Bought a pair of Rab Torque pants on my way to meet up with a buddy before a Roadtrip.
That’s around 5 years ago and those pants are still going strong after hours on the climbing wall, at crags, on the trail, an ice climbing trip, shoveling snow, on stroller walks etc. only real damage is a hole from snagging on a crampon that’s since been fixed.
I like these pants.
The more affordable soundcore version of those Bose clip on ear headphones. I thought they looked cool when I saw one of my colleagues come into work with them so I ordered them that same day. I now have two pair, bought my girlfriend a pair, and can’t think of how I lived my life with headphones actually going into my ear lol.
Edit: *lived not loved lol gotta love autocorrect
Maybe I need to look into these, or something similar. I’ve tried all the earbuds: different sizes, compressible ones, stabilizing fins, “sport” designs, etc. Every single one falls out of my ears! Can’t even imagine what it’s like to just stick them in your ears for an extended period of time and not have to worry about them…
Look up bone conduction headphones. I think Shox is the main brand. I bought them since I ride a bike a lot so earbuds would mess with my situational awareness. You hear everything around you which is the best and worst part about them.
Yeah I get that. The clip type are pretty easy. I know the more expensive ones can be kind of wrapped over part of your ear which may be even better, these ones just go over your earlobe and they work for me but I could see how they could be too loose or tight for people
can’t think of how I lived my life with headphones actually going into my ear lol
Do you mean that you find these more comfortable than traditional in-ear headphones?
Yeah lol super comfortable. Also no ear infections this fall/winter lol
I’m also prone to ear infections so I’ll have to try these out. I tend to use over-ear headphones 24/7 because of it but sometimes if I’m walking home at night I feel safer with in ears
These are awesome and let you still hear your surroundings. I highly recommend them.
I’m also prone to idiocy + walking into traffic so that’s great news
I have the jlab version and they’re comfortable enough, but they’re pinching the side of your ear so they do get uncomfortable after a while. I still prefer them to standard earbuds, but I’m also prone to ear infections so…
Keep in mind sound quality probably isn’t quite on par with similar priced earbuds, but they’re great for podcasts. +1 for these being a “glad I bought them” impulse buy.
The Soundcore C30i?
Clip-ons are super cool, heaps of companies jumping on them now. I found the C30i super uncomfortable though, didn’t flex enough. More like slide-ons.
Some cool ones coming soon from other companies, will be heaps to choose from.
There were games on sale I bought on impulse that I’ve dumped plenty of hours into.
Super Mario Odyssey - bought it while I was waiting for Tears of the Kingdom to release, replayed it at least three times. Same with Mario + Rabbids.
Lots of indie games - Slime Rancher, Cat Quest II, both Cattails games, Sprout Valley. All in the replay pile and some of my favorites.
Got my money’s worth and then some, plus I wouldn’t have given them a chance if I was hesitant ¯_(ツ)_/¯
For me that was dwarf fortress. Insane game bought on a whim!
I got a silly Dutch game called Wuppo: Definitive Edition on sale for £1 a few years ago. Not sure why I impulsively got it but I ended up loving it so much
have you played super mario galaxy?
A Tilley hat.
I was shopping for a new vacuum cleaner when a saw a portable carpet cleaner. Basically a vacuum with a precision nozel bolted to a water sprayer. It has been a complete game danger for cleaning up the mess my cats would sometimes leave. Although it is still not as effective as the course of dewormer their vet prescribed.
Terraria, btd6(twice)
Steam deck. OLED. Linux. Not locked down to hell. Nuff said.
I bought a Steam Deck with my first paycheck ever, and it was more expensive than my salary. Zero regrets.
Preach. I do couch gaming, so this machine is unbelievably nice.
What games can one actually play on such console. I mean it surely can’t run triple A games right?
Depends
https://steamdeck.com/en/verified
All these game will work swimmingly. Those marked playable will usually work perfectly fine out of the box, but maybe have an ugly launcher or something you need to use the touchscreen for. Those marked unplayable will have bugs but in my experience work fine too. There’s a more detailed less conservative compatibility db online too.
In terms of power it’s about between a PS4 and PS4 Pro, with a faster CPU, more RAM, slower GPU, but with a really fast NVMe SSD so games like CP2077 are very playable but not at the highest settings.
