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.

    • mursejoy@lemmy.zip
      3·
      4 days ago

      This is what everyone should be striving for. At least in America, a large percent of the population doesn’t have more than two paychecks saved.

  • kossa@feddit.org
    5·
    4 days ago

    Holy shit, are you me?

    Can’t really justify the Frame, but will do anyway, when buying mail comes around.

    Also got into 40k lore recently, but that is easier to withold, as I have no time and patience whatsoever to paint minis rn (especially not if the Frame comes around 😅). Books do it now, I suppose.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • Goforce5@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    5 days ago

    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…

    • mirshafie@europe.pub
      4·
      5 days ago

      Aw, man. We all need a break sometime. Maybe you can find something closer to home that can help you decompress?

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • kossa@feddit.org
      2·
      4 days ago

      I feel you. We hit the limit of our 2 TB in RAID1 like a year ago. Those were old, like some 10 years. I hold off, I thought we could make it until prices come down again. Could not, because one started failing. So I had to bite the bullet, bought two 8TB for 800 € 🙈. Was some 350€ one year ago, where I thought “Nah, those will get cheaper, we still can get by, by deleting some unused Linux ISOs every now and then” 🙃.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        It is so annying, this is the first NAS I have ever built myself, and the first proper redundant storage solution I will ever have had at home.

        (I don’t consider the old Intel NAS with four used 2TB drives in a raid 10 to be reliable anymore)…

        Now all my media is on teo drives, one 2TB for photos, and one 4TB for other media.

        I want a modern NAS that can deal with a loss of two drives without any loss of data.

        I am also annoyed at TrueNAS, I have been planning on using TrueNAS since the start of the project, one key feature was that they were open source, now that they have closed the source, I don’t believe I can trust them anymore. Currently considering Proxmox, or Open Media Vault.

        I don’t know how stable OMV is with ZFS, so I am feeling a but stuck…

        My initial plan was actually to use OMV, set up LMV and have a 32bit LV across the six 8tb PVs and migrate as needed, but that just felt like a way too annoying nonstandard setup…

        So I decided on TrueNAS tor their ZFS support, and now here we are…

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        Last year at about this time one 8TB drive cost 2500SEK, a fair price I guess, now they cost 4000SEK minimum, I don’t have the money for that.

        I have four 8TB drives that I got before the crazy mess started. I want a NAS of 32TB in a ZRAID2

        These last two drives are the last component I am missing ):

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 days ago

    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…