I currently don’t have much time to put into hobbies, but I did some gardening/landscaping during a break in the rain last weekend. Felt great to get out and move around. Garden finally is put to bed for the winter (or what’s left of it).
Selfhosting via local servers is my fav thing recently. Learning Linux, file management, safe backups, how to host services privately and publically, FOSS and free alternatives to normal everyday software. The list of benefits go on
Whoever down voted you must not realize they’re on Lemmy.
I turned votes off on my instance because I find them toxic… case in point I guess.
The whole reason I’m here is because I thought Lemmy makes more sense than Reddit for someone who likes selfhosting :) isn’t that the whole point of the fediverse lol
Well, you got a bunch of upvotes and just the one down vote, so I think you’re right (only disclosing in case you were worried, won’t do it again if I see you around 😉
This is the most Lemmy answer possible lmao
True, that is why I’m here. I don’t care about the Reddit api nonsense or hate Reddit just saw a comment asking why the Donald could selfhost but not selfhosting selfhost
Reminds me of a year and a half ago when !selfhosted was the biggest/most active community (or close to it).
Nice. Yeah, I do that a bit. I’ve got some media services like plex, jellyfin and calibre. I run Caddy for reverse proxy. I’ve got immich for photos. Nextcloud for files. A couple websites.
I’ve been looking for a good FOSS budget tracker…seems like local gnuCash is still the best. Also looking to get a good system for android backups. Currently I just backup photos and files, but it would be cool to do full image backups.
Regarding the budget tracker: https://www.actualbudget.com/
Ha! I have actually come across this before (I believe it was on lemmy), but entirely forgot and never went back to checkout the demo. Thanks for the recommendation!
Just started learning how to play the ocarina today! It will take some time until I’ll be any good, but I’m hoping to have fun while learning.
Nice. I’ve got a ukulele that I’ve been learning to play off and on for several years.
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Well, those two are certainly ones to blow, alright
Fipple! Fipple, fipple, FIP-ple. That’s great. I want an ocarina now.
You can buy a good handpan on Temu for like 100$. Incredibly easy to learn and very satisfying to play!
Look for Kurd tuning and around 45cm size and avoid tongue ones (one with holes) and you’ll have a blast, especially if you have an edible or some acid.
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They’re a bit worse overall. The tongued ones are easier to manufacture and tune but somehow that also means the quality is just worse in general. It also has a bit of this metalic tone which is harder to play nicely but you can hand cover the holes to manipulate the sound as an advanced technique. Also tongued ones are better played with sticks rather than hands so the instrument just feels different overall and smacking the handpan with your hands (thus the name) is much more fun.
That being said, tongued handpands are still cool and can be very flexible though for first handpan I’d go with the traditional one.
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You’ll definitely have fun with either one!
Had to google it. Then upon seeing it, I had to youtube it. I might have to buy one for my wife
it never goes out of tune either so you can just store it somewhere and keep it for special ocassions with no hassle!
Riichi Mahjong. Got a local club that meets every wednesdays, I finished 2nd in our league standings last season.
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Well, it’s on my mind because I’m missing it lately. Haven’t had the stamina to do anything in weeks.
And, tbh, the degree to which I’m able to do it is way below what I used to, and what I wish I could.
But martial arts. I mostly miss the weapons based stuff nowadays, what with getting too old to hit the ground and get back up fast lol. But I miss that stuff too. Up until fucking covid, I had been back training as my body and that of my teacher’s allowed. Then, for while after covid, I was teaching a small group of kids. When that had to stop because of school needs (except my own kid), I switched to mostly solo stuff.
But between my body deteriorating, having extra stuff to do that’s higher priority, I just can’t do it like I want. Most weeks, if I get in a total of an hour fucking around with something, it’s a good week this last year.
Back before Christmas, I had some time where I could use my stamina for that almost exclusively, and it was fun. Just fucking around, doing knife and cane practice a few times a day, maybe twenty minutes at a go. Then I fucked my back up doing something unrelated lol. Mind you, it’s always fucked up, but I pulled a muscle on top of that.
