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I would never buy the subscriptions that most people buy (YouTube Premium, Netflix or similar). It's just too easy to pirate.
I don't know if never.
But I don't want a smartwatch.
I've never carried a watch in general and I don't see the appeal of it when I carry a smartphone all day anyway.
I freaking love wearing a wristwatch, but it's most useful for stuff when you're running around grabbing stuff trying to get kids out the door, or carrying a ton of stuff while setting up/tearing down a display for an event, basically situations not condusive to most smart watches where you have to do a gesture of some kind to wake the screen, you just want to quickly glance and continue
Also having been getting heavy into fitness (biking specifically but also some running and hiking), I get how cool having heart data and whatnot is, but ehhhh. Kinda not really necessary. I get handy GPS data from my phone and that's sufficient. I can't do anything meaningful with the heart data, but I can make very useful decisions with distance/time metrics! Or when lifting just knowing the weight I'm working with, how many sets & reps is more than enough
I was in the same boat until I started running. It's very nice to monitor heart rate so you can stick to a target heart rate.
I have been happy with my Garmin. It is functional without having to connect to anything, and data can be easily exported to a computer for more advanced processing. It is a handy GPS receiver that lets me monitor heart rate and log running metrics.
Smart - anything.
Why do you need a smart doorbell? Why do you need a smart appliance? You're just inviting waves of survelliance not to mention the bandwidth from all of that shit having to tap into the internet.
Car. I hope I never have to buy a car. They suck.
Holiday decorations. They are just plastic shit. Put a gun to my head, I would already know that every other weekend estate sale is going to have a whole room full of decor that is headed for a landfill. Some psychotics even buy new gimcrack every single year. They are evil, and they need to be stopped.
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Smart home devices. IOT devices. Subscriptions to things I paid for at purchase (car stuff like upgraded performance or heated seats)
Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, Hulu, Netflix, Xbox, PlayStation, Disney+, HBO, Tesla vehicles, dating apps,
No drugs tho ? Dudes raw dogging life.
Drugs cost money. Am maxxed out with food, shelter, & transportation expenses. Exercise is my drug. It's a FREE daily endorphin/adrenaline high, & it's healthy, & all the side effects are positive, with no withdrawals, no hangovers, & improves body, thinking clarity, relationships, and as a bonus get to date hot people because exercise makes us all smokin hot.
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Most people go to the supermarket and buy cruelty, torture, violence, atrocity, and slavery.
Digital media. It's too easy to pirate. There's no reason not to other than being a good boy. The only way I could see myself going legit is if they started to make really good public digital libraries and I could download anything I wanted from a single source with a library card of some kind. The exception to this would be online games but the ones I like to play happen to be free lol.
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