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More professional Bosch tools (Blue ones) for personal use. Maaaaybe I can justify a new drill, drillbits and a multicutter. Bosch professional tools are a true pleasure to use. I cant go back to cheaper consumer grade tools.
RTX 3090 for local LLM. I just pay for european hosted inference instead.
Holy shit, are you me?
Can't really justify the Frame, but will do anyway, when buying mail comes around.
Also got into 40k lore recently, but that is easier to withold, as I have no time and patience whatsoever to paint minis rn (especially not if the Frame comes around π ). Books do it now, I suppose.
Being debt free.
This is what everyone should be striving for. At least in America, a large percent of the population doesnβt have more than two paychecks saved.
I kinda want a true cargo bike. Not anything branded, I'd want to be able to replace electronics, but just having a huge box on an e-bike would be nice I imagine.
I rarely need to move more stuff than fits in a backpack, I have 2 big bike bags as well, and if it won't fit in any of these, chances are it's furniture that won't fit in a cargo bike either. I simply do not need it.
Getting my dryer fixed.
Retiring
I thought about the Steam Frame, and can definitely afford it, but I just canβt see enough VR software Iβm interested in. Iβve played through HL:A, and most everything else is very short experiences. Or beat saber, which is too fast for me.
This is my hang up on it too. There's just not been any interesting VR titles lately, and I havent seen any announcements either. Seems like a waste of money for a blade and sorcery machine.
A FUCKING HOUSE
I feel you.
I heard the banks where I live are thinking about providing multi-generational loans so people would be able to pay for them.
Amazing, thatβs literally serfdom π
Can I do that and not have kids
They'll find some next-of-kin to pin it on, I'm sure
They'll take the building and sell it to some other shmuck for a massive loan
Nothing like having your kids pay for the house you buyβ¦
You have inherited the family home...
...payments.
Don't worry kids. It will require you to be a slave only for a 30 years.
Upgrade my server/storage. I only have 1.5tb of storage total for everything including my music, shows, etc.
But I am able to manage it, so I can't really justify buying more storage for it when I technically don't need it.
A couple days vacation to go hiking. I haven't had a vacation in years, and I desperately need a break from my life. I'd be thrilled if I could just get on a plane, go across the country and see some mountains for 2-3 days and then come home, but I just can't afford it. Maybe next year, she says, for the 3rd year in a row...
Aw, man. We all need a break sometime. Maybe you can find something closer to home that can help you decompress?
π i want so bad but these times it makes no sense
This looks sick, what is it?!
Its a gpd win 4, a gaming pc in psp form β€οΈ
Edit: you can even dualboot win/linux.
Omggg I love it. Now I want one tooo
A pair of 20TB HDDs. My NAS is a janky RAID0 setup of a Raspberry Pi and 2x 12TB external WD HDDs that are about 3 years old at this point. I want a backup at this point but there's no way I'm paying for something that ridiculously expensive at the moment.
I also should've gone for at least 32GBs of RAM for my PCs but my cheap ass thought prices would never explode.
A virtual tabletop setup for D&D. A tv cut into a large table with space for players to have some food, drink, their sheets, and dice while putting their minis on an animated map in the center
I wanted to upgrade the RAM and maybe the storage in my laptop, but I kept putting it off because I was being cheap.
Oof. Same.
I figured "memory is cheap, I have time"
checks memory prices, weeps
Two years ago I bought 64gb of RAM that I didn't really need, felt guilty about it for a while, now I need it and I don't feel guilty!
I put off buy new hard drives for my NAS. I have an 8 bay and slowly filled it over the years with 6tb drives since they were about $200 at that time. Now that I ran out of that space I started replacing the 6tb one by one with 12tb which at the time was around $200 as well. Ive needed a new HD for years now but couldnt really afford it, but now I really need a new one and I REALLY can't afford it... this hobby is essentially dead at these prices. Ill continue to purge data and hope in a few years some miracle happens and prices drop again. I also hope these current drives hold out without issues...
Certain games, for example, Metaphor ReFantazio. Expensive even on sale and the whole "you do not own it despite paying for it" thing. Books and manga; I truly want to purchase a lot of books and manga, but it is just so expensive. Even on sale or secondhand. For example, I would love to purchase: No Game No Life, Smoking Behind the Supermarket, Witch Hat Atelier, and Hey Boy! Let's take a break? Manga/light novels.
Healthcare
A camera for bird watching, a new PC for playing games and VR, a second pad for stepmania, and more thing I can't think of right now.
The thing is that it is not as much that I can't justify those expenses as that the older I get, I realise that I'm fine without them, I don't need any of those things, so I keep postponing them.
Talkbox.
I'm decent with a synth (and bass guitar) but never really leaned into vocals. I would surely never use it once the novelty wore off.
but they're just so. damn. neat.
Nobody did it better than the late, great Roger Troutman (of Zapp and/or Roger):
I really want to do an electric conversion of a Geo Tracker.
One with a blown engine showed up on Craigslist for $1k two weeks before my daughter's due date.
Next time.
A new bicycle. But I can fix the one I've got for now.
Two 8TB HDDs to finnish my NAS....
I feel you. We hit the limit of our 2 TB in RAID1 like a year ago. Those were old, like some 10 years. I hold off, I thought we could make it until prices come down again. Could not, because one started failing. So I had to bite the bullet, bought two 8TB for 800 β¬ π. Was some 350β¬ one year ago, where I thought "Nah, those will get cheaper, we still can get by, by deleting some unused Linux ISOs every now and then" π.
It is so annying, this is the first NAS I have ever built myself, and the first proper redundant storage solution I will ever have had at home.
(I don't consider the old Intel NAS with four used 2TB drives in a raid 10 to be reliable anymore)....
Now all my media is on teo drives, one 2TB for photos, and one 4TB for other media.
I want a modern NAS that can deal with a loss of two drives without any loss of data.
I am also annoyed at TrueNAS, I have been planning on using TrueNAS since the start of the project, one key feature was that they were open source, now that they have closed the source, I don't believe I can trust them anymore. Currently considering Proxmox, or Open Media Vault.
I don't know how stable OMV is with ZFS, so I am feeling a but stuck....
My initial plan was actually to use OMV, set up LMV and have a 32bit LV across the six 8tb PVs and migrate as needed, but that just felt like a way too annoying nonstandard setup....
So I decided on TrueNAS tor their ZFS support, and now here we are...
The new Framework Desktop with 192GB unified memory, specifically for LLM inference. I've looked at the numbers and there's no scenario for me in which it's economically sensible to upgrade from 20GB gpu vram + rent EU API inference for larger models. Even if the tokens became more expensive by factor of 10 overnight, by the time the hardware paid for itself it would already long be obsolete.
It's an impressive machine, but I just can't justify the purchase.
Solar everything.
