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Steamdeck. Had some cocktails and bought it, got it and had buyers remorse. Figured I’d give it a shot anyway.
Love of gaming rekindled, now I don’t doomscroll during downtime at work.
Installing bazzite tomorrow if I get around to it.
edit: installed bazzite in a few hours this morning, zero to hero. If you fuck with the penguin you’re going to want to do this. Don’t forget to backup your saves for games that don’t do cloud save. I have fast internet and most of my games are also installed on my desktop PC so I didn’t worry about backing up any of that.
Unsure about the experience on steam deck but on my PC Bazzite runs like a charm! Installed Proton-GE for extended compatibility and have yet to run into a game that doesn’t work out of the box or has significant issues. Even the very niche game Sprocket runs great!
Same. I had a Switch but there were too many games I couldn’t play, and my PC can’t handle anything beyond Stardew Valley.
Got a second hand Deck and I can hardly believe how good this thing is!
what are you trying to play? I’ve been happy with an Anbernic for classic arcade games
Trying to play Gnome3, honestly. The gaming side works fine for me I just want to use the whole computer.
I’m on the fence. I get a 1 hour lunch, already own a switch, but never use it. I know the deck has all my games already, I just cant with the current price.
I had pretty much stopped using my switch before I got the deck. There just weren’t enough compatible games to keep me interested. I ordered a deck impulsively and, like people often say, I fell in love with video games again. In absolute numbers it’s a big investment, but I’ve gotten like 3000 hours out of it so far. I love being able to wake it up, play 20 minutes of a AAA game, then suspend the game and come back later.
Suspending a game is something I hadn’t considered. Must be good for travel or short bursts
Check eBay for the non OLED version, you could find one at a good discount especially if you buy a 64 GB
Had a look, everything is still high 200’s. I might just get a refurbished that comes with warranty
Curious, why did you put bazzite on it and not keep the default steamos?
Laptop replacement for (infrequent) travel, limitations of desktop SteamOS, because it’s neat.
$4k on a classic luxury car that needed work.
I’m $17k into it and it’s been in my garage long enough that I can’t start it without draining all of the fuel.
It’s really lovely, but good lord luxury classics are expensive to restore. I restored and drive an old truck for $6k and a lot less heartache.
I bought a $600 vintage, late 70s turntable that’s just beautiful, pristine condition. Tbf I paid $25 on an online auction. I keep going up to it every couple of hours and just staring at it in awe. Now I need to buy a receiver and speakers to match it
$25 for a $600 item? That doesn’t sound irresponsible at all. Or even frivolous.
It was irresponsible of them to sell it so cheaply
More recently, probably a wireless handheld controller for my model railway.
Model railway is a hobby for people with lots of time, space, and money. I generally fall short on two of those, although lately there is a bit more disposable income to go around. Last year I was able to splurge on the control setup that I always wanted, which is a stationary controller - basically you sit at a table and control the trains with two rotary controllers and a touchscreen for a number of other things. Looks a bit like this.
But since it’s stationary and my layout is fairly big, sometimes it can be a bit cumbersome to test something that’s five metres away. So I decided to also splurge on the matching wireless handheld controller, an Android-based device with another rotary controller and the ability to control almost all aspects of the stationary device.
Did I need it? Hell no. If I had waited a few more months, a perfectly suitable free smartphone app would have been available that I could have used for the purposes intended. But am I loving it? Fuck yes. Irresponsible to boot, but no regrets, not for one second.
I bought some googly eyes, and I keep them in a baggie in my pocket wherever I go. I have not used any yet, however the very thought is immensely riveting.
My dog
Probably our car. It’s a great car, I spent weeks researching the perfect car for us. I love it and I’m grateful every time I drive it, but we bought it on credit and it’s way out of our price range to buy. It’ll take us about 6 years total to pay it off.
I still understand my decision at the time, but it was driven by a specific chain of events that made it make sense, and in principle I’m against buying a car on credit, just buy an older reliable car you can afford.
I understand and agree with your attitude to buying a car on credit. Two semi-objective justifications I can see are safety and quality-of-life.
Newer and better cars are safer, and you might not have even a minor collision throughout the whole lifetime of the car, but the (hopefully never) day a crash happens you’ll be forever grateful to yourself you bought this car. And if you have some “smart” assistants on-board those actually can make you not end up in the accident.
