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  • It is also about how many people are interested. There are a lot of collectors items worth a lot of money because there are more people collecting than interested, there are also a lot that are not worth much because every collector that wants one has one already. Often there is a curve because when collectors get interested they pay money, which causes people who have one gathering dust in the attic to get it out and sell it and soon the market is saturated.

    You have no idea what collectors will care about in 20-50 years. As such investing in something because collectors will care about it and make it worth money is not a good idea. However there are a lot of neat things out there so if you like it go ahead and collect it - if you are the only one interested in 50 years well you have yours, if everyone wants it maybe you can pay for a nice nursing home from the sale. Either way if you have something you need to either enjoy it or use it.









  • I’m very careful about what I buy. Only high quality stuff that I research first. Just because it is a good deal doesn’t mean I need to buy it - if I’m not 100% sure I need to use it I won’t buy it. I find it hard to get rid of stuff so I’m attacking the problem from the other end: quit buying more stuff. If I do buy it I get the best so it will last a long time (I’m not getting rid of it!)

    Every once in a while I will look at something and decide I really don’t need it. However this is rare. When something breaks I either fix it or get rid of it, but again rare. (I have a to fix pile that I slowly am working on…)




  • First question: what will you do about data backup? Nextcloud and Immich both imply important data that you don’t want to lose. You say you have some harddrives, so look for some computer that can take more than one harddrive and then setup RAID with snapshots. I’d go for a RAID setup such that you need two drives to fail before you lose data, but there are plenty of debate. We often say RAID is not a backup - you should start thinking about the next step in your backup setup soon.

    Used vs new is always the question. In general the newer the system the less power it will use to do the same work. However ARM will almost always use less power than x86 even if the x86 is much newer. I specified work here, your computer will nothing most of the time so idle power matters too.