If you are bored and want to invest less that £100 in a second hand smoothing plane and a saw you can still make cutting boards!
Power tools are easier to learn to use, are more expensive, noisier, more dangerous, and turn wood into dust. Hand tools are more physically demanding, take up little space, are a pleasure to use, are quiet, and turn wood into lovely long shavings and coarse dust that falls onto the floor.
I was a professional woodworker for a decade, I rarely use power tools now if I can help it
Power tools are easier to learn to use, are more expensive, noisier, more dangerous, and turn wood into dust. Hand tools are more physically demanding, take up little space, are a pleasure to use, are quiet, and turn wood into lovely long shavings and coarse dust that falls onto the floor.
I was a professional woodworker for a decade, I rarely use power tools now if I can help it