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Disassembling stuff. Usually electronics but also items with cool mechanisms like a clock
I like buying cheap stuff at a yard sale that doesn't quite work and then taking it apart to see if I can make it function again.
My greatest success was an old school oscillating fan that I've used for years since I got it for 50 cents.
Do you like to see how things work? I took my laptop apart once to replace the screen and it gave me so much anxiety, I was scared I wouldn't be able to put it back together again, but I did! It wasn't that hard.
I love learning how things work. Disassembling laptops is extremely stressful the first time (especially if it's your only pc) but it becomes fun when your realize that they're (usually) meant to be opened; it becomes stressful when you open items that aren't supposed to be, like anything that uses glue as a build material. It also helps seeing things less like a magic box and more like a logic interaction between things, meaning i learn how to use them the right way. And congratulations for fixing your laptop, it always seems harder that it actually is