And that’s the sucky part of passing fifty. Even ten years ago, I would be better at this point, and I was disabled then too.
Could be worse though!
It could always be worse and it’s good to remember that. I’d love to spend time exercising, but I just haven’t figured out how to make it fit/work…but that is a self-fulfilling cycle.
Mine’s a bit more than a hobby, basically a second career path at this point, but I’m a professional fire and sideshow performer. I love it.
Sounds fun! Do you ever get nervous before a performance?
I don’t see why they’d be nervous, when their performances are always lit.
Found the sidekick :^)
Depends on the gig. It’s more likely if I’m doing a large gig or a new act, but overall not really
My hobby right now is making a completely local fitness watch without any screen or distractions. Just logs heart rate, spo2, activity, and sleep using actual Bluetooth standard profiles (HRP, POP, PAMP, etc… Instead of proprietary hacked together custom profiles of most watches). No GPS either because if I want that, I will just bring my phone. Maybe an extension of my job though since I design medical device electronics for work. The only feedback is an LED and good LRA haptics (hopefully). I hope to make it compatible either with whoop replacement straps or standard watch bands.
Bit of a serial hobbyist:
- gardening
- cooking and making new recipes
- weight lifting
- running (need to get back into it)
- implementing a smart home
- growing mushrooms
- baking bread
- making cheese (stopped because Belgium has almost no non-ultrapasteurized milk anymore)
- designing flight sticks for space simulators
- running a home server
That watch sounds like an interesting project. Have you heard of the HealthyPi Move? It’s a open hardware watch with a bunch of biometrics, so maybe there’s something in the design or code you could use.
Interesting. I had no idea about this project!
Sadly they are using the Maxim sensor hub with seperate LEDs and data acquisition where i am just using an all-in-one sensor.
Who knows? I am making the development board right now so maybe I will find that using the same part will make it easier lol
Very cool project! I wonder when it is called the “pi” when there is nothing related to Pi or the raspberry/orange/banana pi ecosystem? 😂
They had other non-watch monitors first based on raspberry pi. I think they just kept the name for branding.
not all hero’s wear caps
That’s super cool!
Sewing!!
I started sewing because I couldn’t afford / have access to items that I really wanted (clothing, stuffed animals, etc.), so I started making them myself!
Now if I see a picture of a thing that doesn’t exist but is really cool & I would love to own it, I can just make it!
It can be challenging at times, but I love taking ideas from 2D to 3D. (:
Where do you get fabric? Im a basic person, and could wear the same shirt every day if I had enough of them. I was considering doing this with a basic shirt I saw on Amazon, that I liked, but it’s $30.
That sounds so nice :)
I have some friends who are good at sewing too and it is like a superpower. They can just look at something and then produce a replica - it us amazing :)
What would someone need to get started with sewing, if the focus was on making plushies?
Would this someone prefer sewing by hand or by machine?
By machine would be faster, I believe, especially when moving to bigger plushies
You know the joke, My real hobby is shopping for my newest hobby …
I picked up the guitar again after 24 years. $10 thrift store nylon string classical, set a goal to learn a full song, which is something I never did, and then I’d buy an electric which is something I wanted but never got. I went with Nirvana - About a girl, and honestly think it was a bit too easy so I’m going to bump up the difficulty to also singing at the same time, something that really stumped me all those years ago.
I also make noise art so already have a large selection of guitar pedals and amps ready to be very loud.
Guitar is my thing! I’m currently trying to build a home recording studio
Is hi-fi audio and CD collecting a fun hobby? I love it even though everyone I’ve talked to about it couldn’t care less it seems xD
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I consider myself an audiophile as well, I do have my expensive IEMs and speakers to get the best out of my lossless music
If you’re amused amd having fun, I’d say so!
I’m am artisan maple syrup maker. I build all of the machinery and make maple syrup.
