What was your last “impulse buy” and was it worth it?
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
I collect old tech. I recently bought three things all from Apple: and 7th gen iPod Nano, a 1st gen iPod Nano, and an iPhone 3GS.
These things were honestly stupid rare in my country, since I never recall seeing an iPod in the wild at all, and an iPhone before the 4, so seeing these in my thrift store immediately made me buy them.
Even though neither of the iPods work, and the 3GS turns on, but with a dead battery and boots to an iOS 4 style recovery screen, I have to say it's definitely worth it just to have these as display items.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
A video game that I'll get around to playing in like a decade after I get through the other games in my back log but hey it was on sale lmao
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
4 packs of spicy ramen from the 7-11.
And yes. They were delicious.
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A Ninja Luxe Café Pro. I've wanted a machine like this at home since forever! And yes, the purchase was definitely worth it.
Beautiful
️ Almost makes wnna drink coffee again 
Sadly my home lacks counter space for such bulky appliance -
Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Today bought "bathrꝏm" tray to try organising objects scattered all over desk . Black with white marbling
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Wow what do you do with 128GB or RAM?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Last impulse buy was literally just delivered today. An entry-level gaming monitor (around $200) and a desk-mount for a laptop + monitor combo (around $30-40). I recently moved so I didn't have a monitor yet
Had a quick gaming session with the monitor and it was worth every penny! The games I play do require low display lag so 1 vs 3 frames of delay actually does matter...
The desk-mount however was only a good idea on paper, the desk my landlord provided doesn't have a place to mount it
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Retro gaming thing the size of a game boy from Temu. Probably not great for the planet, but it was £23...
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
wrote last edited by [email protected]ITT: a lot of folk buying tech. Including me.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
I went to a café and sat down with the book I'm currently reading and bought a coffee and a crêpe. It was very much worth it! I'll do that again.
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ITT: a lot of folk buying tech. Including me.
Don't forget about the textbook collection too.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
A Skil Electric screwdriver.
I thought it was gimmicky but it was $20 about 8 years ago and I thought it might be useful sometimes, I use the every living shit out of that thing to this day, and it's still going -
Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Baulders Gate 3. No, I can't stay awake more than like 10 mins if I play
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Digital copies of the entire run of the Girl Genius webcomic. Very worth it.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Registered for a fan run Nancy Drew -esque 3 day event in WA for 2026. Went to the one this year and it was a blast, registered right before it filled up.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Hollow Knight. I had a twenty dollar gift card to game stop and told them to recommend something.
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GeForce 5090. Had been saving up for last few years, it came in stock and I bought without thinking much about it.
It’s worth it because it’s fast. Not worth it because it was expensive and warms up the room too much. I really underestimated how hot it would make my room.
I do regret buying it. Since now I’m short on cash.
I want to build a separate exhaust for my PC for this reason but I know it wouldn't look good.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Got a little bonus and splurged on another unit of Eliminators and a Phobos Librarian for my Angelic Inheritors army, “The Baal Hammers.“ No regrets.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
A case of raspberry iced tea, and local pickled onions for the Smokies I went to the store to get for dinner
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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.
