I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don’t hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don’t even use.
Games on Steam sales.
Using the Steam refund system more actively has helped me a lot in this regard. At this point I refund about 80% of my purchases - simply because a lot of the games do not engage me after the first 40 minutes.
I bought so many games on sale after I got my first grown-up job, that just ended up sitting in my library while I played the same 3 games. I bought a Steam Deck 6 months ago and it’s been great for clearing out my backlog. I love being able to play games sitting in the recliner instead of at a desk.
I bought an immersion blender on like prime day or black Friday with grandiose plans of using it for all kinds of things. 3 years later, and it’s still in the box
Split pea soup
Refried beans, or short burst to thicken bean pot
Protein shakes
Cast Iron Pan - I don’t cook enough to justify it. Girlfriend at the time thought it was a good idea, and she used it a bunch, but now it’s just in the cabinet probably rusting up.
Humidifier - It gets really dry in here and it was recommended as a solution to my dry eyes. But it’s a pain to clean and refill, so it mostly just sits there.
Robo vacuum - It wasn’t great at navigating the apartment, so I didn’t use its auto schedule thing. Then the cat hair overwhelmed it. It is languishing in the closet. I got some use out of it, at least, driving it around like an RC Car, but I ended up buying a more robust manual vacuum cleaner
Sonos speaker. I have Google Home speakers around the house and we use them to play music. Sonos almost never get used
What don’t you like about them? I’ve just gotten a set for my TV and really look forward to expanding to the rest of the house.
They’re expensive, but they sound amazing and they’re so easy to use.
Not the original commenter but for me it was that they didn’t integrate well into my multi-device management platform and instead required you to use Sonos’s platform and products to play on multiple devices. The sound was decent but I only had one and it didn’t work with my other speakers so it rarely got used.
Yeah, the thing about the Sonos system is that they’re made to work together with other Sonos speakers. You either go all in or not at all.
Also the Google speakers are usually good enough, and way cheaper.
A Nintendo Switch. A Steam Deck would probably be a better purchase.
So many untouched videogames.
My ab roller.
The 1kg bag of brown rice I bought to be healthier.
Amazon Prime.
A fake olive tree that sits in my living room.
My Steam library
Have I got some good news for you then.
One cannot buy digital content with DRM, only rent it.
It’s impossible to regret acquisitions you’ve never made.
Point in case. You can sell on your physical games. Not so much the digital ones.
All that said, I too use Steam, just not mainly anymore.
Have you tried selling physical PC games lately?
DRM has nothing to do with how you buy your content (DVDs and Blurays also have DRM, for example).Also some Steam games have no DRM.
I was thinking of sites like GOG when I wrote my comment.
I have never heard of a Steam game you could run without having Steam installed
Or buying them, for that matter?
You know, indie devs want to eat and be rewarded for their work
Where in my comment does it state that I don’t pay indie devs?
I spend money on Steam, but I have no allusions that I’m not owning the things I get there.
I’d much rather have a title on GOG than Steam. At least there I get to keep it.
Than sell an actual product DRM free or something, I’m not renting shit anymore.
Then buy on gog.com
I do.
This used to be true, but not anymore (if you live in the EU)! https://www.eurogamer.net/eu-rules-publishers-cannot-stop-you-reselling-your-downloaded-games
That said I know what you’re saying and this change doesn’t make it so you own the games, they’re just allowing you to resell the right to download and play on Steam, blabla. But it’s better than it used to be.
That’s amazing. How do I sell my steam games ? is there a way ?
My headphone pads on a pair of Sony MD7506 were fraying apart, so I bought a pair of $3 replacement pads online. While I was buying those, I noticed a nice looking $30 pair made of sheepskin leather. I bought those, too and figured I’d just use the $3 pair until they inevitably wore out, and then switch to the nice ones. Well, it’s been some time now and the $3 pair are apparently far more robust than their forebears. The sheepskin remain in their packaging untouched. One day…
A few dozen boards games, some crazy expensive. The most recent one was the Witcher which was a Kickstarter campaign. I bought a label maker, small zip lock bags, spent a few hours punching out paper tokens and and sorting everything. Haven’t played a single game.
