I bought a Global brand Santoku knife like 20 years ago and it’s still my favorite knife. It was when I got my first solo apartment and I had basically no kitchen stuff. Instead of a cheap knife block, I got one good knife.
I hate calling “purchases” “investments” but it might apply in this case.
Was going to comment about a knife as well but you beat me to it. Though I went with Wusthof. The difference a good knife makes a huge difference for cooking.
The same applies to cookware. Don’t overpay buying a whole set is a waste. Buy the couple pots and pans you need individually and save.
Sort of. I paid for Linode so I could stop babysitting dynamic DNS. Before that I had a piece of hardware sitting at home and did weird stuff to make it routable from elsewhere.
The surprise benefit of Linode was their web interface to tear it down and reimage it for free whenever I bricked it. And I bricked it at least half a dozen times.
Today, instead of dynamic DNS, you could probably just use IPv6, or maybe get a nice router with built in dynamic DNS? But I haven’t researched those options.
Because I now pay around $2 per month for a root account on a small dedicated cloud hosted Linux VM from AWS EC2, and that includes some pretty nice non-dymamic real enterprise DNS for like another 10 cents per month.
If I add the cost of every game I played for 4+ hours I got off that service, it would total over $1000. Even more if I include shit I installed, played for 10 minutes and didn’t like.
Even with the recent price changes going up by a whopping $60 for the tier I am at, that’s still worth it; assuming they continue to add new shit at the same rate.
With how often I see people bemoaning subscription services, there are still some that are very worth the cost if you’re actually utilizing the service often.
Yubikey support, 2fa support, and I wanted to donate anyways because it’s a great password manager and I love FOSS. However, the server software isn’t FOSS but you can self-host vault-warden for complete control and I would bet those same features.
My woodshop of 220v saws. They paid for themselves remodeling my house and building most of the furniture and all the cabinets in it. So, now they paid for themselves and I can make whatever I want. Saw brrrr noises are my therapy. I think I’m slowly becoming Nick Offerman.
A really nice kitchen knife. I use it daily and it makes cooking so much more fun, which translates into eating less junk food and take out, saving a ton of money and being more healthy.
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