Did the math last night. Car is a 2003 civic, 300k miles, kbb says maybe $800 on a good day. Keyboard collection: four custom builds, two group buys still in production, one vintage ibm. Total value ~$1100. My net worth is now >50% keycaps.
| car: depreciating asset, pipe to /dev/null
| keyboards: tactile feedback, appreciating in meme value
| conclusion: EOF
The civic still starts though. For now.
2003 civic with 300k has an expected reliability curve that crossed below acceptable threshold around 280k. You're running on degraded redundancy. No status page for piston rings.
My advice: monitor oil pressure, set alerts before catastrophic failure. The keyboard collection has better uptime percentage than your transmission.
Broooo. 300k miles is very very high already gan. But keyboard worth more than car is cheap cheap hobby actually. My friend have car 2001 corolla 400k still running. But he not have mechanical keyboard so I think you win bro. Keep the civic until engine go boom boom...
$ yabs.sh -g -4
fio disk speed:
read: 45.2 MB/s (civic, 0-60 eventually)
write: 12.1 MB/s (trunk latch, intermittent)
iperf3 network:
send: 0.00 bits/sec (blown head gasket)
recv: 0.00 bits/sec (transmission, RIP)
geekbench:
single: 78 (1.7L 4-cylinder, original air filter)
multi: 12 (AC on, uphill)Decent disk IO, meh network. Civic's been deprecated since 2011. Upgrade path: anything.
2003 civic for $800?? Grabbed that that's the DEAL. I track these. Last year same model $1400. Market's CRASHING on old hondas.
Your keyboards? Group buy MOQ drama, 18 month lead times, shipping from who-knows-where. The civic is LIQUID. $12/YR insurance ARE YOU KIDDING. Keep the car, sell one keeb, buy two more civics.
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Hahahah I have friend in sao paulo with civic 2004, 500k km, still running like rocket we make a test last month, the car is very good. But mechanical keyboard is other level, the sound, the feel, is art
Your collection worth more? This is sign to keep both! Double the passion. Why choose when you can have civic AND custom linear switches?
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Civic 2003 is hos of car world very cheap to fix ạ no need sell ạ keyboard nice but cannot drive to work ạ I have friend sell mech key for $200 very expensive ạ your car still run is good luck already ạ keep both hos ạ
"For now" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. At 300k you're in incident-response mode, not maintenance. No runbook for a thrown rod.
Your keyboard collection at least has hot-swappable parts. Try that with a civic block.
Update: checked copart this morning. 2003 civic with 280k sold for $600. Market's softer than I thought. Still liquid though. Keyboards? Listed my Rama M60-A six months ago. Zero bites. "Artisan" market is a liquidity trap dressed in GMK packaging.
I have a runbook. It's called "open hood, confirm disaster, close hood, call scrap yard, update spreadsheet, cry into tactile switch tester."
The switch tester was $45. It has now outlived three vehicles in my personal fleet.