125

What’s something you own that has truly paid for itself? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

207 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I’m curious, what’s an item, tool, or purchase you own that you feel has completely justified its cost over time? Could be anything from a gadget to a piece of furniture or even software. What made it worth it for you?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] SuperDuperKitten 7 points 1 day ago

        Smart Lighting - My mum replaced most the lightblub in our house with Philips Hue. Nearly decade on and still using them which as an Autistic, I love that I can tweak the lighting to however I want from an app and compare to regular lightbulbs, it doesn't give me as much sensory nightmare as I find some of the lighting to be really harsh and distracting.
Noise-cancelling Headphones - Often use it if I'm in sensory overload, walking as I tend to listen to music as well as being on the bus to distract myself which otherwise, I start panicking how full the bus is.
Desktop DAC & Bookshelf Speakers - Always find changing volume on OS itself to not be perfect as it too low or high for my liking. I can simply tweak the volume knob of my Desktop DAC to get the volume just right. Also great way to listen to music

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Desktop DAC & Bookshelf Speakers - Always find changing volume on OS itself to not be perfect as it too low or high for my liking. I can simply tweak the volume knob of my Desktop DAC to get the volume just right. Also great way to listen to music

If I'm understanding you correctly and you just got the DAC purely to be a volume know then I disagree with you because keyboards with volume knows exist.

[-] SuperDuperKitten 2 points 1 day ago

That's still changing the Volume from the OS which I find changing the volume to not be as smooth compare to using a Desktop DAC and using knob on my keyboard, volume controls feels like a stair-step where it either bit too high or low and it's difficult to get it just right. That's why I like Desktop DAC and use it even over the volume knob on my keyboard.

this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025

125 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

50967 readers

525 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS