Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Silksong. Definitely worth it.
Same, but I’m not sure yet. Added it to the backlog of shame.
Same, but i haven’t even played the first one. I gotta stop doing that…
Same here, but I must say the platforming is a lot harder than I was expecting. Diagonal pogo is really messing me up. I can’t consistently get past those pogo bouncy fruit ball things and I’m stuck now. Hopefully it clicks soon.
My son works at a motorcycle dealer. He sends me a pic of a bike they just got in. A CBR1000RR-RSP. Well after putting on my boots and asking him if it’s for sale, they said they would sell it to me. The person who ordered it had to back out so if I could make it down there it was mine. I hopped on my 2001 CBR and headed to the store where I bought the bike. And to answer the question, YES it was definitely worth it. That motorcycle is the absolute hands down smoothest machine I have ever been on. It’s like riding a stick of butter down a teflon pan. I still can’t believe I own one as I honestly never even thought I would ever even see one in the wild.
Awesome.
215 horsepower out of a street legal, featherweight 1 liter NA engine is ‘normal’ now I guess, but it still boggles my mind. And its low inertia! If you sent that thing back in time, engine designers’ heads would explode.
Totally agree. The amount of hp this bike has blows my mind. But the thing like I said is just how smooth it is in the delivery and execution. The shifts are smooth and effortless, and the throttle is just smooth. You can dial in the power you want with different settings, so you can tone it down for things like riding in the rain. It’s so much different than my 01, which was just raw power and no electronic goodies other than fuel injection. I love having both, and have a ton of miles on the 01 which I am looking forward to matching with the new bike.
This one? Looks great. https://www.cycleworld.com/bikes/honda-cbr1000rr-r-sp-first-look/
That’s it. I got a 25 model, but it looks basically the same. They tweaked some internals from 24 to 25, but that’s the bike. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for me, and I jumped on it. Definitely my largest impulse buy ever. I figure my friends all think I am having a mid life crisis, but it’s just a dream bike of mine that I never would have fathomed I would have a snowballs chance in hell of owning.
I guess it was a new camera bag. I didn’t need it, but I wanted it. Turns out, having a bag with a long enough strap to go cross body makes it a lot easier to lug around my camera, a handful of lenses, and my tripod for a few hours while I walk around. Totally worth it.
How many bags do you have now? I’ll confess I’m a serial manybagger. The damned GAS FOMO gets me almost every time.
This is the only bag I’ve bought. The first one came with my old camera, a basic Nikon bag. It was never meant for the gear I have, I’ve just been making it work.
It’s always a thrill to get something and it works and feels worth it. Enjoy your new gear!
Do you have a bag for your bags?
Oh, I have plenty of bags for my bags.
Stuff for my homelab. Not worth it, it’s just toys for adults
I did that for almost 15 years, now I’m running a company developing embedded electronics using them daily.
Hey so cool! If you would like to drop the name of your company please do :)
Sure thing, if that’s allowed: 8volt.at
We’re doing custom builds for research as well as exhibitions and develop new machines and parts for industry ;)
I need to set up my NAS…
I bought a whistle that claims to be the loudest whistle on the market.
It is loud as shit and looks cool on my life vest.
A slice of cake and a coffee for desert. Yes it was worth it
A New! Nintendo 3DS XL because I did not like the form factor of my Nintendo 2DS (also an impulse buy). I bought a bunch of cheap games and I’ve been playing Pokemon Sun a bit.
Also bought an e-bike. I haven’t had a bike in a while and I used to walk around the neighborhood or to the store all the time. I moved to an area that the grocery store is pretty far to walk to and it’s very hilly. The e-bike is great for going up those hills. It’s a pedal assist (no throttle acceleration) and I try to minimize how much I use the actual assist so I can get a workout too. It’s been great and I’ve taken it to the grocery store and library a few times. I bought it when I did because I knew tariffs were going to affect the pricing. The company recently said they are raising prices due to tariffs, so I think it was a wise decision.
2x64GB DDR5 6000, 1.25V:
10/10, would bust wallet again. Once I get wallet again.
Wow what do you do with 128GB or RAM?
Open two Chrome tabs at the same time.
Run a giant LLM in RAM, heh:
https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5
Seriously though, I had 32GB, and was having problems with all sorts of media work, complilation, stuff that would grind my system to a crawl constantly from the paging. So I wanted to replace them with 64GB sticks, but the 128GB modules were low voltage, low latency and not that expensive in terms if $/GB… and I realized it was enough space to basically host a reasonable quantization of Deepseek at home, at (as it turns out) close to reading speeds.
I like having a RAM drive to put certain games on, too. Not that I game a ton these days… Hence dangrous’s meme.
Bought trackball mouse
My workflow is not as fast as before but it is so much more comfortable, definitely worth it.