Gotta remember the Deck has a 7.4" 800p screen, so its not comparable to the horse power needed for a PC at 4K or something.
Most consoles end up around the same render res once you’ve accounted for checkerboarding, dynamic res and DLSS/FSR nonsense.
The deck also does shader pre-compilation and caching for games on steam so it often performs much better compared to a Windows PC with the same hardware for example.
Anything ray tracing is out of the question though as it uses AMD, not Nvidia.
I don’t play AAA games (nor know what new ones are there) - if you have a game in mind I could try it and report back?
The only game I tried that it really struggled with was NFS Unbound.
I was also able to do PS3 emulation on it, including Skate 3 and Motorstorm.
I can play zero dawn on mine and boy did it make train rides tolerable.
What LainTrain said. But you might find yourself playing less powerful games - emulators, Factorio, Hades, stardew, modded mc, etc…
arent you locked down to Steam now? ie the games you buy are only through steam
You can pirate on the deck. It’s like two extra steps compared to PC, but you can.
If you’re not a Linux weirdo there are subreddits and people have made it easy, though you do have to use desktop mode to download games afaik.
If you’re already a big linux weirdo, just ssh in and look at htop while playing any steam game in deck mode and figure out how the magic works yourself, trust me it’s a lot of fun and the thing is really nice to explore because it’s not locked down at all.
Nope. Runs Linux and there are launchers for pretty much all the other games stores. It’s just a significantly smoother process for things you have in Steam because of the work Valve has done on Linux compatibility.
I am planning to buy a Deck when I can afford it. I’ve been a PC player all my life but this is going to be my way of supporting Valve for all the good things they have done for Linux gaming. I mostly play Paradox strategy games, so I’m not sure how that will work on the Deck without a mouse. But maybe Terraria and Stardew Valley might be playable using controller style keys.
You’re in luck, the deck runs those fairly well in my xp.
Bidet hands down no question. The world is missing out.
I’ve had the same experience. I splurged a bit and got one with all the bells and whistles (warm water, heated seat, etc.). It’s such a shockingly significant improvement to something I do daily. Couldn’t imagine going without it now. I can’t believe they’re not more common.
Yup. I’m going to get the full warm water, bells and whistles version.
I am not a user, but I am bidet-curious. I can’t see how a gentle spray of water can clean poop from my hairy ass cheeks. Unless it’s like a pressure washer. Which I also don’t want.
Or is it just a starter and you finish with paper?
Pressure is variable, you can absolutely pressure wash.
Also. That first wipe can be quite a thing. You can always start with the bulk wipe. But you’ve never been cleaner than with a bidet.
Asian people have culture shock, when they move to Australia, due to no bidet, and having to smudge poop with paper.
I want one that has the sort of vibration pulse wash. It cleans you. Very well
Even a minimally featured bidet will at least soften things up and make wiping more effective.
I used a tushy bidet to start, which is pretty cheap and easy to get going and get comfortable with it. I would recommend the warm water options, but you need to have a sink nearby to steal the warm water from. Fancier warm water bidets have an instant water heater, so you don’t need a hot water tap, just power.
I have since upgraded to one with all the features, and here’s how my process typically goes:
- Sit down on heated seat
- Push out what I can
- Using the remote, turn on low pressure heated water with pulsating mode. I can also move the spray back/forth with the remote to get everything.
- Switch to high pressure for a moment. That has enough pressure to get up in there a bit, which seems to lubricate/soften any parts that didn’t come out through sheer effort earlier.
- Pause, push out one more time
- Go back to low pressure to tidy up
- Turn on blow dryer for a bit, or dry off with TP if I’m in a hurry.
I feel so dirty when I come back to a country without bidets.
I have been shopping for one for a while, but overwhelmed by how many brands and stuff there are. Is Toto the best choice? Or would an off brand be better value? There’s just so many options. (I do want all the bells and whistles, warm water and warm air, etc)
I was in Hong Kong and after a glorious day sightseeing and walking around it suddenly started to thunder. Rain everywhere. No shelter in sight. People slipping down the stairs running through the streets. Cars splashing puddles everywhere. Bus and tram stops full of people trying to avoid the rain. I quickly ducked into a department store before I was fully soaked but thought, “fuck I have another twenty minutes walk to get back to the hotel”. So I looked around the store for a few minutes and found the accessory section where they keep the umbrellas. Perfect! This was going to be the best impulse buy of my life.
