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Henderson Hummel on consumerism in electronics tinkering
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I look at it like a puzzle - how long can I work with what I have? You’d be surprised sometimes how well you can do without a purpose-built item, or even how eventually you might end up preferring whatever you started with. There’s a big social element to this, in that there can exist a culture within a hobby or professional circle about what is “required” and it can take a certain amount of “waking up” to realize that this is total bull.
Anyways, buying stuff: it’s a question of balance always. I can’t put a post like this out without encouraging balance.