I had to reconsider. My thumb joint was grouchy after a few months.
Edit: my clone reminds me he absolutely loves his neu-logitech-trackpad thing he uses. He likes that it’s got three buttons instead of two and a dinky little rolly-nub, and he wouldn’t part with his without a fight (and he’s trained in pistol, c-7 in ‘party mode’, sword, staff, hands, and impolite words, so he’ll have it even after the fall of society)
I really like the Kensington Expert mouse for this reason. Expert Mouse Wired Trackball
I use my index and middle fingers to manipulate the ball (together or alternating scissor-walk like fashion), and ring finger to turn the wheel. Thumb for left click (bottom left button), and ring finger to right click (top right button). The hand doesn’t move at all, with movement all in the fingers.
It freaks out visitors when they try to use it, but it’s a life saver for click intensive workflows. So much so that I would have a second as a backup. My only complaint for it if I had one is that the scroll wheel can get a little loud with aggressive scrolling in a single direction, like trying to get to the bottom of a page.
Ah yeah, there no real place to rest the thumb, but since I use my keyboard like 80% of the time it does not matter too much.
I’ve been using trackballs for 25 years. What do you think of the M575? I’ve got a fleet of old and tired M570s that will need replacement soon.
I was like you. Both are great your over thinking it. 575 I think has a slightly less rounded curve but trust its nothing to worry about. I swap between both with ease. Matter of fact. I love the 570 sometimes but my hand arch started to get worn out after hours of use. 575 has less of an arch and relaxes the wrist a tad more.
I got an MX Ergo. It’s godfuckingawful. The M570 looks back at you so your thumb rests forward of the centerline of the ball. The Ergo looks to the side like a lobotomized beluga so your thumb rests on the centerline of the ball reducing the comfortable range of vertical travel. It also developed a nasty case of leprosy, the skin started to blister and peel, so rubber wrapped devices from Logitech are dead to me forever. I just…I’ve been soldering new click switches into my little herd of 570s because Logitech is really bad at electronics and they used inappropriate switches that wear out prematurely so I’ve been fixing it instead of buying anything else from them because I am a severely petty man but they’re starting to fail in ways I don’t know how to fix.
I’ve got a bad right click on my 570 and it’s years old. That’s part of what caused me to get a 575. That and work I needed something good rather than a traditional mouse.
Edit: get a 575 you will make concessions but given your ergo trust me it’s worth doing. Retire those 570s!
Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260. Stuck Linux mint on it (because I’m a Linux noob). £170, cheap.
It’s pretty great. I just wish I could get a consistent touchscreen experience because I like to fold the keyboard back and use it like a tablet in bed. It works like a charm on Firefox, but outside of that, the touchscreen is hit or miss. I just want it to work like an iPad or Android tablet in terms of navigation (swipes, long presses, etc.)
Overall though I’m pretty happy with it. Excellent for torrenting and file management and mostly lightweight shit.
Try running GNOME on it. It has pretty good touch support.
I’ve actually already tried Gnome, which definitely works the best with touch. It seems to lack the amount of system settings that the standard cinnamon DE has though.
Sure, default GNOME is pretty barebones, most people use GNOME Tweaks as well for additional settings and some amount of extensions depending on your workflow.
In principle, i would have prefered that this was all built in, but practically, it works really well, for me at least.
KDE gestures?
I know they reworked it completely a couple of years ago, but I’m an insane person who uses XFCE in touch mode so I wouldn’t know lol.
Made a lateral upgrade from GTX 1080 to 6600XT. The performance is more or less the same but compatibility with Linux is much better for gaming. Games finally “just work” and was totally worth it for me
Mildly interesting, as I just did nearly the same, going from a GTX970 to a Radeon 8570. Did not have the same “it just works” experience however. But I blame that more on my lack of Linux knowledge than the video card.
I have a GTX970 but upgrading it would mean I have to upgrade the motherboard, the rams, etc etc etc
You dont really have to, but you would probably bottleneck a new card pretty badly if the cpu is from around the same timeframe as the 970
it was all pretty sweet back in 2013
No argument there! I also had a 970 back when it was new. Upgraded to a 2070 and I am still on that one. The 970 was pretty great, even got two of them at one point, then found out how useless SLI was and gave it to my mother lol.
I’ve still got a GTX-1080 in service on my “HTPC.” Which…is starting to be a problem, honestly. It’s getting to where that card is too old to support things, like Bazzite’s HTPC system apparently involves things the GTX-1080 can’t do. It’s a kickass graphics card but it’s also a decade old and software has moved on. And I hate that shit, computer hardware outlives itself too damn often. I’ve got a literal pile of perfectly working ten year old computers.
