Affordable solar panels and batteries. With this we were able to life off-grid surrounded by nature.
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Setting up my own NAS and offside backup.
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a 3d printer, I've picked up my now favourite hobby when I got it: gun smithing
It's too bad the pay is kind of shit. I looked into when I was younger and noped right out.
Though if you're actually making guns/parts for sale instead of repairs it might be better.
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64gb of ram. 32 cores.
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Higher quality electric coffee grinders. I have been using pretty nice hand grinders for years ($100 to $200 range) and while they were good, the consistency and general quality of life improvement gotten from these nicer electric grinders has made a significant improvement in both the coffee quality and my time/life quality related to making coffee daily.
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Also a happy T440p owner. Nice laptop and the keyboard is great.
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You won't get one with a touchscreen
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