It is actually a pretty fun game if you do get a chance to play it!
I made a habit of checking out Goodwill for boardgames. Best one yet was King of Tokyo for maybe $10. Like new condition.
PSVR - fun for a week but otherwise useless.
I think the story of VR in general. Fun for a few weeks, then great dust collectors
Great for sport though, !beatsaber@lemmy.ml
I heard the psvr2 is getting pc compatibility. I might get it then because the price is lower than the index and supposedly has good enough outside-in tracking vs outside-in tracking and the features sure do look nice.
FYI - it might get PC support
The PSVR2, not the first.
Love mine, but a few hundred hours into GT7 and I’m kinda bored. But I think that has a lot to do with the terrible UI more than the gameplay.
Console VR is useless, Sony’s first party stuff is not better than any indie.
Collected wine. Still have lots of it, don’t really drink anymore, and have no storage space. Don’t ask.
My smartwatch purchase partially. It’s a Galaxy Watch4 Classic, it does stuff like track my workouts, heartrate, etc., run WearOS-optimized apps that I basically never use like Spotify, and I have to charge it every 2 days. I noticed that the only real feature I need is to get my phone’s notifications on my wrist. Not really worth the € 200-300 purchase imo, but it works okay-ish.
I got a xiaomi fitness band and it got the feature you wanted and also cheaper and durable. One of the best purchase i’ve ever had.
I would just say that not everything needs to be a BIFL product, but there can be a tendency to push towards recommending only buying the best of everything. Like, I cook a lot at home, so it made sense to buy a $200 chef’s knife that I’ll get tons of use from and decent sharpening stones to maintain the edge. I listen to a ton of music, so I’ve dropped probably around $1500 into a pretty good pair of headphones, a DAC and an amp. On the other hand, I solder like once every couple of years, so getting my cheapo $40 Amazon special made more sense than dropping $500 on a much better soldering iron that offers features I simply don’t need and won’t benefit from. Sometimes good enough is exactly that, but it can be a nuance lost in these discussions.
Heck, even though I use them several hours a day, my hearing just isn’t that good for me to justify spending a substantial amount upgrading my current audio gear. Even if there is an improvement to be had, I’m not sure it would be something I could even notice, so I’m not tempted to go down the rabbit-hole of upgrading my DAC, amp or headphones, as it would be chasing diminishing returns that I’m not even sure would be perceptible for me at a simple biological level.
I bought a tech wood infrared double burner hot plate. It just doesn’t boil. I’m dying over here trying to boil water and it just won’t. So, I dumped everything into the insta-pot beside it in the office break room… set it to sauté* and that shit boiled right away.
I’m about to return this POS and buy a single burner hot plate, but then I start all over again researching.
It killed me when Charlie responds to “boilerplate language” with “Yep, we’ll all be getting back to our hotplates soon enuff!”
Filibuster.
Maybe need to get induction instead of radiant? Induction is much more efficient.
I bought a cheap induction element after my landlord replaced my cooktop with one that I hate because the elements are tiny. It is so much better than a standard cooktop that I pretty much use it exclusively.
Get an induction plate.
There are three things, off the top of my head, that I can recall buying but either not using very much or not for it’s intended purpose. The first item is a portable bluetooth keyboard, I got it for the purpose of playing games on my android devices with it but the problem is that I haven’t found many games that actually even have keyboard support. The second item is a portable bluetooth mouse, it’s the same as the keyboard but with the additional issue of not working with my tablet for some reason. The third item is a DS flashcart, I forgot what it’s called but it’s the one from Datel and I had so many problems with it that I’ve been using it’s “Gigapack” for transferring small files between my two computers.
I feel you on the keyboard, bought an Android controller years ago, but only ever used to play emulators on it since no game besides Megaman X Dive had controller support, to this day Genshin only has controller support over on iphone, fuck them. Silver lining is that it works fine on PC so it became the second player anytime a friend is over.
