I get a kick out of getting extremely cheap things in the mail. Last month, I bought a brand-new watch from aliexpress for less than $4 shipped to me. I thought I was going to get a cheaply made watch that would fall apart in a day. What I got was a well-made and sturdy watch. I suspect it will last me as long as the battery lasts. But a watch for such a low price., just the shipping and handling had to be more than $4. It's nuts.
Yeah aliexpress is crazy too good to be true
Last month. I bought two PCs, a 14" laptop and one of those small 1L desktops. After about 5 years on Macs, I was excited to go back on Linux and have agency on my computer again. I got into computer by tinkering and the way MacOS goes out of the way to prevent you from doing that was grating. I crafted my own environment and while things are not as perfect as on MacOS, it's mine and I know enough to fix it. The Macs are still here if I need something that work well (zoom call), but with the PC, daily computing is fun again.
I bought a set of LED headlights for the car and they arrived Wednesday. Installing them was fairly easy. It's amazing how much better I can see while driving out in the countryside.
Before that was walking out of Microcenter with 7 computers, and 2 power supplies for less than $50. (Raspberry pi picos)
I really like to get used books from amazon. Recently I purchased “Seeing like a state” and it has many pencil marks and event newspaper page. It’s always exciting for me to feel this presence of other person who read a book I’m reading
I periodically (~once/year) build giant Lego sets, and they're generally quite exciting to receive.
I ordered a two inch tungsten ball. Very excited to get it in 3 days, and hold it in my hand.
Kinesis Advantage360 Keyboard. Solved so many RSI symptoms in one shot.
I bought a Kanjo mat on Amazon and was pretty excited when it showed up. It feels as good as I thought it would!
Last year, Tears of the Kingdom. I took the week off work for it.
Buying books always excite me. Game of thrones books. C programming books.
Really haven't been excited for anything. But the last thing I bought a couple of months ago was a Phone/Tablet holder that is pretty awesome from Temu. For $4 it was a great buy.
https://share.temu.com/nBTi085hSXA
not going to click that link, satan.
Even knowing the psychological hacks they use to prey on human emotions and attention spans doesn't stop me from ending up buying crap from them if I have that app installed and open it. Spin to win takes just enough time and it's exactly distracting enough that I forget why I opened the app and then I'm sucked in and spend way more than $4.
uConsole on preorder! Waited a whole six months. I thought it would be the size of a blackberry, though it is actually the size of a medium sized paperback book.
The craftsmanship is excellent and it is gratifying to hold.