whats your dumb purchases?

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I bought a pallet of computers at an auction at a local college for $250 a year or two ago. HP Elitedesk GenIIs specifically (4th Gen i5, 8GB of RAM, 256gb SSDs, and space for add in cards and more drives if needed) I did not expect my throwaway bid to win but it did. So now I have a bunch of computers. I have some projects in mind, but honestly I’ve mostly been tossing them to friends and family when they need a computer for something. Eventually they’ll all be allocated, sold and given away but it’s certainly taking a bit

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  A 10 inch 300W powered amp/subwoofer… I already have a soul-destroying stereo with 8 inch sub and studio monitor speakers… and live in a 1 BR… I do NOT need a sub so powerful it will rattle the gypsum out of the walls, and yet…

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• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  $19K in watches. Now I have a kid, and I am straight salary. In hindsight, I would be perfectly happy with the least expensive one. I’m a mechanical engineer, and they really interest me. But they were not smart purchases.

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• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  Does a Hello Kitty bandsaw count?

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  • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you actually a wood scientist; and, if so, can I pick your brain?

    Nice saw, BTW!

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m actually working on a PhD in the field. Whether that officially makes me a “scientist” I cannot say. But I have actually studied and done research in the field. Ask away!

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  • moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No. That’s the coolest shit I’ve ever seen

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I actually did the paint job myself. Bought an old saw that needed some new paint, so I decided to have some fun with it.

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I bought a used rusty school bus. Six years later, at least I know how to weld now. Sort of. I also learned how to survive hitting my head on a large steel C-clamp nine times without suffering any brain damage. Additionally, I learned how to survive hitting my head on a large steel C-clamp nine times without suffering any brain damage.

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Six years later, at least I know how to weld now. Sort of.

    The most important part of the Dunning Kruger curve! And welding is a fantastic example. You go from “this hot melty thing is scary” to “dang, I can make metal stick to itself!” to “that weld looks kinda professional” to “holy crap there’s a whole science and art to this I will never have the time to fully learn”.

    Is your school bus now something usable? Would love to hear about a successful impulse buy!

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• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So I might have gotten into Airsoft before my paycheck has arrived… Sorry wallet, you’ll feel better in a few days time.

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  • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    How expensive is it? Isn’t it just air compressed plastic beads?

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My pregnant wife asked me to get her a fountain Coke Zero from Costco the other day… I paid for the thing and waited patiently for my empty cup. When I approached the dispenser, I found that all three Coke Zeros were out of order. I had no choice but to fill it with Diet Coke. It was the lowest Costco experience of our lives.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I realise that it’s probably a highly technical question, but is there a difference?

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    • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Coke Zero is a newer diet option formulated to taste similar to original Coke, with the presence of a mild artificial sweetener flavor that is more recognizable to those who are sensitive to the taste. Diet Coke, on the other hand, was created decades before they had decent sweeteners. While it still has a sizable following of people who like it, Diet Coke tastes nothing like original Coke, and has a flavor more akin to the smell of hot plastic.

      This is pretty consistent across all brands now, at least from those that I’ve tried so far. The new Zero versions are much, much closer to the original formulas.

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Coke Zero is the formula marketed to males who do not want to be on a “diet”.

      It’s got some extra flavor extracts as far as I can tell; a more robust and “spicy” taste v Diet Coke

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am currently surrounded by empty cardboard boxes from all the jars I bought because I wanted to make a bunch of preserves because I have a supply of free apples. Slow cooker is currently on warming up 5L of pureed apples that I will make into chutney.

  If this was a dumb purchase or not depends on who you ask.

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  • devils_advocate@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think you’ll make a profit, but maybe you’ll make some friends.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would trade sourdough starter for homemade chutney.

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  • bert_brause@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That counts as a great purchase in my book!

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My dumb shit is all homemade.

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• BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I always dreamed of having a fast food pop machine in my house as a kid. It took me about a year of owning a SodaStream as an adult to realize that I do own a slower and smaller scale pop machine and I can make as much pop as I want.

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  • saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got this bad boy when we needed a new sink anyway. It’s definitely overpriced, I could probably diy a system for way less, but i use this every day and it is awesome having sparkling on tap.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Does it taste different than what you get in cans/bottles for home use?

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    • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, it tastes pretty different. It’s either the carbonation or the fact each SodaStream is haunted by the thousands of people killed and displaced for them to put a factory in the West Bank. 50/50 on which is a bigger factor

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    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you want it to taste as close to identical as possible, you can usually find name brand bag in box syrups if you search around. So I guess in theory you should be able to get the same taste as real fountain soda. Idk how that compares to bottled though. I had a box of dr pepper syrup which made great tasting dr pepper.

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    • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A little bit. The carbonation and syrup amount changes each time you make it. But overall it’s the same idea.

