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 bought an IMAX film cell of Interstellar. It was a little pricey but I love the movie and I also shoot film.
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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. -
Oblivion Remastered. It turns out I don't really have the patience for inventory/weight management anymore.
There was some patch that sets the weight of everything to 0, so to can focus on the storyline.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
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.
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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.
Pro tip; learn to foam milk and people wil orgasm over your hot chocolates.
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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?
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Wow what do you do with 128GB or RAM?
Open two Chrome tabs at the same time.
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Wow what do you do with 128GB or RAM?
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
Silksong and Alan Wake 2 on the same day. Loving the former even though it is kicking my arse. The latter doesn't seem to run well on my series s - only about 4 hours in and had 2 hard crashes. I think it's running out of RAM.
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You can chameleon them out of the tube if you want to be fancy, I'm trying to save us some time, no dishes to wash, no hands to clean, yeah you look like you sucked off an oompaloompa, but I can still bust sick lines on thps 3+4 with a completely Cheeto stain free controller.
I bow down to your superior Cheetoing methods.
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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)
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
A Pico 4 (without the Ultra) used from eBay for 125€.
I absolutely do not need one. But it is fun (I know, not many people actually use theirs really and I thought the same for a long time.
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Fancy jar of honey from the grocery store for me. Tasted pretty good.
The recently re-released Taco Bell 7 layer burrito.
It was not.
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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
