For me it has to be:
- Helix mattress ($1,217). Sleep is great.
- Home gym power cage & weights (~$1,000). Look good, feel good, get strong.
- Netgear Nighthawk AXE7800 ($339). No more random, annoying internet disconnects/slowness.
- Books ($0 @ library)
- “Ultralearning” - Scott Young (how to learn efficiently)
- “Enlightenment Now” - Steven Pinker (the world overall is improving)
- “The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing” - Taylor Larimore (how to invest)
- PS5 ($500). So many great games like witcher 3, god of war, spiderman.
I’m searching for some more deep value purchases. Give me what you’ve got.
Honestly? It’s probably cheaper and easier these days to do things like “auto-shutoff”, “temp display”, and “temp select” in software than to do it in hardware.
@pinkdrunkenelephants This, exactly.
Can you make a soldering iron without all the software? Sure.
But it’s 2023, it’s cheaper and easier to use a microcontroller for pretty much anything these days.
And done of the features like a display that automatically changes orientation depending on how you hold the iron (lefties rejoice!) and auto sleep when you put the iron down, wake when you pick it up, programming your preferred temperature and boost temperature, etc are all very convenient and would likely not be worth the effort without a microcontroller running things.