[Tcepsa]

Somewhat, mainly out of frugality, but I also feel in some ways that we (my family and I) are still being pretty extravagant. I have a desktop (that's probably 9 years old for the MB/processor and a GPU that's about the same vintage--though I upgraded to 16 GB RAM last year, and the case is going on 20 or so by now ("is this not my family's axe?"))

Spouse has a Surface tablet that's only a couple years newer

Dedicated "desktop" computers for the kids (~$300 NUC-like) and another one for a media center/central home server

Spouse and I each have our own decent but not top of the line phones, and there's a phone for each kid as well (which, even more than the computers, we try to emphasize are for their use but not under their ownership, to minimize fights over what they can have on them)

So far I feel like it's been a good compromise between lavish spending on unnecessary things, investing in growth and development, and a few indulgences here and there or what's the point of working so hard?

I love the retro aesthetic. I use i3 for my window manager. I'm encouraging (and helping) my kids to learn Vim and Emacs, and hope to switch them over to Linux at some point because I feel at this point that it offers a genuinely better UX for most of the things we want to do, and the only reason to use Windows at all is for things that Just Don't Work on Linux (looking at you, Minecraft Bedrock!)