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.
computer keyboards i will never understand paying more than 20 bucks for one
Then you should avoid going down the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards.
I made this mistake, some friend talked me on to them. I wouldn’t say worst mistake, caz I have a nice keyboard now, but dang it was expensive and not even close as good as how much it was hyped.
I bought a couple different super cheap mechs (browns for when my partner is sleeping, blues for KLIK KLACC) and they’re SO MUCH BETTER than I expected. They were under 40USD each and have full RGB.
My refurbished IBM Model M from 1984 agrees.
The best rabbit hole!
My nice mechanical keyboard is 13 years old. They last, and if you’re going to have something for decades, why not have a nice one?
More helpful advice is don’t spend money on gaming anything. It’s 10x more expensive and it’s fucking shit. The industry sees gamers are marks and will absolutely fleece you on overpriced and horrible quality ‘gaming’ products which are cheaply made and planned obsolesce to shit.
You can get a way more comfortable experience at a way lower cost by buying office equipment instead. I have a logitech wireless headset that has been in use for 2 years, and in storage for another 2. I plugged it in and it still fucking works. The literal foam on the ears has dusted away but everything else about it is just as good as when I bought it. The same can’t be said for my crappy gaming headset which was uncomfortable out of the box, hardly lasted a full year before deteriorating, and is now all but inoperable. Not user serviceable, either.