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[-] snaptastic@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago

The cheap way to build a decent pc is to build a mediocre pc from random old parts, and then very slowly upgrade it.

[-] unreachable@lemmy.id 11 points 2 years ago

ship of Theseus

[-] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago

literally what I'm doing... sadly this comes at a cost, because the imbalance that a i5 7400 brings when combined with 24 gb ram and a good AMD gpu is a lot

[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah but every time I upgrade, it's mainboard, CPU and memory because it makes no sense to only replace one of it. And that's already 1/3 - 1/2 of the price

[-] Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

My tablet screen is filthy

[-] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Fucking John Cena. Everytime, he takes it all

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I've found that if I'm "saving" for a purchase, I need something like the adult equivalent of a piggy bank.

Mentally setting aside funds doesn't work.

Creating a "soft partition" doesn't work.

The best thing I can do to save (for a small to medium luxury purchase just for myself) is to literally take that money out of my account in cash and put it somewhere safe in my apartment.

If it's not showing up on my banking app and it's not in my wallet, it's like it doesn't exist. That's the best way for me to save it.

[-] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 1 points 2 years ago

The heck? Really? Can't you just send it to your savings account?

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I mean I could, but it's not as effective. Or rather, it just trades one issue for another.

Basically leaving it in my main spending account means there's no dividing line between what I'm saving for that purchase and the rest of my spending money. Moving it into my savings, with the rest of my savings, means there's no dividing line between what I'm saving for this luxury purchase and what I'm saving to, you know, actually save.

In my lizard brain, if I did it that way, from the first $50 I set aside, there would already be enough for the whole purchase in my savings, so there would immediately be the temptation to just dip into my savings and get the item now.

I don't want to start into the practice of dipping into my savings for luxury purchases anyway, so while yes I could do that, it would simultaneously not solve the issue with just leaving it in my main spending account while also opening up the new can of worms of setting me up for buying luxuries with my savings.

[-] Phantaminum@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

I do the same. It just work!

[-] PenguBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Missing the dollar that fell into the couch. It may be hard to find but it is saved!

[-] u202307011927@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

It's not only saved, it's invested. "I put it into the couch" sounds like an investment hehe

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I will assume the savings have gone by being used to buy that PC

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

You're optimistic, I respect that.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago
[-] jneko@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

just gotta wait for 2 years!

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago
[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

respects.exe

this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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