information for them? Probably not.
What is this magic machine, and how much? Also, does it come with stupid firmware that can shut it down permanently?
Mine is the Roborock Q Revo. I paid about $1000 AUD for it. A regular decent bagless vac costs about $400.
Aren’t you afraid it will mess up the piano?
Streaming services subscription.
I don’t know if I could do a new car.
I feel this. My car has a super straightforward drivetrain (2003 Miata) and pretty simple electronics that I can follow and understand.
Looking under the hood of modern cars, half the time it’s so enclosed, you just see plastic and once you get past that, it’s an intertwined rats nest of complicated components.
On top of that, modern interiors are just loaded with features I don’t need. Give me driving, climate and radio controls. I don’t need anything more.
Don’t even get me started on all the assist features. I’m driving. I’ll handle the wheel, thanks.
5 speed manual transmission, roll up windows, knobs for climate and radio, the key goes in the ignition. I need to keep this car running forever because i despise most new features ìn modern cars. Soon enough the fucking steering wheel is going to be touch screen.
Hook up an Xbox/PlayStation controller using Bluetooth XD
VR head set, a ton of cameras, and animated third person view. Unlock new skins the more miles you put on the car.
Cucumber, because fuck cucumber.
With the caveat that if it’s small and you pickle it, I’m down.
Besides that, and I can’t express this more clearly FUCK CUCUMBER. Infects everything it touches, permeates the air, tastes like old water, smells like… Foetid moss or watery algae.
I gather the hatred some people like me carry for pukecumber has a genetic root. https://share.google/vu5SRsVtMldMifFmu
This guy does not cucumber
This does not spark cucumber
I’m with you. I’ve tried it a bunch of times since so many people seem to like cucumbers, cucumber water, cucumber in sushi, cucumber gin, and whatever else. I don’t like pickles either. I just cannot cuke.
With the caveat that if it’s small and you pickle it, I’m down.
Good answer.
I gather the hatred some people like me carry for pukecumber has a genetic root.
if it’s small and you pickle it, I’m down.
Sorry but you are a big fan of cucumber.
As someone who loves both pickles and cucumbers, I couldn’t disagree more.
If I’m craving one and someone hands me the other, I’ll be upset.
Right‽ I love both, but don’t you ever fucking give me one when I asked for the other. I’ll cut a bitch.
I’m a big fan of vinegar. You could pickle all kinds of awful foodstuffs and I’ll eat them.
Apple anything
You must buy $1600 iphone to support failing US economy.
Please don’t look at all the alternatives that are 3 years ahead in tech and 1/3rd of the cost.
Yes, buy a secondhand google pixel, it’s better for privacy/security etc with grapheneOS installed. But if you like apple hardware, nothing wrong with a secondhand iphone
Ahhhh but those devices don’t have ‘the ecosystem’. You know, that bloated software that locks you into apple everything by making a handful of tasks marginally more convenient for the tech layperson.
TBH nowadays android is becoming just as guilty of the walled garden bullshit. We need mobile linux and we need it now.
Hard agree!
The only Apple stuff I use are phone, watch, headphones. I don’t use Google products or services and haven’t for a decade, so it’s my other good option. I don’t wanna fuck around with custom ROMs, and my last phone lasted almost six years.
Windows and Linux for computers. Unfortunately I have a game that’s extremely important to me that is impossible to run on Linux.
Even if you’re not in Apple’s ecosystem, I think iPhones are pretty great phones. Expensive yes, but they last a long time.
Smart home devices. IOT devices. Subscriptions to things I paid for at purchase (car stuff like upgraded performance or heated seats)
I don’t know if never.
But I don’t want a smartwatch.
I’ve never carried a watch in general and I don’t see the appeal of it when I carry a smartphone all day anyway.
I was in the same boat until I started running. It’s very nice to monitor heart rate so you can stick to a target heart rate.
