Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people’s way of earning, for example fishing.
I write software for fun and give it away. I also write software for money and don’t give it away.
🤘 Ditto!
Good man!
So many
Homelab
Buy broken electronics, repair, resell (so like microsoldering, diagnosing, etc)
Woodworking but I’m bad at it
Cooking
Music but I’m bad at it
3d printing/cad but I’m bad at cad
Language study 日本語
Pcb design and some coding related to this but I’m bad at it
It’s why I get the anti work people. If I could change careers every few years I would. I love learning about new stuff. I post a lot but most of the time I do that is either when I have idle time at work, before or right after work (although sometimes it leaks into weekends). I hate the phrase jack of all trades master of none, it’s cool to know about a lot of things (as long as you recognize the limitations of your knowledge)
I recently learned that the full quote goes like this: “Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one.” Thought that might reconcile you with the phrase :)
You can also be a jack of all trades, master of some. Or a lot. Or most. 🤝
Or, you can be, Abserd!
it doesn’t matter whether you’re good at it or bad at it. As long as you enjoy what you do, that’s all that matters :)
Does 日本語 mean “I’m bad at it”
Ha no, it means Japanese (or Japanese language). The kanji would be pronounced “nihongo”
Fixing bikes. But if I had to do it for a job, under time pressure, I’d hate it. Give me all afternoon to fix a bike and let me put on a 5 hour podcast about the collapse of the Aztec empire, that’s my happy place
I would like to know which podcast covers the fall of the Aztec empire for 5 hours. Asking for a friend
It’s Fall of Civilizations. The Aztec episode is actually only 4h 15mins, alas
http://historyonfirepodcast.com/episodes/tag/Aztec
You will not be disappointed.
Thanks for this one can never have enough shit to listen while gardening
and doing laundry
Sex
Photography.
I’ve been doing it for a long time and I’m still somewhat mediocre. It could theoretically make me money, but for me the excuse for not doing it boils down to “but it would require me to deal with people”, given that most sought-after and commercially viable things to shoot are weddings, graduations and so on. In the end I keep it as something I (mostly) enjoy and occasionally do as favours to friends and family. I mostly shoot live music in order to support the local scene; I also do extreme sports and a bit of wildlife & landscapes.
I do almost the same thing as a(n unpaid) hobby that I do as my (paid) job. I’m a software developer who writes open-source software on the side.
I’ve also seen a few of my other hobbies grow into serious industries with real employees. The (hobby) drone industry and the 3D printing industry are quite large and growing (I assume).
Self hosting, I guess it makes me an IT person as a hobby?
Self-hosting*
Selfhosting*
Hosting of the self*
I make espresso.
Linux Sysadmin here.
I have a couple open source apps/scripts that have tens of stars and ones of forks. I’m also getting into micro soldering to fix electronics. Mostly for myself but I’ll hardmod or fix friends equipment for cost of parts. I’ve been known to buy a broken console, fix it, mod it, then sell it for some extra cash to buy more soldering equipment.
That reminds me of the box of half-broken Game Boys from back when I got really into chiptune … I kinda get backpain from soldering, though, any tips on that? Other than “go see a doctor”, of course.
Nice! What are your projects?
I fix all the tech at work because our IT department is dog trash and not fixing something when I know how feels like bees in my brain. Does that count as a hobby? :/
I also sometimes cook food in a more elaborate way than necessary which I’ve heard some people get paid for
I considered this until I learned how much more IT is paid than me, without needing the education and certifications that I need.
Funny, I can’t seem to remember which port my mouse plugs into on my work computer now.
this is a good point
but also. bees in my brain
hmmmmm
I make pretty good beer and pretty shit furniture.
Doing stuff with CSS
That is so cool. I suck at CSS.
Me too
wrenching on my subaru :p during covid i pulled the engine. it was my first time ever pulling an engine out of a passenger car. i also pulled subframes and completely redid the suspension.
it keeps breaking, i keep fixing. symbiosis 🤝
A professional is someone who fell into the trap of turning their hobby into a source of income
Apparently I study timekeeping so much that I can program a clock on a graphing calculator without using any timer function.
It takes a fixed amount of time to alter a pixel on the screen, and when carefully crafted, the pixel clock itself serves as a timer.
I’m actually currently testing such a clock demo on my Casio right now.
are there significant differences in pixel response as battery voltage goes down?
Very good question!
At this moment I don’t know for sure.
I’ve only been running it on consistent 5V USB power until yesterday.
I am keeping the voltage level question in mind though…
Update: To answer your question, yes apparently the calculator is indeed sensitive to variables such as battery voltage and even possibly/likely the temperature.
I made a couple tweaks to the display layout, but left the core minute pixel timer algorithm alone. Tonight’s test shows it’s already off by a minute after only 25 minutes of running.
Oh well, it’s still a fun experiment, even though I was already aware I might be playing with digital fire with this silly project. 🤷♂️
Welp, one of my 4 batteries died today (no worries on the memory on this model). I found a spare battery, but between that and switching back and forth to USB power, it does seem the calculator’s speed might be lightly affected by voltage levels and even possibly by temperature.
Hey, ain’t nothing perfect…
I guess it doesn’t matter since you can’t look at it with a dead battery anyway.
It doesn’t even need batteries, it can run directly from USB power with no batteries, but that doesn’t answer any questions of how or if voltage levels affect instruction or pixel timing.
Timekeeping?
Yes, as in the studies of everything between keeping up with time zone rules, knowing when the next lunar eclipse is (in the USA that’s coming up shortly early morning March 14), and even learning and understanding how long different CPU instructions take.
