I don’t have much, but I REALLY love my bomber jacket that I bought a year ago, looks good and makes me look good, I think.
Edit: after 2 edits that title still needs adjustments…
I’ve bought a few things recently, but one that really sparks joy is a 3DConnexion space mouse. Bit of a learning curve, but now that I’m used to it, the QoL improvement in navigation while 3d modeling is huge.
My wife’s insurance company get this, requires, we track our exercise/activity. Because it’s a free country and all. If we don’t the insurance skyrockets. To that end her employer gave us money to buy a fitness tracker. I used that and added some extra to buy a Withings fitness tracker. It looks like a normal kind of elegant watch but also tracks fitness. I friggin love this thing. Best watch I’ve ever owned. It’s called a Scan Watch and has a very tough, I think it’s called Ruby glass. An elegant look, a low profile( because I bang it on everything).
It’s not cheap at all, but it’s one of the best things I’ve bought recently that I’m really satisfied with.
Fortunately, we don’t have that insurance anymore, but hey, at least I got a cool watch.
Pay a local on-foot letter carrier, cycle aficionado, or hiking enthusiast to carry it around with them.
Fuck these guys. Luigi did nothing wrong.
Yeah, like on Big Bang Theory. Strap it to a motor or something. So glad that is over with. I mean we could have said no, but the cost to do so was astronomical.
Jesus. fuck insurance companies.
nice watch though.
I know right. At first they gave us a free fitness tracker. It was the crappiest POS you’ve ever seen. Every time I put it on, it was like a ball and chain. As soon as I accumulated the required yearly steps, I ripped that thing off. Free friggin country.
I bought the Remarkable 2 about two years ago, but since I had to get a replacement, I guess it counts. I love the e-paper’s magical feeling in general. Remarkable in particular amazes me with the openness e.g. giving me SSH access to the Linux-based system. I wish they’d focus on customization, tinkering and stability, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Can you expand on the openness aspect a bit.
I got the Boox Note 3 a few years ago, because it runs Android and I could install Syncthing on it.
I didn’t realize that the remarkable was able to be accessed.
Can you install whatever you want?
I ordered a PineNote last week.
I was thinking about purchasing a remarkable 2 or a Boox Note Air 4C before but in the end I would have to tinker with all of them to get a setup that meets my needs so I just went with the most open variant.
I hope the hardware is up to the task but just reading through the specs it seems pretty similar to the remarkable 2.
Out of interest, what happened to your first remarkable 2 that you had to replace it?
It took a bath in ice tea for a few hours and it suffered even more when I stupidly connected it to the PC before I saw the wet folio and bag. I probably would’ve looked into other alternatives, too, if I didn’t receive a replacement offer for ~130€. I love it, but it does have many faults, that for some people may be unacceptable for the price. But that seems to be the current state of e-ink tech in general.
For 130€ I would have taken the remarkable 2 as well, unfortunately used offers start at 350€ here. As for new, the PineNote is actually cheaper than the remarkable 2.
A new chair, I had a gaming chair that killed my butt and back (was cheap and had it for 6 years) now I got a true ergonomic chair, and wow! I didn’t think the difference would be as big as it is. I didn’t want to sit by my computer because of the old chair. This one follows my body movement in the back so I can stretch and move without feeling restricted.
Here is a link to it, but I bought mine from a refurbish store that fix up office furnitures from companies and resell them so I got it for less than half the price and it is like new. https://www.steelcase.com/products/office-chairs/think/
I’m enjoying the Steam Deck I bought last month. I was on the fence about getting one for a long time because I already have a decent gaming PC, but I’ve used the Deck a good bit more than my gaming PC since getting it. I thought for sure I would have put Bazzite on it by now, but I’m still enjoying it with stock SteamOS.
A pack of 4 glass panels for the whopping cost of 5€99 shipping included, to make a glass painting pallet:
Re: your edit, what you want is: “What recent purchase do you really love?”
But it could be worded a number of ways.
Mine is a quantity of One Piece trading cards cause they’re fun to look at.
More practical: a split sprayer / pouring oil dispenser for cooking oil
Glow in the dark dbrand skin. I can draw dongs on the back of my laptop with light…
Worth every dollar
Just recently got a hair band to help me keep back my long hair. I was originally using my over the ear headphones, but decided I need something dedicated to it. My mom, thinking she’d help, sent me some stuff that I was absolutely not interested in, like some sort of beanie hat thing or sports men’s camp headband thing, trying to be helpful, but I just ended up getting a Camila Paris headband that I really like.
Bought and old desktop to use as a home server and media storage. The wife and I use it a low pirate media that’s not on Netflix
We do the same thing, except everything that IS on Netflix, and everywhere else…
I’ve lately started using more paper notebooks for various projects. Recently bought a new sketchbook. Will go buy a paper almanac for the next year today.
I’m a huge tech nerd, but I don’t think going 100% digital works for me. Also noticed that one of the ways I can deal with ADHD is to stop messing around with computers and do things by hand.
You’re looking for -
What object, that you recently bought, do you really love?
“What love object bought you?”
FTFY.
I don’t think you need the commas, because it’s a restrictive clause (i.e. the sentence wouldn’t maintain its meaning if you removed it).
Yep but no matter which way I wrote it, someone on Lemmy would tell me it was wrong.
Bawbag 😂
Logi Pebble Mouse 3 M350s. It can connect via bluetooth with three devices.
I don’t need a hammer drill a huge amount in my work so I always thought my old, corded Hilti was perfectly sufficient for the job. Well it broke beyond repair a while back which was a bummer but I then bought a cordless 18-volt Makita hammer drill and oh my… I didn’t realise what I was missing.
I had to buy a handful of components so I guess it counts
Built my first PC recently. Mostly it’s my wife’s old components after a few years of upgrades stuffed into a new case, but it’s new to me. Pretty much just had to buy the case, a hard drive, PSU, CPU cooler, and a couple fans.
It’s not a powerhouse by modern standards (though it was pretty beefy for its time when my wife first built it) with a pre-ryzen amd CPU, and a 970, but it’s still running most of what I’ve been throwing at it (it helps that most of my steam library is 10+ years old)
We’re a little short on space in our house, nowhere to squeeze in another desk for a computer so I built it in a HTPC case and I’ve been gaming on our 70" TV with surround sound with our hue lights synced up to it, and it’s been pretty sweet, and astonishingly it hasn’t burst into flames from being crammed in my entertainment center with limited airflow.
It’s nice to be back to PC gaming, and I’m having almost as much fun tinkering with it and getting everything set up how I want it. Still a couple more tweaks to make, gotta figure out how I want to set up KODI, need to get a decent wireless keyboard and mouse, maybe a couple more controllers, find a way to enable HDMI CEC control so I don’t need to fiddle with the PC and receiver volume separately, etc. and then maybe some more upgrades when budget allows
