• ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
    26•4 months ago

    The same touchscreen gloves I got two years ago that are no longer being made. There’s three pairs on eBay and if no one buys them for me I’m buying them all for myself.

  • @OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
    1•4 months ago

    I want a 2" diameter curling iron. I can’t find them anywhere in store. They only go up to a 1 1/2" for some reason.

    Also, I just killed my hair dryer last night so now I need a new one.

    Unfortunately, there two items became needed over the past few days so it’s too late to ask anyone for them. I’ll just get them myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
    5•4 months ago

    I’m certain I won’t get it, as it’s not on my wishlist nor have I ever mentioned it to anyone, but my number one desired object right now is a life-sized, anatomically correct model of a specific non-human animal body part.

  • @93maddie94@lemm.ee
    2•4 months ago

    Some things for my daughter’s room (a nightstand, a bedding set, and a table lamp) to help her transition to a “big girl bed” from her crib. But they’re not “fun” gifts or toys so I’m not expecting to get them even though they’d be the most helpful. She has enough toys.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
    14•4 months ago

    A no gifts agreement. You get nothing, I get nothing, we all save money and some sanity while not feeding the system by collectively buying a ton of unnecessary stuff at double the prices.

    But anyway, if I wanted something, a Mullvad voucher would be useful.
    Something cool, but mostly just a toy, an external eUICC chip, “eSIM adapter”. Either JMP because their app is open-source and on F-Droid, or 9esim because it’s far cheaper and has more storage. But as I said, it’s not something I need, mostly would serve me as a toy and I’d have a bunch of random foreign eSIM profiles. There’s even some free eSIMs like Firsty Free that I’d like to try. They promise “basic speed” unlimited data access with a time limit for watching ads. But there’s also some like BNESIM which have no expiration and some usable prepaid data amount.
    My current phone doesn’t support eSIMs natively, but seems to support the required OMAPI to make this work.

    ThinkPad Thales card would be far cheaper, and probably work too (with EasyLPAC), but it’s out of stock everywhere.

    But again, not something I need, just something for fun.

    • hendrikEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      What are you doing with all that phone stuff? I thought we’re using the internet these days instead of calling people. Or do you just travel much and need the data plans for different countries/continents?

        • hendrikEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          Seems that way. I mean each Google, Claude, Discord, Instagram, … account might require a phone number for “verification” these days. I thought about getting 4 more phones myself.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
        4•4 months ago

        What are you doing with all that phone stuff?

        Nothing, I don’t have any.

        I thought we’re using the internet these days instead of calling that much.

        A lot of cheap eSIMs are actually data-only, i.e.: you don’t get a phone number.

        Or do you just travel much and need the data plans for different countries/continents?

        No, not at all. I just get interested in random crap, and now it’s SIM cards it seems. Either way, some of these manage to be cheaper than many local offers, or even completely free as I mentioned.

        Another thing is some countries, unlike mine, don’t require ID verification. So no scanning of your ID card, scanning your face, or perhaps physically sending signed documents via mail and waiting 3 - 5 business days to get your SIM card activated like I had to do with my carrier. e-mail should be enough. This way, phone numbers can be as disposable as e-mail addresses which is just awesome when using some untrusted services that want your phone number.

        Lastly, coverage. I already purchased T-Mobile physical SIM from Czech Republic (and yay it works). T-Mobile seems to try to get as many roaming partners as possible in every country. In mine, that’s 3 out of 4, and 4th one is my main carrier. So I can connect to every carrier in my country with these 2 SIMs. I just find that pretty cool.
        I told you, I get interested by random crap.

        Next on my list is GiffGaff (United Kingdom) which I can get for free shipped anywhere in Europe and can also be activated from abroad (as far as I can tell) like that T-Mobile card.

        • hendrikEnglish
          2•4 months ago

          Fair enough. I mean the “because I can” argument is valid. At least in my eyes. I wish I had like 4 or 5 more phone numbers available to sign up on various platforms. Maybe I should collect some phone numbers, too. Or like 50 and I’d start my own temp-number.com service.

  • @steeznson@lemmy.world
    2•4 months ago

    I want my council tax bill paid. They didn’t take it for two years straight due to an administrative error - I even had a direct debit setup - but have only just now realised on their side and now they want all of it back at once. Paid off a big lump of it immediately but had to go on a payment plan where they take an extra £400 per month for the next quarter.

    • thermal_shockEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      I HATE how errors like this favor the company. THEY fucked up, but can just dump it all on you.

      yes they can argue that you shouldn’t have spent the money and should have noticed, but if it were reversed, they’d fight to not pay you and delay it most likely. people that don’t understand “shit happens” suck.

  • palordrolap
    3•4 months ago

    Obligatory impractical / intangible: Four decades of excellent, indefatigable mental health.

    Outlandish: The double glazing is overdue for replacing. (Follow-up: Someone to clean up the inevitable mess that would make.)

    Practical: Cotton boxers. I asked for slippers instead. (If this startles you from some kind of reverie, and the double glazing thing wasn’t a hint, I am British and middle aged. Slippers are a necessity.)

  • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    With the way the weather goes anymore due to climate change in my area, a white Christmas. I think either last year or the year before we had one, but that also came with the first subzero temperatures I’ve ever dealt with.

    This year there’s been basically no snow at all outside of maybe a day or less and not even that cold. I’ve been able to use a leather jacket I’ve been wearing most of fall and haven’t needed to pull out my actual winter coat besides once this December. I really do like my winter coat, so I’m bummed about that, but also bummed because I associate Chrismas with snow because there was always snow every winter in my hometown compared to now.

  • Like the wind...English
    11•4 months ago

    To win a housing lottery so I can move the fuck out like why the fuck do you need to be lUcKy to FUCKING LIVE IN THE CITY YOU WERE FUCKING BORN IN? Some apartments and condos had yearly incomes of 100k to 150k yearly. Bro. If you’re making One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars every year, you’re most likely making $1500 a week. You should be considered rich or well off. Why the absolute fuck are literal rich people unable to fucking just live on their own in their city without needing to be lucky? The US Government is a humongous failure. Any country with homeless and desperately poor people has a failed government. Then you have these exact poor people fighting each other for enough money to escape poverty on Mr Beast Games and everyone’s watching it without understanding how fucked that is. That poor people are given a carrot on a stick to chase for everyone’s entertainment.