A small 8 inch laptop that can fit in my everyday bag. It hasn’t arrived yet, so I’m not sure if it’ll be worth it.
It’s my usual birthday purchase impulse, the one time I allow myself to splurge for something for no other reason than “I want” :)I hope to use it to wean myself off of phone apps and have something that is more under my control while I’m outside.
may i ask which model it is? im looking for something similar lol
Sure! It’s this one:
https://x-plus.store/products/n150-netbookOf course windows is going to be replaced the moment it arrives :)
Of course windows is going to be replaced the moment it arrives :)
I bet people will look at you weird when you pull that thing out in a coffee shop
My first 3D printer. It’s been fun so far!
Tbh: I hate your printer to the guts. Everything about it.
Why?
After years of tinkering with various more or less self build ones, I finally caved in last autumn and bought a P1S, having enough of tinkering. I needed a machine that works but couldn’t justify the X1C, even though most things I do are more technical than deco/toys.
Shortly after Bambu started that firmware crap. While the customer protection legal threads which I took part in have very likely stopped the worst of it and brought the “developer mode”, it’s still crap and well, it was a stupid idea to buy BL,yes. (Even though my machine does work very well so far…besides the shitty AMS)
Then, when I just managed to get less salty about that, the Centauri Carbon came out. Which would have been the perfect machine for me if only…I had known about it back then (none did). It does what the P1S does not do well, it is basically everything what I would have needed out of a X1C. God damn it.
To get over that I needed to back the Snapmaker U1 as a possible replacement for the P1S. Even though I know it will require extended tinkering to get it to print what I want it to do. Argh! (Or maybe I get a Centauri afterwards and risk divorce over it?)
So I hate your printer and my only solace is that you will spend much more money on filament than you will on your printer. Oh fuck,I did that,too. Damn.
(Seriously, though: Welcome to the club. It’s one of the most marvelous hobbies I ever took up. Especially if you learn how to construct yourself in CAD - which is easier than one would think. And btw: Google Spoolman and MPCNC :D)
A pair of GMRS walkie-talkies (~$70) an associated license (~$35) a better whip antenna for the first (~$12) and a magnetic mount antenna (~$35) that I threw on a high shelf in a closet or could move to a vehicle if desired.
They can hit a publicly open but privately owned repeater about 20 miles away, which has been interesting. Means that I can radio contact over about a 50 mile radius which covers my city pretty well.
There’s a lot of chatter on the repeater, mostly from “prepper” types who want to be prepared if the cell system crashes. They’re kind of politically right leaning, which sucks but hey, it’s their repeater so I don’t participate a lot.
The radios I got have GPS sharing so they’re nice for any backwoods hikes as you can pinpoint each other and that’s a nice safety feature.
Are they worth it? I guess so. $150 to get fairly deep into a new hobby isnt budget breaking for me, but the actual usefulness is kinda limited when cell towers are most everywhere, even in places like campgrounds of most major cities
I’ve gotten really into radio over the past year or so. The most practical usage I’ve gotten is a few FRS radios (licence free walkie talkies, like what we used as kids basically) at a renn fest that has no cell service and at a pride event when someone didn’t wanna take their phone to a porta potty (better to risk accidentally drop a $10 radio into the toilet than an expensive smart phone with all your pictures).
Our RenFest is also super spotty with cell coverage, so that’s nice. GMRS uses the same bands as FRS, so they’re compatible, but GMRS allows 1) Removable antennas for better coverage 2) More power (FRS 2 vs 50 watts on GMRS) 3) Repeaters for very wide coverage (I hear people talking from 60+ miles away on a local repeater once in a while).
The radios are more expensive, starting around $20 but the benefits are pretty nice.
You are not legally allowed to use GMRS if you or someone in your immediate family doesn’t have a license and I would never ever ever dream of violating the FCC rules. I would never. I would never ever have FRS radios use more bandwidth and/or power if their firmware allowed. I would never use them without call signs if I did, but I wouldn’t do it because I don’t!
Lol me either.
Oh buddy, let me tell you about amateur radio… If you’re having a good time on gmrs, consider exploring the ham hobby. So much fun. There’s a lot more landscape to explore than just gmrs gives you. And welcome to the world of RF!
It was the “no test” part that convinced me. I started looking into getting a technician ticket, but sparing a day or five for a class and test is laughable at the moment. Maybe when my life slows down a little (uproariously obnoxious laughter).
A Ninja Luxe Café Pro. I’ve wanted a machine like this at home since forever! And yes, the purchase was definitely worth it.
Pro tip; learn to foam milk and people wil orgasm over your hot chocolates.
Beautiful ‼️ Almost makes wnna drink coffee again ☕ Sadly my home lacks counter space for such bulky appliance
my cousins had something similar.