I picked up a designer leather belt that I had been searching years for online. There it was, right in front of me, at a decent price. So I bought it.
hong kong do be like that a lot of the time
A house. It was 2017 and I wanted a place to getaway to in the weekends. Went to look at one and didn’t like it, but there was another nearby that I looked at and called up a realtor to represent me.
A month later I was a homeowner with a low interest loan.
2017-2019 was rough as I was paying for a mortgage and rent.
Housing costs then exploded, I moved into it full time for COVID, refinanced for an even lower interest rate.
Congrats!
No One Lives Forever
I bought it right after it was released and I don’t know why. I’d usually only pay full price for a game if I had obsessed for months over it. It ended up being a favourite game of mine.
Aldi rice cooker. $18 and the most used tool in the kitchen
I opted for an automatic pressure cooker instead.
You want to talk about most used kitchen appliance? It’s a rice cooker, slow cooker, steamer, sous vide machine, bread maker, pressure cooker, and induction cooktop, all in one!
Mine is also my cheap £20 rice cooker. Found out I can make Quinoa in it recently and very happy
A cheap Chinese bluetooth speaker. I bought it due to its great price without any specific idea how to utilize it. Years later I ended up in relatively cramped conditions without the hi-fi equipment I used previously, using this bluetooth speaker as my main audio device for long months.
Moving to California Bay Area. Decision literally happened in about three hours.
If only I had the money I’d live and die in the PNW
Do it! You can make $75k even just as a waiter here. I moved here from Colorado and will never leave.
I’m originally from the Orange County area and don’t wanna live in California again. My family is still all out there so I can visit when I need to. I left because I couldn’t find even a waiting job and moved to the Pittsburgh area and am pretty happy. I’d kill to live in Seattle or Portland but I have a whole life out here now.
I’m super happy you found happiness tho :)
Something tells me that comment you answered to was a bit tongue in cheek
Hmm, I’m not sure because CA is one of the only states where tipping culture is still very much a thing but servers aren’t allowed to be paid nothing (well not “nothing” it’s usually like $3 an hour but their paychecks after taxes are always $0.00) and have to at least be paid minimum wage.
The issue though is that getting one of those jobs…even a job at McDonald’s (at least when I was growing up and living there) is incredibly hard. Sure they’ll take your application…and add it to the bottom of the 5 inch stack of them. I no joke once spent 12 hours straight in this typical California shopping area and applying literally everywhere. I didn’t care what it paid or the kind of business. I did this quite a few times but never a full 12 hours.
The only “consistent” work I found was telemarketing but the turnover is like insane and it’s soul crushing. But if he got lucky then more power to em
Take my place please, I want to back to Cali lol
A cat. In line at the pet store for kitty litter and saw a literal pile of kittens near the check out. Turns out that the local shelter was having an adoption day and my partner found a black cat that immediately nuzzled into her shoulder and the little kitten motor purred so loud it sounded like snoring. They bonded in that moment and have been best friends for the last 14 years.
I was really trying to rack my brain for this question but, you helped me.
Mine is a pet too. A dog. I have a Dalmatian and there was one up for adoption at a local shelter.
I went to meet him, and the shelter sort of pushed him into me right then. It was more expensive than it should have been also.
In the end, I’m glad I brought him home. My first dog loves to wrestle with him and the shelter ended up getting shut down for violations with the state. I’m so happy he got a good home with me and didn’t get sent to who knows where when the shelter closed.
Wow, glad it worked out! I’d say impulse buying a pet is usually not a good idea!
But I see you already had cats? (Or you wanted kitty litter for… something else?) And adopting a shelter pet… worst that happens is it goes back to the shelter I guess! So maybe not so risky in your situation.
We had one cat and didn’t expect a second but it was a conversation that we had started and expected that maybe the first cat was alone and sad when we left for work (in the long ago era of 2013, a pre pandemic life). Given that the shelter was locally well respected we took a look and, yeah, it’s risky but that’s the nature of impulse purchases!
