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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

90% of people here would have to say "my car".

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What would be some commonly unused features?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Driving it, believe it or not. Even a car that's used to commute to work every day still sits parked most of the day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But, like, cats wear out by use, not time. (For the most part.)

A car is good for, say, 300,000 km. If you drive 300K in it, then you "fully used" the car.

That's like saying a pad of paper isn't used when it's sitting on your shelf. Technically true, maybe, but the pad is used up when it's out of sheets. It doesn't make sense to measure the utilization time for a consumable, like paper or a car.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well true, the engine may be good for 300k miles. But if it sits parked all the time, the body will rust long before you get to "fully use" it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100% agree on "car" and came to the comments with it in mind.

As much as it sits unused the majority of the time though, that isn't what I was thinking - what I was thinking is how I've never get to "fully use" it, or any sports car I've owned for that matter, as to me fully using it would entail bringing it to a track, REALLY putting it through it's paces, and pushing it to the limits it was actually designed for. While it is great fun to drive (safely) around town, and comfort and luxury were absolutely large parts of the engineering that went into it, it's hardly living up to it's full potential!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2020 Shelby Mustang GT350R. I paid $80k for it and then another $25k at Shelby American in Vegas for the signature edition package. Bought it new in 2020 and it now has about 1500 miles on it.

It was my dream car but I just never have the time to drive it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Trust me, it will go up in value... In 2070.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A Fender Telecaster. I love it, but my health isn't good enough to let me play on it very much. Plus, I sometimes wonder if I should've gone for a lighter guitar...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My camera (Nikon Z6) has a lot of features I never use and probably never will. Bit it's still an amazing camera that I can use to take photos with that I couldn't with other Nikon cameras I could afford. So it doesn't matter if it has a weird feature I don't use when I regularly make use of a feature it does so well. Paired with an old 70-200 2.8 I have taken a lot of photos I would have previously not have dreamed possible with my older camera setups.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

An ecoflow battery generator. Granted, it's a small-ish one but I got this itch to purchase one after seeing one in action while car camping ("I can use my hot water kettle while camping, how cool!") and when our city was warning us about widespread power outages from an upcoming winter storm ("to keep our devices powered up").

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