Post a Picture of Your Silly Purchase of the Month.

You know, after over a decade of lifting in a variety of gyms, I'd *never* realized that the sleeves spin. I'd always assumed the plates were spinning on a static sleeve.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Could always look at the secondhand market. We got our home gym used.

Is it still used?

Wembley wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

Could always look at the secondhand market. We got our home gym used.

Is it still used?

Working from home, I get to use it about 6 times a week.

Knives a few pages back reminded me of my purchase.

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EverythingsTentative wrote:

Knives a few pages back reminded me of my purchase.

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Good looking neck knife. What's it made of?

Paleocon wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

Knives a few pages back reminded me of my purchase.

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Good looking neck knife. What's it made of?

440. It's very budget but it'll do.

a small wharncliffe bird and trout knife is always a good thing to have on you.

I have a tendency to go to extremes. I have an AG Russell Folding chef knife that is massive and then I get this little thing.

I guess that gives me a reason to buy another.

don't feel bad. This recent anti Asian hate violence has me thinking I need to go out and get a Cold Steel Frenzy

Paleocon wrote:

don't feel bad. This recent anti Asian hate violence has me thinking I need to go out and get a Cold Steel Frenzy

You could always carry a shivgee...

I don't have a picture of it, but my wife and I bought a new kitchen floor.

Well, we bought luxury vinyl planks that are shaped like floor tiles, and then bought plywood for a subfloor THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE ALREADY.

So now those old creaky, grout dust-blowing ceramic tiles that we had are gone. And replaced with things that look almost exactly the same to someone that isn't in the know.

I'm very happy. I hated hearing multiple tiles creak whenever I was making coffee in the morning.

It feels more sturdy now too, even though there was a very small chance I was ever going to take a quick trip to the HVAC room.

If your ceramic tile was creaking and moving that much then they were not installed right. Ceramic tile, when installed properly, is practically as hard and durable as concrete.

Anyway, those vinyl floor tiles are probably the best flooring you can get considering the price.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

If your ceramic tile was creaking and moving that much then they were not installed right. Ceramic tile, when installed properly, is practically as hard and durable as concrete.

Anyway, those vinyl floor tiles are probably the best flooring you can get considering the price.

That, and I have zero subfloor below it - it was before plywood was used I guess? So they were long thin boards that had some very old nails in them. Either way, I don't think doing a good tile job would have ultimately solved my problem.

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That's a Core i5-10400F and 16 GB Ram, upgraded from a Core i3-4130 and 8 GB RAM. It's a little present to myself to celebrate a few different things. Feeling very happy with this, especially with a successful boot on the first time!

Although I'd feel a little less silly for purchasing this if the first game I played after putting this together wasn't an 8-bit style indie game.

JC wrote:
Coldstream wrote:
JC wrote:

Silly? Maybe. Glorious? Most definitely

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Magnificent! What's the model?

Samsung Odyssey G9 at 240hz. 49" of widescreen beauty (5120x1440).

I seriously thought about a G7, and almost pulled the trigger. But the amount of curve on it was just nuts. If they'd curved it a little, I'd probably have bought it, but the super high curve on the model I was looking at put me off. (I looked briefly at the G9, but it was too expensive.)

Also, there were persistent firmware bugs on the G7. It seemed like Samsung's engineers were doing an impressively terrible job at taking a simple input and scaling it consistently onto the output. There were some test patterns that would make the screen go really wonky. Hopefully the G9 doesn't have those problems. You may want to keep an eye on firmware revisions if you see any issues with it.

Those issues seemed to be with the first batch and there was a hushed soft recall on that batch for fixes. The one I got has exhibited none of the reported issues so they either ironed out the bugs or I got lucky.

I was tired of having 3 different brands for my cordless power tools so I used our CostCo rebate and a few more bucks I gave myself for my birthday to centralize on Dewalt. Some friends scored some decent used tools so everybody won!

