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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you buy a flagship for the cameras, buy last year's flagship second hand. You will end up spending half the money. Plus more or less all flagships have atleast 4 years of security updates, so you can use it for 3 years or longer comfortably.

Flagship cameras have started to peak with this year, atleast on the Chinese end. American ones have to catchup for a few years. And in 3 years or so, we could see them trickle down to budget midrange $300 phones, atleast outside of USA, where anticapitalist freedom exists.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Chinese end.

anticapitalist freedom

This is odd to see in the same comment.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Well, China is evidently not focused on money grubbing and wallet lynching, the way Western capitalist economies are, so.....

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excuse my ignorance, why would I need to worry about security updates on a camera?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was speaking about phones... and I accidentally ended up with a Freudian slip, because smartphones are more like cameras with a calling ability nowadays.