i feel like it’s impossible to have hobbies while being poor and living the the third world. i cant pay to go to some sort of activity like i’d like to (martial arts, or some physical activity), and technology is mostly out of my reach, recently a ram stick and my 5tb hdd died, so now i have very low storage and memory, so everything is painful. i can’t self host much because otherwise i cant daily drive. now i cant even hoard stuff. i know there is stuff i cant do but not necessarily stuff i want to do. i see a lot of people here that sometimes share their setups and i really feel envious. games are getting more expensive too, the internet may soon be an id verified shithole. it seems like every facet of existence is turning into shit.
Yup similar feeling here. I’ll keep running stuff that’s 8 years old and maybe get my local technician to inspect one of my broken systems. It’d be cheaper to restore one of my 2018 systems and just stay with first generation SSD and DDR4 RAM for another 3-5 years until something changes in my life. Some Linux desktops are pretty fast to run on old hardware but I’m also wary that I may hit the limit in the next few years.
Rent, food and everything costs a lot of money. The jobs are high-stress and I can’t work for long before I have to quit. Technology is expensive to replace and maybe in the future I’ll try to have a lineageOS phone mostly for calls and messages and web browsing. Then I can escape planned obsolescence and help others escape the trap too. Right now I’m rationing apps on my phone - I got rid of 2 chat apps so that it doesn’t chew the battery or make my phone freeze all the time. Can’t afford the RAM and CPU to run these apps lol. It just kills my poor phone. I’m seriously thinking about getting a budget Opel phone but I think the audio quality is crap and it’s hard to hear on a cheap phone even at maximum volume.
