I’ve definitely bought myself something more than a few times to try and fill an emptiness inside. It makes you feel better for about a day or less, then you go back to feeling how you did before.
That’s why I buy myself projects that frustrate me for several days, before they make me feel better for a day or less, and then I go back to how I did before.
Just get into a hobby that you only have to do so often. Then you can frustrate yourself, feel better, feel normal again, then forget about it for 2 months.
Reusing frustration to conserve me frustration for what else is coming.
Exactly, like a 10gbe nic to transfer all those pics you never take faster to your server, or maybe some heatsinks for your nvme drives so the degrees go down a little and you can see some data on benchmarks change a little
I’ve definitely bought myself something more than a few times to try and fill an emptiness inside. It makes you feel better for about a day or less, then you go back to feeling how you did before.
That’s why I buy myself projects that frustrate me for several days, before they make me feel better for a day or less, and then I go back to how I did before.
I really get my money’s worth that way…I guess…
Just get into a hobby that you only have to do so often. Then you can frustrate yourself, feel better, feel normal again, then forget about it for 2 months.
Reusing frustration to conserve me frustration for what else is coming.
It works better of you buy something that has additional positives. Like a new oven and cooking more often or something to do sports.
But ya, I know that feeling.
All of my backpacking equipment made me feel very happy when purchasing it, and it still does every time I use it, or see it.
Exactly, like a 10gbe nic to transfer all those pics you never take faster to your server, or maybe some heatsinks for your nvme drives so the degrees go down a little and you can see some data on benchmarks change a little
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Or that video game that is on sale in the off chance you remember to play it later if you happen to be browsing your 200+ game library.
Which game will make me feel any sort of desire to play a game again?
I’m always looking for a game that is the perfect mix of like two games
Reminds me of this comic: https://theawkwardyeti.com/comic/the-new-thing/