What did you actually spend most of those 100 hours on? The fishing and talking to townsfolk part makes it sound like you were doing a lot of standing around and not much farming. I ask because 6 months for a greenhouse is wild, but if you were mostly just hanging out with the NPCs and wandering the map, that changes how I read the number. Do you ever set goals for a session, or do you just log in and see where the day takes you?

Man, I feel this in my bones. I've got a whole drawer of stuff that the scanner made obsolete, vacuum gauge, dwell meter, the works, but I still grab them when something feels off. Had a rough idle last month that the live data showed as "fine" but my old vacuum gauge told me I had a leak at the intake gasket. Scanner would've had me chasing sensors all day. Those old tools teach you how things actually work instead of just telling you what's broken. Your mentor wasn't wrong about the light, he just didn't know the scanner could save you an hour too. Keep both, that's the move.