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A convertible that I had have tuned to the max and foiled and re-seated to my liking in my favorite colors. It looked awesome in my head.

  Then my pimp-mobile came. And I always was the center of attention. Which I, a very private person, highly disliked but gloriously failed to predict. Also it was horrible to drive for >30mins because you basically had your nuts on the ground and felt every Lil pebble on the road. Few months later I sold the car and bought one which basically made me invisible. One that only >70yrs olds drive here 😁

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I drive a roadster myself. Recently I’ve noticed that to get out of it, I have to lift my left leg up with my arms and set my foot on the ground, otherwise I get a sartorius muscle strain. I now understand why used roadsters are so cheap: there is only a tiny window where you’re old enough to afford one but young enough to actually get in and out of it.

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• NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ungodly ammounts of ultra high power flashlights with open source, customizable UI

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A flashlight… User interface?

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I keep buying more synthesizers while I already have more than enough. I buy more than I play with them.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I grew up obsessing over synths in the '70s and '80s. Now I’m a programmer who writes (more accurately wrote) software synthesizer apps, and I find it amusing that my cheap smartphone from ten years ago has orders of magnitude more sound generation power than those keyboard-based beasts from my childhood did.

    That being said, I would probably be willing to kill somebody to get my hands on an original Moog to play around with.

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    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah those Moog’s are insane. But the Behringer clones are also super nice. And imo nothing beats the sound of an analog synth. With those new Behringer clones you also have a USB connection supporting midi, so you can mix them very well with any DAW.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Something like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjAeTh4DnY&list=RD1vjAeT… ?

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    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No I don’t have money for the real ones. I mostly have Behringer clones.

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• Qwel@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A blank 10cm by 10cm square piece of aluminium. About 2 cm thick

  I think I wanted to know how it felt. Like, the vibe of aluminium

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨51⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    That sounds completely logical to me. Did having a hunk of aluminum answer the question for you? Or did it only drive a more insatiable desire to hold elemental materials?

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  • Ludrol@szmer.info ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Add a tungsten cube to begin a collection.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did a coop at IBM many many years ago. My project used a 1" thick slab of aluminum that was about 3’ x 4’ and it was so much fun to just touch that thing. We also had CADCAM which was not at all widespread in the '80s. It was so much fun to design parts and send them to the machine shop electronically and have them show up on a cart outside the lab the next day. Quite a shame how far IBM has fallen since those days.

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• Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Another synthesizer that I don’t even have a stand for.

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I bought an old pachislo machine from a garage sale because ... I'm not real sure, but I have one of those now.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Damn I’ve always wanted something like this! Jelly

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      If you manage to find one, there's a modification you can do to it so that it will also take US quarters. Mine seems to have already had that modification before I got it, so I can't say how involved it is, but I don't think it's too hard.

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  • nailingjello@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks fun. How much was it?

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      $75, and it works. Well ... worked, it's being weird now, but I'm sure it's mechanical, I just haven't gotten to looking at it.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.

  I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.

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  • batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Surely there’s enough for a macro pad in there? It’s like the makers version of a scratch off lotto ticket lmfao

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.

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• knight_alva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Espresso machine A nice double boiler one

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I bought an entry level espresso machine and i thought that i want a really fancy one, if i keep using it and this one breaks. That was like 8 years ago and i use it almost daily and don’t really want another one.

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• pebbles@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wayyyyyyy too much tea

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  • toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what kinds :D

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    • pebbles@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for asking :) WARNING: I got excited to respond. I’ve gotten into a Puerh kick lately. For those that don’t know, Puerh is a very dark fermented tea. My current one taste predominantly like leather with a hint of wood and dirt. High quality dirt. I adore this tea.

      I’ve got a huge white2tea.com sampler order that hasn’t been shipped yet. I’m trying like 21 different teas spread across the following categories: white, ripe puerh, raw puerh, haungpain.

      FYI haungpain is known as “Farms Tea”. It uses broken leaves and leaves lower on the tea plant that were/are considered lower quality. But I hear the lower leaves have a nice robust flavor, and most tea I buy tends to avoid the lower leaves. I’m excited to try it.

      I’m thinking of reviewing all the tea I get posting them all on the tea community or something.

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• Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Onewheels are so much fun.

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not enough room here to show all my impulse purchases.

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• craigers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A switch 2. No regrets on that fat PP tho love that thing.

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• FancyLad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Self-balancing electric vehicle gang! I have a VESC onewheel build and it’s the best waste of money ever.

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    those are so much money, I’m so jealous lol
    I just got mine for 350 off Facebook marketplace

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    • FancyLad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can do a vesc conversion on the cheap, there are kits out there. I spent two years amassing parts for my build and it made me feel like Tony Stark putting it together (and it worked).

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That fat PP looks a little on the short side.

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• toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  salty licorice😈

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