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What are your BEST tech purchases? (piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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What has brought you joy?

Companion to the last question :)

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

            
              Not a purchased by me, but the mechanical watch my grandfather gave to me some 40+ years ago. It was his watch, and was already used when he gave it to me, but it still works great today.
A good stack of quality paper (don't get me started on watercolor paper).
The humble pencil, B2 or B4. This may sound like a joke but despite its age and it being so low-tech the pencil is still an unrivaled piece of technology that even Apple can only try to mimic with its expensive Apple Pencil.
My most recent purchase, and a lot more 'high' tech than the pencil: a pocket Sony voice recorder, from the 90s. It uses standard AA batteries (that will last for weeks if not months), it needs no monthly subscription, and no online access, it fully respects my privacy, there is no ads in it, it uses MP3 and can record on either its internal memory or use SD cards, and it... works great with Linux.  I love it.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Theres a somewhat famous artist that is in my local area. He did a talk about paper (like papyras and all other kinds). It was fascinating! Over 40 people showed up to his talk.

[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Papers in all its forms is fascinating (and amazing) :)

Even more so when one start realizing how many forms it can take and has taken (animal skin 'paper', anyone?). Happy to know people showed up to listen to the talk!