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[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 4 hours ago

Good that OLED displays are no longer a luxury.

[-] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 52 points 1 week ago

Clean and well-tasting tap water. It sucks when I'm going to another country and they have chlorinated tap water

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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Electricity.
If you lose electricity most people lose access to:
Hot water
Running water (if you have a well)
Air conditioning
Indoor heat
Television
Internet
Indoor lighting
And hot meals if you don't have gas.

Losing electricity would cut you off from almost all of your luxuries as we've become completely dependent on it over the last century or so.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

it sounds like a necessity

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's a utility and so I agree it's a necessity. A luxury would be some of the things electricity allows like Internet.

[-] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The Internet access should be classified as a utility but good luck getting ISPs to stop lobbying against that

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah in the modern age internet access should be considered a necessity. There are a lot of things you can't do without the internet (like get a job or pay bills).

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Not necessarily, you could absolutely survive without electricity, I live in a predominantly Amish area that proves that.
It just wouldn't be any fun.

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[-] Zomg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah but no electricians no more electrocution... Think of the positives lol

[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

Air conditioning. Near the coast in Texas it's more or less a lifesaver.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago
  • Air conditioning
  • Chocolate
  • Coffee

All 3 are things that are reasonably likely to have troublesome accessibility in my lifetime.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 8 points 1 week ago

oh

a/c

yep that's the one

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I think AC will be the most reliable if home solar takes off. The other two though...

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

It's still prohibitively expensive to buy AC units in the first place though. Vast majority of homes do not have AC pre-installed.

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[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 25 points 1 week ago

Spices. Very much spices. If I was limited to like 5 good ones I'd make do but I have a drawer with like 50 spices in it I use regularly and it's my happy place.

[-] tiefling 4 points 1 week ago

100%

It kills me when I go to someone's house and the only spices are black pepper and cinnamon. Salt does not count.

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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

We just finished a big holiday trip, 2 weeks visiting both sides of the family. Stayed with one family and then the other. After that....yeah...seriously considering getting everyone bidets next year for Christmas...

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[-] riot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Music, without a doubt. Specifically, being able to choose particular songs to listen to. I'd get pretty miserable after a few days.

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[-] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(I'd argue that's more a necessity but) Bidet plus a a toilet rag covered in the stains from your previous toilet rag adventures?

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Housing. (Again)

[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Clean water on demand

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Literally, depending on where you draw a line between luxury and important but not mandatory for most people, it's air conditioning. We have three people in this household that do very poorly once heat and humidity starts to climb, including myself. Plus, uncontrolled humidity in the south ruins things, so there's an increase in costs associated with whatever decrease in power usage would save. For us, AC is right on the edge of being a necessity, as in a medical thing.

But in a more literal luxury that serves only pleasure or want, chocolate. No nutritional necessity, and it isn't like we all can't do without it. But gods damn, it would hurt. A nice piece of good quality dark chocolate is the ultimate mini reward for me. Do something incredibly painful and time consuming, that bit of chocolate is enough to turn it from something that I'm weeping in pain trying to finish into something I'm able to get through before I break down. That's a luxury, but fuck me if it isn't something I lean on heavily as a crutch. I really don't know what I would use to coax myself through really bad days where I'm barely functional but still have to function.

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[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Coffee. Can't even stop drinking it when I'm sick bc I feel like ten times worse.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Soap and clean water

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago
[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

I'd be broken for a little while but tbh I think I'd be better off in the long run

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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

While I am trying to use the internet less since the past 2 years or so, I will freak out if it ceases to exist completely.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't even call it a luxury. Hasn't been for years.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I miss when it was a luxury. Pretty fun times if you ask me.

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[-] Majestic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Break me? No. Really depress my mood? Probably no longer having Plex and my media collection. If my hard drives and back-ups all spontaneously combusted right after a trade war drove their prices through the roof x5 or something and I couldn't afford to replace (and/or couldn't find any to replace because of shortages) I would be quite sad. Additionally I've worked quite hard to curate my collection so losing it entirely in the first place would be depressing because of the amount of work required to rebuild it, encoding, scraping hard to scrape rarities, setting the posters just the way I like them, etc.

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[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I don't know, maybe oxygen.

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[-] stinkape@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Indoor plumbing and summer time AC

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

My headphones. I just love listening to music way too much.

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[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Sharpening stones and files. I can't imagine using dull knives. I can't stand knives duller than hair popping sharp. I have excellent knives that hold a crisp edge and I sharpen those every 30 minutes of super fast chopping (10 seconds on a 9k stone).

Not just knives but scissors, trowels, shovels, cooking spatulas, dust pans, vegetable peelers, can openers, toenail clippers, all need to be sharp. Not being able to sharpen all of those would be a tragedy.

If you are delaying getting into sharpening, just do it. It will serve you for the rest of your life, and I sharpen every single day (I'm a woodworker). Its truly a luxury to have sharp tools, all the time. So satisfying.

Aside from that, chocolate. The cravings will never go away.

Air conditioning, but I would argue that is a very expensive necessity.

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[-] Subtracty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Contact lenses. I know I could use my glasses, but I put them down and can't find them half the time. I am blind enough to be absolutely useless in most situations without corrective lenses.

[-] Alice@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

Hot water!! I don't remember how I survived childhood

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[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

If there is a luxury whose absence would break you, then I would suggest you do a little "fast" from it, occasionally.

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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

that picture exactly

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

None that would "break me" if I didn't have them, but I spend the vast majority of my free time on my computer (by choice, I have friends and outside activities I can go to if I want), and whenever I've had to be away from it that's always been the toughest part.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Cheese in general. Chocolate as well. Clean water is a necessity, but I guess hot water on demand? While I like eating beef and chicken I probably wouldn't be that sad overall if it went away.

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