Ha yeah, bought them a while back but even then I had to space out some of those purchases.

I’ve used my rasps, track saw and domino quite a bit so they’ve probably paid for themselves by now. And since they’re usually of good quality it’s “buy once, cry once”.

Some examples I’ve encountered:

Power tools

• Festool - Germany
• Mafell - Germany

Hand tools

• Auriou rasps - (handstitched!) France
• Pfeil gouges - Switzerland
• Ashley Iles chisels - UK
• Gränsfors axes - Sweden
• Sjöbergs workbenches - Sweden
• BeaverCraft carving tools - Ukraine

Food and beverage

• Le Creuset cookware - France
• Opinel knives - France
• La Marzocco espresso machines - Italy

Electronics

• Fairphone smartphones - Netherlands
• Pro-ject turntables - Czech republic
• Rega turntables - UK

Musical Instruments

• Bulas banjos and mandolins - Poland

It’s great, just the right amount of sweetness to go along with coffee. I’ve seen people dip it, but I just enjoy it on the side. As long as both are hot and fresh, you can’t go wrong.

Pandesal and coffee, start the morning right.

Visiting all the national parks I can and even a few world heritage sites would be nice.

As far as doing things, I’d like to build some heirloom furniture, a couple of stringed instruments, and maybe a canoe. Might even go full Thoreau/Dick Proennecke and build a cabin out in the wilderness.

Seems pretty volatile in most countries right now so would depend on how stable you believe your income is and if you could comfortably afford the total cost of ownership (expensive houses tend to have higher property taxes, insurance and financing costs, etc).

Me personally, I probably wouldn’t stretch my finances right now with all the uncertainty just so I don’t stress about making ends meet if my situation changes. But everyones’ circumstances and risk tolerances are different.

Ahoge

I only have experience with NewPipe but so far it has been positive. I use it every day on both Android and e/OS (Fairphone) without issue.

The times when YT has breaking changes have been resolved by the dev team within a relatively short period (keep in mind they are open-source contributors after all).

No TV but the more pernicious thing now is anything connected to the internet. Feels like “no TV in the bedroom” should be updated to “no screens in the bedroom” since a lot of folks end up doom scrolling instead of going to bed.

El Psy Congroo!

In-person meet ups are great, especially for shared hobbies. A lot of things are starting to be remote only, which can also be fine, but I just prefer meeting IRL.

Was a pretty good day. Walked to the park with my dog, made progress on a chair I’ve been building, and played some mandolin. Mowed the lawn too, I have one of those non-electric reel mowers so it’s a decent workout.

I don’t want big name celebrities doing voice over for animated movies. Give me actual VAs

Right now I alternate between DuckDuckGo and Ecosia. Google results have been getting worse and the forcing of AI summaries was the final straw for me to stop using even the !g shortcut in DDG. At least DDG let’s you disable them.

Waking up late on weekends, making a good cup of coffee, throwing on a record, and just relaxing before the day gets going.

Playing an instrument and jamming with others.

Finishing projects. Making stuff by hand.

Taking long walks with my dog.

Reading outside.

Music and dancing.

Being amongst nature.

That’s refreshing to see in a world of ever increasing enshittification. Wish more companies move in this direction.