From my experience I have realized that (within reasonable bounds) if spending more on something results in substantiality higher quality-of-life then it’s a money well spent. Because you end up being happier, calmer and actually more productive if you don’t have to waste your energy on inconvenient things.
Not sure if that makes you feel any better…
Some of the considerations we took when choosing the car, I totally agree. I don’t regret the decision, the monthly payments are not a huge burden on us, fortunately, but it was still not the best financial move.
Nah I’d say that’s a good purchase. I just bought a new car on credit too because I’ve had pretty bad luck with buying used cars before. They always required quite a lot of work to get running and then something breaks and repairs are needed again. Case in point the current car’s AC system broke down a little while ago and after all the repairs that were done already I have a feeling that getting the AC repaired would mean I’ve paid more in repairs than to buy the car. And that’s just not worth it. So I decided to take out a little credit and just buy a new car instead.
It can be a good purchase and still be irresponsible, IMO. I love that car and it will serve us for years to come, I don’t regret it. We could have gotten a much cheaper new car, for example, but at the time we decided our biggest value for money was the car we have now.
Wondering which car you ended up choosing.
A 2 year old Nissan Leaf from the stand. Meaning, it belonged to Nissan as a test drive car before it was ours.
My Triumph Street Triple R (when it works).
After taxes, insurance, and service it cost me $5000, but when I twist that throttle and hear that screaming inline-3 at 11000rpm pulling harder than a V8 mustang, its intoxicating and I forget my worries, if only for a moment.
reliability problems?
So far it’s just been the battery not being screwed in tight enough, and me not having the correct tools to screw it in tightly. Other than that it hasn’t had a problem in the 300 miles since I got it (recently). I’m such a noob at mechanic stuff.
Almost 800 bucks on a Flair 58. I already had a decked out coffee setup but I couldn’t resist. Now it’s my go to machine.
An couple of American made guitars. A thinline telecaster and a Taylor 717. I’ve been playing on cheaper guitars for 20 years and finally was in the position to treat myself. While they sound a play a little better it’s not a huge difference, especially after a proper setup. The acoustic was the bigger improvement for sure.
Definitely a luxury purchase but after 4 years of the electric and 2 of the acoustic I still love playing both.
My V8 Holden Ute. Sure it’s not super practical but it makes up for it in Smiles per gallon.
I just did that too, recently bought and slowly fixing up a VE series 1 SSV with a manual L98
It does nothing but cost me money but I fucking love it.
Good on ya m8! Double bonus points if it’s a manual.
Tossed a hefty chunk of change on a Maschine+. AKA fancy beat pad for finger drumming/music production that can operate as standalone device. Did catch on sale, but still a hefty investment.
While not as “responsible” as other things I’m saving for, it’s been a fucking blast! Always fun having an easy way to kick beats without schlepping a full kit, and tbh I have so much more potential for making weird noises with the pad.
I always look at things like these and are tempted to buy them. There is so much cool audio gear out there that I feel like could “up my game”, but then I realize I have no game and already own a bunch of fun production gear that collects dust because I don’t have the time or energy to make music anymore.
I considered selling some of my stuff, but want to hang on to it just in case any of my kids pick up the hobby and all my stuff is cool and “retro” at that point. Shit it is almost already cool and retro - Akai MPC1000, Korg Electribe SX ESX1, Korg KP3, Dsi MoPho, a couple other bits and bobs.
But yeah, always tempted to buy cool new awesome shit that I would never use.
That’s the curse, man. Finally got fun money budget (kinda), but also got zero damn free time. Don’t even have kids! Where the hell is all the damn time going?! HOW is it the last week of August?!
Definitely would keep the gear to try and share with the kids. Old music tech is dope! Old tech in general, still quite cool. Loved hitting retro games on the thicc floppy back in the day. Or whatever other gadget pops would have around. Cherished times.
I bought a sauna. Second hand from a guy who had it in his third floor attic 50 miles away. Had to dismantle it get it in the van than rebuild it on my lean to.
I then got myself a big old whiskey barrel for a cold plunge pool.
No regrets, a sauna straight after coming off the hill in wet weather is the best.Off topic: How do you prefer to pronounce sauna?
I pronounce it sawna. But I prefer when it’s pronounced sowna. I just think I I’m not nordic enough to pull it off without sounding like a twat.
Motorcycles they’re all motorcycles
