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.
One of Fuji’s medium format cameras.
I’d also need to upgrade my storage if I got one. Just way too expensive.
Oh hundreds of things.
A new bike to replace my 8 year old one. I can afford it, but I can’t justify it. I will probably cave once winter boredom sets in or there is a black friday discount. I’ve been sitting on it for about a year.
Also a new car. Also sitting on that, waiting for the price to drop to 25K or less, probably next year. my current car needs tons of work, so I have been stretching it out because I didn’t want to drop 5K on a 10 year old car that I was going to replace soon anyway.
I’m in the same place with my bike. I’ve been wanting to upgrade to electric for years now and they’re cheaper than ever. I’ll probably go through with it in the spring.
I intended to buy a server for my game dev stuff like my locally hosted ForgeJo, file server, etc. I currently have a scrappy little box made from spare parts.
But they’re so expensive now and I don’t want to blow my entire budget on a new one when the current one “works”.
This summer I setup a homeserver for immich / jellyfin / arr with this this Bad boy. I found it close to 300 euros, however this is barebone, and with the cost of ram this hikes the cost quite a bit. ( Hard drives were scrapped from old pc and laptops)
A car. I live a few kms away from the nearest town and drive a borrowed one (with a horrendous gas mileage…)
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.
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5 years ago, I’d be out every night systematically removing flock cameras. I have the skills, the tools, and the experience avoiding getting caught. Instead I told myself these things weren’t going to happen and these skills will ever bring me joy. So I cleaned up, got married, finally went to college. I have a career I’m dedicated to and it isn’t even dubiously legal.
I see why we aren’t out burning things in the streets now. I can’t drive 5 over without worrying that a traffic stop will land my wife in alligator Auschwitz for being the wrong color. I can finally afford to buy food for my kid and it’s subject to the whim of people who want my kind dead. I don’t care about everyone else enough to risk what little I actually have.
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.
Literally anything. Clothing. A bed. A UPS so I can safely update my six year out of date BIOS that is causing issues snd the constant, random power outages here don’t make me feel safe enough to just do it whenever. A car. Insurance for a car. (Or being able to afford to live in a city with good public transit) Gender affirming care. A place to live. Privacy. Safety.
Oh yeah and my cancer meds that I am forced to live in poverty for and the threat of losing then dangles over my head if I lose my medicaid. Which is possible now.
Hospitals tend to have uninterrupted power supplies.
Also motorbikes are cheaper and cooler than cars.
Then again if your health isn’t great maybe a bike is a bad idea.
Hospitals tend to have uninterrupted power supplies.
…what does this have to do with anything?
You can bring your PC there to update the bios if its portable enough.
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Solar everything.
I have been putting off buying new SSDs to replace internal HDDs that I’ve had for at least 5 years. They’re starting to fill up with crap I’ve been hoarding over the years and quite frankly, I don’t want to pay x3 or x4 times the amount for something I know doesn’t cost that much.
It’s all just flash NAND. That shit is everywhere. They can’t tell me it costs $400 to make one 4TB 'cause I know it doesn’t. That’s utter BS price fixing.
I’m praying to Primus that my HDDs can outlast this hell hole we’re in rn and at least give me the chance to replace just one of them.
Don’t even get my started on NAS like Synology. That’s a whole different rage bait.
In 2017 I built a new computer. But graphics cards were very overpriced right then because of bitcoin mining. So I bought a used graphics card from my roommate and figured I’d update it later when the prices of graphics cards “went back down.” It never happened, I’m still using that same graphics card from 2015.
To: Santa
A VR headset, an AMD GPU for my PC, a 4TB SSD, an electric car, my own house, a clothes dryer, a dishwasher machine, a recumbent exercise kit, a pull up bar, new shoes that aren’t falling apart and don’t hurt my feet, a bedframe for my floor mattress, an electric blanket for winter, my $700 per month medications I had to give up, and a partner (they love me).
Kind Regards, Zarobi
I’ve wanted to visit Italy for about 20 years now. Maybe some day. There’s always some other need for the money and time.
