I’m reading about hazing
Rc cars! Wroom wroom! Found my ancient rc car I had as a child and have started taking it apart and assembling it again, while slowly getting into the hobby again.
Whilst not “Nerdy”, I had to make a spreadsheet of my DVD collection as I have too many to remember 🤣 I’m just shy of 400, possibly closer as some are boxsets.
I’ve purchased a few doubles before I made it.
Is there such a thing as ‘finishing’ the dvd collection I wonder? How many were released? What constitutes a release? When was the last one released? When was the first?
Space constraints will “finish” my collection unless I purchase a big DVD wallet to compress the collection 🥲. I class releases as different regions, if they’re director cuts and sometimes if the old first releases of that movie have scenes still in them.
Home Alone 2 is one I think of instantly, They used trump tower for the hotel lobby and he just had to be in the movie for them to be allowed to film there. It’s been cut out in later releases, sometimes it’s added as an extra.
Linux and Beatmaking. Finally just me and my PC again! Love it!
Oh damn that’s awesome. Which DAW do you use?
LMMS of course :))
Right now it’s knitting and electronics - working on a deep blue shawl with sparkling beads in the pattern of a star chart, and wiring and coding up a pair of motion-reactive light-up pole dancing heels for my wife, fun stuff ❤️
I would love to see both of those projects when they’re finished, both sound so awesome!
Gaming. Went back and 100%ed a few games like Neon White, Exit 8, Omori, and Space Marine and my god did it feel good. I think this is what got me out of my depressive episode/alcoholism. Hopefully this time I won’t relapse.
Omori curing depression? Damn, way to fight fire with fire
I’m playing around with some lidar data obtained from shuttle missions. The visualisations of landscapes are dope.
Qgis has a great plugin for turning DEMs into 3d printable STL objects! If you play around with the vertical exaggeration, depending on how much elevation change the terrain has, you can print some AMAZING things!
If you can get yourself a cheap 3d printer this is an excellent add-on to your hobby :)
Emulation. I set up ShadPS4 on my Linux machine and i’ve been playing around with that. I’ve also been playing with RPCS3. Also fuck AI, but it’s cool finally being able to play P.T. on my PC. I don’t like vibe coding but there’s something poetic about folks using AI tools from a billion dollar company to decompile and port games made by another billion dollar company.
Audio fx envelopes (not the sustain/decay kinds or whatever)
What if you could aurally watch something change from one thing to the parametric opposite over time?
Keyframes are insane
Computers! After ~15 years as a professional software developer, I have gotten so burnt out, but this week I had so much fun coding for myself. I made a website: sloptrough.art, its not much but it’s very gratifying to have hosted it on my own hardware with raw html & JavaScript. I’m using proxmox, a hypervisor, to run OpenBSD which is running apache server. As OSs go, OpenBSD is paradoxically complex and unintuitive (command-line first, by enthusiasts for enthusiasts) yet also user-friendly and approachable (there are breadcrumbs down a path of well-written manual pages; I haven’t had to google at all).
Also, woodworking: i turned a pallet into garden storage to help clean up the patio
Yeah, I describe OpenBSD as very easy… for those already who are already quite familiar with Unix.
Very nice for setting up quick servers.
I did a rewrite of my personal website either earlier this year or last year, and it was so addicting! I couldn’t stop working on it.
I daily drove OpenBSD for a bit and it was amazing :3 Am on Gentoo now tho :3
Reticulum/Nomad net.
Reticulum is a network that can run over regular internet, bare WiFi, long range radio, even a serial cable. No central server, secure by default, works on slow/unreliable lines.
NomadNet is an app that runs on it that is reminiscent of the pre-netscape internet days. Text sites, no javascript. If you dig in deep enough, you can make your own games/chat bots/host offline Wikipedia and display images using ascii style art or even half tone text blocks.
I’ve gotten really into MeshCore with my local mesh and radio nerds. We have a network that is able to send messages over 300 miles away.
yeah, i live in a hole with no one owning anything higher than our houses. Neighbors have no interest. I have no LOS to anything but them.
Really want to get to the kids school which is less than a mile, but RLOS is a no-go. two people own high ground in the middle.
No water towers, just power company and cell phone and those are two placed i don’t wish to fuck with.
I’ve gotten back into the original nerdy interest: reading! Right now, I’m reading The Three Musketeers, and it is so much more entertaining than sitting around and scrolling.
Not answering the question but I feel its more about simple things than nerdy things. Things that do not have large cost or to hard to get. The exception being when the chase is what gives the enjoyment like collecting.
37 Atmospheres.
Mycology, shibari rope, and music theory
ADHD won’t let me 😭
