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
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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.
Sex
Maintaining and modifying cars and motorcycles.
I do nature photography
I write screenplays for fun.
I've written a bunch of short films and one day maybe one will get produced.
I'm also kind working on a historical drama feature film.
I really enjoy the creative process and don't truly care if I ever sell one it get one produced.
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 π€
So many
Homelab
Buy broken electronics, repair, resell (so like microsoldering, diagnosing, etc)
Woodworking but Iβm bad at it
Cooking
Music but Iβm bad at it
3d printing/cad but Iβm bad at cad
Language study ζ₯ζ¬θͺ
Pcb design and some coding related to this but Iβm bad at it
Itβs 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, itβs 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. π€
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 :)
Gardening or more specifically raising fruit trees. Right now I got about 50 citrus trees growing from trifoliate orange seeds. Once they're ready I am going to graft lemons and satsumas onto them. I'm not planning to sell the trees, rather I'll gift them to friends and family.
I also propagate houseplants and gift them to friends, family and colleagues. Since they're so easy to propagate it's almost no effort.
I also propagate houseplants and gift them to friends, family and colleagues. Since theyβre so easy to propagate itβs almost no effort.
Neat gift idea! I do have this hardy as fuck spiderplant that keeps multiplying instead of dying like most of my other plants ...
This is so wholesome, planting seeds figuratively and literally. Cheers!
I write software for fun and give it away. I also write software for money and don't give it away.
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I brew alcohol and grow mushrooms(gourmet and non-gourmet)
Man I wish home distilling wasn't illegal as fuck where I live ...
You can't even brew beer? No distillation needed there
I don't do great with beer or wine, increases my digestive issues. Otherwise I'd totally try my hand at an English bitter or something like that, British beers are nearly impossible to get here (at best pale ales or IPAs, which I hate) and I don't like the local styles.
I enjoy learning vfx through houdini, id be doing it still if it wasnt so annoying to get on linux (im not paying for it, that 260$ a year cost is for me ppl making money and id do it if I was)
Blender is hella fun, like the ultimate sandbox game, cities skylines with no constraints (except much harder) I think with more and more addons it'll be the perfect sandbox creative city builder. Like procedural roads, cities, procedural terrain, buildings, etc. When the laxk of freedom in those games dissapoint you just make animations, the end goal in some of these games like planet coaster is to have something cool to look at and modify freely, the economy means nothing, might as well make it in blender.
- Car audio
- Auto repair
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.
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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).
I have a bunch of hobbies but the two that I'm currently concentrating on are building guitars and working on motorcycles.
There are plenty of people who build or customize guitars for a living. I have sold exactly one that I built from scratch and that was probably 15 years ago.
I'm resurrecting a barn find motorcycle that I'll sell (or I'll sell one of mine to keep this, I haven't decided), but I'm not going to make any money on it because it's not sought after. I'm doing it for love. I'll break even.
Oh man I would definitely watch a tv series on custom built motorcycles and guitars. I can already feel my moustache growing. Jokes aside, I love this kind of thing, have a garage full of creations, the grown man's playground.
Gaming.
Not exactly the same but Truck driving Simulation on PC.
According to my ex, I'm pretty good at defending the horrible actions of others in a conversation
You have a future in politics!
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?
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.
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...
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I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).
I play golf, some days I wouldn't even call it a hobby more like penance and a walk in the trees and sticks
I bake fancy sourdough, grow vegetables, do landscaping (but not mowing) make great cocktails for people, ferment foods and drinks. Occasionally draw things for decorations.
On the other hand, we pay someone to mow, and also to clean the house every other week.
I tried my hand at sourdough breads, but failed miserably. How long did it take you to become decent at it?
The second time I made a starter it "took". Just regular unbleached all purpose flour and water. From there it was smooth sailing, it's a lot easier than yeasted bread for me. Main things that help:
Always refresh the starter at least twice before making bread with it (so if you want to bake Saturday, refresh Friday morning then make the big starter on Friday night with some of that refreshed starter.)
Refrigerate the dough after it's shaped. Untill it's cold or even overnight. This does two things. Makes it possible to do the scoring, and cold dough into a hot closed cast iron pot will create steam that helps it rise.
Which leads to - bake it in a closed hot heavy pot. Commercial ovens can do things home ovens can't. I do all sorts of baking with the starter but for "the sourdough" as the kids call it, the one that comes out like a $12 Artisan Loaf, baking it enclosed by the hot pan is the trick. I tip the cold dough out onto parchment, score it then use the parchment to carefully move it into the hot pot.
There is a sourdough community on Lemmy, they are a nice group and I'm sure would have more tips but those are mine.
Apparently there are people who receive monetary compensation for drawing comics. Some apparently can even do that as their main job. That's what I heard at least, they seem to be rare.
I got really into cocktails a few years ago (or "mixed drinks", if you want to be more technically correct). No way I'd be able to keep up at a real bar, even if I probably know more cocktails than many of the bartenders I've personally interacted with (TBF I haven't been to a bar since I really got into cocktails, and before I got into it I just went wherever it was cheap). Fixing drinks is at best half of the job anyway, and I'm rubbish at the people stuff.
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Photography. I got back into it last year and have really enjoyed the process. Iβve learned a lot in a really short time.
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