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.
A FUCKING HOUSE
Brothels are available for low prices
Load-bearing walls!
Double strapped and reinforced tie downs
I feel you.
I heard the banks where I live are thinking about providing multi-generational loans so people would be able to pay for them.
Can I do that and not have kids
They’ll find some next-of-kin to pin it on, I’m sure
They’ll take the building and sell it to some other shmuck for a massive loan
Amazing, that’s literally serfdom 😭
Healthcare
I thought about the Steam Frame, and can definitely afford it, but I just can’t see enough VR software I’m interested in. I’ve played through HL:A, and most everything else is very short experiences. Or beat saber, which is too fast for me.
This is my hang up on it too. There’s just not been any interesting VR titles lately, and I havent seen any announcements either. Seems like a waste of money for a blade and sorcery machine.
😭 i want so bad but these times it makes no sense
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.
Upgrade my server/storage. I only have 1.5tb of storage total for everything including my music, shows, etc.
But I am able to manage it, so I can’t really justify buying more storage for it when I technically don’t need it.
In 1995: a virtual boy
In 2015: an Oculus Rift
In 2026: a Steam Frame
I’m sensing a pattern, here.
Being debt free.
I really want to do an electric conversion of a Geo Tracker.
One with a blown engine showed up on Craigslist for $1k two weeks before my daughter’s due date.
Next time.
I kinda want a true cargo bike. Not anything branded, I’d want to be able to replace electronics, but just having a huge box on an e-bike would be nice I imagine.
I rarely need to move more stuff than fits in a backpack, I have 2 big bike bags as well, and if it won’t fit in any of these, chances are it’s furniture that won’t fit in a cargo bike either. I simply do not need it.
I put off buy new hard drives for my NAS. I have an 8 bay and slowly filled it over the years with 6tb drives since they were about $200 at that time. Now that I ran out of that space I started replacing the 6tb one by one with 12tb which at the time was around $200 as well. Ive needed a new HD for years now but couldnt really afford it, but now I really need a new one and I REALLY can’t afford it… this hobby is essentially dead at these prices. Ill continue to purge data and hope in a few years some miracle happens and prices drop again. I also hope these current drives hold out without issues…
More professional Bosch tools (Blue ones) for personal use. Maaaaybe I can justify a new drill, drillbits and a multicutter. Bosch professional tools are a true pleasure to use. I cant go back to cheaper consumer grade tools.
RTX 3090 for local LLM. I just pay for european hosted inference instead.
A couple days vacation to go hiking. I haven’t had a vacation in years, and I desperately need a break from my life. I’d be thrilled if I could just get on a plane, go across the country and see some mountains for 2-3 days and then come home, but I just can’t afford it. Maybe next year, she says, for the 3rd year in a row…
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.
A pair of 20TB HDDs. My NAS is a janky RAID0 setup of a Raspberry Pi and 2x 12TB external WD HDDs that are about 3 years old at this point. I want a backup at this point but there’s no way I’m paying for something that ridiculously expensive at the moment.
I also should’ve gone for at least 32GBs of RAM for my PCs but my cheap ass thought prices would never explode.
