For me it would have been buying the steam frame (but I am still in the waitlist). Also, I recently gotten into the 40k lore, but there is no way I can find the time and physical place to get into wargames.
Retiring
Being debt free.
This is what everyone should be striving for. At least in America, a large percent of the population doesn’t have more than two paychecks saved.
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 😅). Books do it now, I suppose.
I thought about the Steam Frame, and can definitely afford it, but I just can’t see enough VR software I’m interested in. I’ve 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.
😭 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 ❤️
Edit: you can even dualboot win/linux.
Omggg I love it. Now I want one tooo
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.
I’ve got a Ford Ranger I wanna do the same to. Eventually…
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?
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.
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.
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…
In 1995: a virtual boy
In 2015: an Oculus Rift
In 2026: a Steam Frame
I’m sensing a pattern, here.
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.
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.
So many fountain pens.
A new NAS.
A new keyboard (my wife took my mechanical board so maybe I’ll actually get this. The keyboard maxes at three simultaneous keys and it’s killing me).
Everything to make my basement game room a reality.
A desk (currently using a borrowed old folding table from the in-laws).
Several books (like the annotated Lord of the Rings).
Resin 3D printer.
Instead of any of those I’m saving for an anniversary gift for my wife and to replace our cutting board which is about to split.
Several books (like the annotated Lord of the Rings).
I’ve been browsing thriftbooks.com for cheaper books to buy. It’s a clunky site with slow shipping but you can get good deals on lots of books.
Oh for sure. Thriftbooks and abebooks are my go-tos. It’s just $125 for a set of books is hard to justify when I’ve already got copies of other versions
So many fountain pens.
Get something you like that can fit a JoWo #6 nib and just get a number of nibs and stick whatever nib type you need into said pen! That’ll cover a lot!
You can do this with most Lamy pens, too, which is where I wound up apparently by sheer happenstance. Do I have a $12 steel nib shoved into my Dialog right now beacuse Reasons? Why, yes I do. (If I sold its stock nib, which is currently safely tucked away in a box, I could probably use that to finance four or five new pens.)
Unfortunately I’m at the other end of the pen. I’ve got a dip pen with different nibs for that, just thicken the ink as needed.
I want to know how the different pens feel in my hand. I want to see their shiny lines on my desk. I want the magnetic click clack of a Monteverde Axis right next to the sleek and unique Pilot MYU.