There have been 3 times in the last week where I wished I have one of their cordless vacuums. I think that makes it a need, right?

-BEP

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Wrong thread, this is not a silly purchase at all. Centralizing on a single battery system is pretty much required. I'm deep into the Ryobi stuff, mostly because my father-in-law works at Home Depot, and has been giving me Ryobi tools and batteries as gifts since we bought the house. It's real nice to be able to have some batteries and chargers in both the garage and house, and be able to grab whatever one's closer.

The other nice thing is that once you've got a supply of batteries, you can start picking up the tool-only version of new tools, which are usually a fair bit cheaper.

This reminds me, I really need to finally pick up an oscillating multi-tool. I may also pick up Ryobi's palm router. The router is silly because I recently got a full-size router with a plunge and fixed base, but I can definitely see the benefit of having a small one available too.

Chaz wrote:

The router is silly because I recently got a full-size router with a plunge and fixed base, but I can definitely see the benefit of having a small one available too.

I have a lot of redundancy between corded and non-corded, now, including the router. I want to make a small table for my corded router so I can justify keeping it. I've only used the corded router once and I've already matched that number with the cordless one as of yesterday. It's so nice to just grab the tool and use it.

I now have to decide which corded tools to get rid of. Redundancy is nice, but my garage is packed and not a usable space right now. What I really need is a professional organizer to come to my house and make me a plan for my garage.

Now, I'm contemplating a cordless mower and edger. My problem is my sunk cost in the gas versions I have. I decided to buy a nice mower and edger a couple years ago and have trouble selling them. I guess I can tell myself that the money from them will go towards the new stuff. I'm not sure my brain will comply.

-BEP

I can enable the need for an oscillating tool. I have used mine so much for projects or tight work jobs. In my mudroom I needed to remove old glue from roll floor & I had to peel it up with an oscillating blade....2 inch strip by 2inch strip...So much oscillating work!

I just bought a Harbor Freight one to see if I'd actually use one. Thing is a workhorse!

I love Harbor Freight tools. Especially for learning a new tool or trying something out. Then I'll upgrade to a higher quality one later if I really need it.

As someone who bought an electric mower that runs on LiPo batteries - do it. It's lighter, way less maintenance, quieter, can be stored safely inside, and when you use it, you don't come out of it smelling like engine exhaust.

I will say that most of them that do large yards, though, will need either a few extra batteries on hand, or will cost more up front because they have significantly larger batteries that don't work in anything else. So it's not that there's no downside. For myself, the batteries that came with it are plenty for the tiny yard I maintain.

Y'all just made me upgrade from my TN panel to an IPS panel Gsync 27" inch monitor. Yes, the size is the same, but that color vibrancy is much more pronounced!

I like it a lot.

Also, I didn't know that you had to turn on 144 hz, nor did you have to download freaking color palate drivers for monitors. Both of these things probably help quite a lot.

I got a Rigid corded oscillating tool and have gotten so much use out of it with my remodel projects. Only paid like $40 or $50 and worth every penny. Where they get you is the blades though.

How does your partner like that rigid corded oscillating tool?

Hiyoooo

I switched from Google Photo's to Amazon Photo's for my media backups because Google will start charging me like 1EUR/month in June. But Amazon won't backup video's for free, so I purchased a license of iMazing for 30EUR to extract my vids from my iPhone.

Hey, at least my money isn't going to an IT behemoth!

(cue someone posting that well actually the iMazing devs were busted drowning puppies last week or something)

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A Lamy Al-Star fountain pen. I used to have the same thing in "graphite" (i.e. gray) but lost it in a move a while back. So I decided to replace it, and thought the "bronze" color looked nice.

Splurge!
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Got a surprise COVID bonus from work and had a lower tax bill than I expected, so I bought my first new computer in over a decade. It’s nice to be at least edge-adjacent!

For the curious: got a smoking deal on this https://www.canadacomputers.com/prod...