Well, I can draw… (progress pictures are HERE!)
Love it! The technique is good – but can you speak to your subjects? How do you decide what to draw?
Thank you so much! I’m glad you think so! 😃
I love drawing biblically accurate angels and peculiar creatures! I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember, but I was particularly influenced to draw strange creatures after playing Pikmin, and that kinda stuck with me! Typically what I do is to just draw whatever image is in my head and I’m particularly fond of things with lots of eyes or none of them. Some ideas come from dreams wheras others arise spontaneously. Others come from simply messing around while sketching.
I use Paint Tool Sai 1 for all of my drawings. It’s an older program but it’s very lightweight and also has a really good pen stabilization and pressure system! I honestly wouldn’t trade it for anything else.
Oh neat! I’ve never played Pikmin, but they for sure have some strange creatures! My kid is a big fan of video game history, and I watched him play a MegaMan game (maybe MegaMan x?) I was really impressed by all of the creative enemy sprites and how they moved so very different from one another.
Also, funny coincidence – or not-- I recently listened to The Godfrey Audio Guide Episode 3: Cubes and Angels Which is an art history/fiction audio podcast covering both real and imagined art. In this episode, the Cubes are imagined, but the Angels refers to Max Earnst’s Fireside Angel. And I think your work has a similar feel, so I find it very interesting that your painting biblically accurate angles. Isn’t it funny how you run across these odd things, then start seeing them everywhere? Oh, I hope I don’t start seeing them IRL!
Megaman X will always be my fave, still has one of the most difficult end bosses though! I wonder if he beat the game. And I absolutely love that Fireside Angel omg!! I didn’t know about it until now but I totally get you and it really is a vibe! 😃 I’m glad you enjoy my art and thank you for showing me that picture too!
I can absolutely imagine these as Pikmin bosses that wipe half my team while I’m desperately blowing my whistle across the arena. Amazing!
Oh my gosh you have no idea how much that means to me seriously 😭 Pikmin was such a formative piece of media to me and I’m so happy you’re getting Pikmin vibes from it! Thank you so much!!
Does that mean your Wounded Angel is biblically accurate? Like the Bible describes it as a series of interlocked rings circled by eyes? If so, the old testament (I assume) is wild.
I recently took up lock picking as a hobby. It’s fairly cheap (you can get a beginner pick set from Covert Instruments for $25) and it’s fun. It helps me disconnect from screens and I slow down a bit. You can pickup a bunch of used padlocks and practice on those, or you can buy practice locks online for pretty cheap.
Yeah, I’ve gone down that rabbit hole before. It can be very, very relaxing…but also insanely frustrating when you find a lock you just can’t seem to get.
Baking bread is a little intimidating to start but not really that hard, uses cheap supplies you probably already have.
It’s also incredibly worthwhile. There’s not much that’s better than freshly baked bread.
So many people who think that they are gluten intolerant have no problem eating homemade bread. Obviously I’m not saying this for everybody, but I think more people are intolerant to the emulsifiers than the gluten.
I build Bluetooth speakers. Super simple. There are literally 3 parts, a Bluetooth amplifier board, speakers, power. That’s it. Then you can spend time just making the box. Don’t have the skills to do that? No problem, just jam it all into something else. You could put it in virtually anything else, old can of Pringles, pizza box, Muppet, you name it.
That’s cool. Care to share your favorite Bluetooth amplifier board and speakers? Can you connect to multiple speakers at a time for surround sound? Each with a different channel?
I don’t actually have a favorite one. I made an art deco speaker I liked so much, I kept it and it seemed to sound better than some of the others, but I couldn’t ever find it again. Right now there are two chips that are commonly used. The TDA7498 and TPS3116. Even though the 3116 sounds better on paper, I prefer the TDA7498 for sound quality. Other than that just look for the features you like. I have never done the surround sound thing but it is definitely possible. You can get the parts you need at as place called partsxpress.com.
