I often hear, “You should never cheap out on a good office chair, shoes, underpants, backpack etc…” but what are some items that you would feel OK to cheap out on?

This can by anything from items such as: expensive clothing brands to general groceries.

  • Rosco
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    -710 months ago

    computer keyboards i will never understand paying more than 20 bucks for one

      • @[email protected]
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        1410 months ago

        I made this mistake, some friend talked me on to them. I wouldn’t say worst mistake, caz I have a nice keyboard now, but dang it was expensive and not even close as good as how much it was hyped.

        • kubica
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          10 months ago

          I thought the same with a cheap mechanical I bought, then I tried to go back to my old, still usable keyboard after some days and for some reason it doesn’t feel so usable anymore.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            I agree that going from a barely usable to a cheap mechanical is a huge jump, but the differences between mechanical and other mechanical isn’t as big as ppl in the hobby make it seem. I couldn’t have gotten a very similar experience for 70% less.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          A basic mechanical keyboard will last 20+ years and will be a nice typing experience for all those years. I’m old enough to have seen mechanical keyboards go for 20 or more years under heavy use and plenty of non-mechanical keyboards going bad after 5 years or so with similar use. It’s a great purchase.

        • @[email protected]
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          010 months ago

          I bought a couple different super cheap mechs (browns for when my partner is sleeping, blues for KLIK KLACC) and they’re SO MUCH BETTER than I expected. They were under 40USD each and have full RGB.

      • Subverb
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        110 months ago

        My refurbished IBM Model M from 1984 agrees.

    • @Serinus
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      1910 months ago

      My nice mechanical keyboard is 13 years old. They last, and if you’re going to have something for decades, why not have a nice one?

      • @weeeeum
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        110 months ago

        Hehe, my model m122 terminal is pushing 37. Got it for $30 too so it’s not even expensive lol.

    • PetePie
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      410 months ago

      I’m not sure if it’s still the case but even in cheap keyboards if you pay a bit more you they will have better controller that will let you press more keys at once which is important for gaming. I got my mechanical keyboard couple years ago and overnight I stopped making so many typos and I can type much faster. My plan was to check the keyboard out for a week, write a ton of documentation for work and send it back but now I don’t regret paying extra for it, in fact I think it’s the second most important component of you computer after the fastest hard drive you can get.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        the fastest hard drive you can get.

        I’m assuming that by “hard drive”, you mean “don’t actually use a hard drive unless you need extra storage”. You’d want an SSD for speed.

    • WastedJobe
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      310 months ago

      I agree in principle, but knowing what people pay for a kb that doesn’t even have a numpad I would raise the usefulness cutoff to around 100.