I have been happy with my Garmin. It is functional without having to connect to anything, and data can be easily exported to a computer for more advanced processing. It is a handy GPS receiver that lets me monitor heart rate and log running metrics.
I freaking love wearing a wristwatch, but it’s most useful for stuff when you’re running around grabbing stuff trying to get kids out the door, or carrying a ton of stuff while setting up/tearing down a display for an event, basically situations not condusive to most smart watches where you have to do a gesture of some kind to wake the screen, you just want to quickly glance and continue
Also having been getting heavy into fitness (biking specifically but also some running and hiking), I get how cool having heart data and whatnot is, but ehhhh. Kinda not really necessary. I get handy GPS data from my phone and that’s sufficient. I can’t do anything meaningful with the heart data, but I can make very useful decisions with distance/time metrics! Or when lifting just knowing the weight I’m working with, how many sets & reps is more than enough
Onions. I fucking hate them like I hate MAGAs.
Sauteed onions are the sweet and rich basis of most every dish I know how to make. Even in desperate times, one can usually find an onion to bake. Onions are an incredible gift from nature and our ancestors, able to be cultivated in seemingly any habitable climate and soil, and harvested multiple times a year.
I understand, and you have my sympathy. ;)
I can handle them when they are deeply cooked into something, like a spaghetti sauce for instance. But gloppy onions on a burger is a non-starter, and raw onions on anything is truly offensive. Just fart really big at the dinner table.
You love onions so much, and I hate onions so much, that there has to be a difference in how they taste to us, how we perceive them. We know that there are genetic components to how people react to cilantro, asparagus, beans, and other foods, and maybe we are wired differently to taste them differently. After all, how can you truly compare tastes between individuals with scientific certainty?
I have a friend who feel this way about Cucumbers. Most people would say that cukes are low on the taste scale, down there with lettuce and celery. It’s not that they have no taste, but it is very mild and subtle. But not to my friend. He claims they have the most powerful taste of any vegetable (exactly what I say about onions), and even if they’ve been picked out of a salad, he can taste nothing but the cukes (again, me and onions).
He doesn’t understand how anyone could like the taste of cucumbers, and I’m the exact same way with onions, but neither one of us can understand how the other feels. There must be something genetic that keeps us from perceiving these foods in the same way that others do.
Oh, and to stir the pot further, I nearly equally despise green peppers, but absolutely love yellow, orange, red, and every sort of hot pepper. Only green peppers are forbidden, for all the same reasons as onions. They’re just unripened bitter peppers. Who’s eating unripe apples or oranges? So why peppers? Let them ripen, and they’ll be delicious.
Even onion soups?
I would never buy the subscriptions that most people buy (YouTube Premium, Netflix or similar). It’s just too easy to pirate.
- A car
- Subscriptions of any kind (except a good VPN)
- New clothes (I always buy used)
- If the app is paid or even freemium I don’t use it.
- Food delivery (Really? $40 for a fucking burger)
- Guess that leaves rent and renter’s insurance which I have to have if I want a roof over my head.
Why would you need a VPN? Is it for pirating content?
To look at recipes.
So I first learnt to use a VPN on holidays at my grandmothers lake house in the Middle of now where.
She showed me how to make VPN the traditional way and after that i went on a holiday to France where I perfected my way of making VPN.
That’s not really where the story starts though in this recipe I will show you all the tricks I have learnt. It all started 13.8 billion years ago…
Obviously.
Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, Hulu, Netflix, Xbox, PlayStation, Disney+, HBO, Tesla vehicles, dating apps,
No drugs tho ? Dudes raw dogging life.
Tickets to sports events. Yawn.
And concerts. I haven’t seen a concert since the 90s. I’m lucky to have grown up in the era of cheap tickets.
In the 70s, I worked in a record store that sold tickets for the local outdoor summer venue. Lawn seats were $3, and it took 45 minutes to get there. If we worked the day shift in the summer, and got off at 5, and that nights show wasn’t sold out yet, we could grab a $3 ticket, and be at the show before it started.
