• JustVik@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    I would buy cheap electronic parts to build something like a Risc-v handheld(or PDA) computer to replace a smartphone with easily replaceable parts. This might help me figure out how to work with mipi dsi displays and how to write drivers for them. :) And besides that, I would stock up on canned food and maybe a solar panel capable of charging a laptop, for example.

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      10 hours ago

      Technically you’re using it to buy a house, so I guess that qualifies as spending it?

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        9 hours ago

        I actually did do that, the advantage of having rich grandparents. It’s amazing how once you get a bit of money the system just throws advantages at you. Capitalism really is broken.

        Because I was able to get together enough money to be able to buy a house and put down quite a lot in collateral, my mortgage repayments aren’t very much, considerably less than I was paying monthly in rent, even when you take into account that the rent included water bills.

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    9 hours ago

    How is this even a question. If you have a mortgage you pay off your mortgage, or at least as much as they let you, anything else would go on a new car.

    I would like to get my house renovated but that’s going to take more than a day.

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      11 hours ago

      I do not understand that, in my country abortions are free

      (ok, not actually free. You need to pay 15 euro for the blood test, a 30 euro tax, 2 euro for the hospital parking fee and around 10 euro to buy the painkiller or antibiotics after the operation)

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        10 hours ago

        Dude, I wish I lived in a civilized country. My cancer treatment would have cost somewhere in the range of $5 million without insurance. Healthcare is a human right

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    9 hours ago

    New computer and I’d get my car overhauled at a specialist and there goes like, 15k. Or more if my car has issues I don’t know about

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    13 hours ago

    Does the government know I have it? Because it will cut off my disability, my medical, food stamps, and I’ll loose the ability too live anymore.

    But of course I would spend it on basic necessities if the government won’t know about it, stock pile of non perishable foods, toilet paper, fixing the broken shit around my place (as much as my landlord allows) maybe a new bed that’s not 10 years old.

    It’s not real that much but it would help my quality of life for a bit longer I guess

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    14 hours ago

    No one wants to donate it to charity of my choosing?

    (What if the charity is just a thin veil over my own account)