For a gadget geek, working in the modern world is like being a starving man with a prepaid gift card in a large suburban grocery store. Where to start? What will nourish, and what should be rationed as a treat? Experience as a carpenter helps contextualize technology as what it is: a storehouse of tools. For a task at hand, the question is whether the tool (and learning to use it) enables a net improvement. Longer-term, does the the tool have the capacity to expand what you can do? Otherwise, categorize it as a toy to play with in your spare time, perhaps to bring into service when your skills and needs change.