I was also a fan of the local orchestra, who played there every week, and never fully sold out. I went to a LOT of those shows.
Hadestown is coming to town, and I’d love to see it, but the cheapest seat in the last row, off to the side, is about $70, so they can go fuck themselves. Entertainment is for the rich. I’ll just pirate the show, if there’s a proshot of it. Besides, I love the original concept album much better than the Broadway version anyway. Hades is far better in the original.
Honestly even at the current going rates of $50-100 a ticket going to some good concerts is still a blast and still worth it. Also usually there’s going to be at least one opener and depending on the show they might have 2-3 bands performing. Personally I’m happy if I get to do 1-3 big concerts a year, and that’s really not that much to budget for even at $100/ticket, and some bands are freaking incredible to see live.
Also worth poking around to see if there’s any free/cheap music events near you or comparing with the cost of tickets to a music festival if you really want to be cheap/picky. There’s a couple of free music events I try to go to every year at nearish cities to me and it’s literally free entry and they’ll have a full lineup of bands for the full weekend. I’ve seen Bobaflex, Powerman5000, The Haunt, Black Stone Cherry, Taproot, Red Jumpsuit Apperatus, Fastball, Fozzy etc. all at these free music festivals
I used to work for a major record company, and part of my job had me handling backstage events at many concerts by many artists of every genre, so before my “retirement” from concerts, I had seen far more shows than the average person. Easily hundreds.
It wasn’t unusual for m to see three concerts a night - a classical concert in the early evening at the concert hall (over by 9), race over to the arena for a big rock show (probably miss the opener, but catch the headliner), then off to a small club for the the second jazz show after midnight (which is always the hot set). I would do that three or four times a month, with plenty of other one-show nights between.
It was a cool job, but I got pretty burned out on shows for a while. In the 21st century, I’ve been more into Broadway shows, which are also quickly pricing out of range.
I’ve been following this cool little band called High Fade, and I saw their post announcing their tour, but I was too late. Tickets were only $15, but they had been to my city 2 weeks earlier, and I missed them. It would have been my first non-Broadway show in decades. I hope they come back soon, they’re awesome.
I’m feeling like live music more lately, so I’m going to follow your suggestions, and start digging. If youre at a show, and see an old chubby guy rocking out next to you, say Hi.
In context that makes a ton of sense for why you don’t want to go to concerts anymore! Burnout is a bitch! But there’s something beautiful about once you’re past the burnout and try the thing again, where it’s been long enough it’s like trying it again for the first time except with the knowledge of what to expect and how to best enjoy it already there.
Rock on and enjoy yourself! 🤘
100%. I think I can finally go to a show again, and not feel like I’m at work.
Not that I’m complaining, it was literally the best job in the world, and I loved every second of it, but it does get tiring.
It took me a long time to view music as enjoyment again, and not as a way to make money. I got back to playing guitar during the quarantine, for personal satisfaction only, no plans to gig, and that’s allowed me find my musical passion again.
Thanks for letting me talk about it. I have nobody else in my life, who shares my love of music, that I can talk to about it.
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The maps are better in the print copy of National Geographic
NatGeo was the finest magazine on the planet for generations, then Fox got their hands on it and made it a religious rag, then sold it to some other company that managed to make it worse.
What an ignominious end to one of the greatest publications in the history of man, and that’s no exaggeration.
P*rn premium subscriptions
If you can afford to pay for the content you consume it’s generally better to pay for it, especially with regards to the porn industry which takes every scummy practice of traditional media and is 10x worse because it’s not really happening in the open
any printed magazine
For some hobbies printed magazines are still the Pinnacle of media related to the hobby, so as long as the media company behind the magazine hasn’t changed hands and significantly degraded quality (looking at you Kalmbach publishing!) paying for a magazine so you get something fun to look at in the mail each month/quarter/whatever can be quite enjoyable
