What does 1000€ buy you in your favourite hobby?
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Signed 1st edition hardback of New Hampshire by Robert Frost.
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You guys have hobbies?
Idk, a mid tier graphics card?
3 months of food?
2 months of marina?
A nice short trip/vacation (a couple of days, maybe a week)?
Rear tires coz I like them fast?
A lot of planters and automatic watering systems?
A notable addition to my home lab?I should get a life.
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I could get a copy of the original "White Box" Dungeons & Dragons set, although not an actual first print run copy, because those go for $20k. But I'd probably buy the last few Planescape products I'm missing, which are also unreasonably expensive for rpg books but not in the same league as the original dnd sets, and much more enjoyable to read.
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My two main hobbies are amassing wealth and being bad at finance so it probably gets me about 500€.
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A new hobby doer, computer.
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I get 1 nice drone or 2 small ones.
Lost a 500€ infrared drone 2 days ago in a sugar beet field because "I don’t need the GPS when flying near the street" and then I was too high to make out if it was a deer or a rabbit and the powerline in between disrupted the radio signal, so the drone went into failsave and stopped all movement, getting carried by the wind into the field and it fell in a way that the battery disconnected… thank you for reading.. I’m sad now…
Damn that’s a shame. What resolution was the IR camera?
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Two and a half hard drives.
Yeah, about 72TB if I find a sale
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I could get loads of cool liquors I've been eyeing for experimentation! Or like... one reeeeeally nice scotch.
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About one-fourth of a top-tier professional video card, or a whole -almost top-tier- consumer card. Or a relatively decent factory-made classical guitar. That being said I'd probably go for a extrawide capo to fit my ten-string instead. And then buy coke with the remaining 950$. Regular, not diet
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43 kilos of leather offcuts
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A nice OLED TV. I love watching movies.
Edit: Holy cow OLED is still very expensive. I've changed my mind: projector.
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Two chicks at the same time.
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A lot of yarn. A few motorcycle jackets and pants. ALL of the video games. A lot of yoga accessories that I've ogled but never bought.
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Depends on the hobby because I have too many...
Photography - not much unless I buy used, which is what I usually do. So some funky old lenses and adapters to get on the body, which usually nets some fun results.
Data hoarding - a couple of hard drives. Which I should really do, I'm coming close to 5% free (which sounds like less than it is when you've got about 115tb, which is why I'm not rushing out).
Computer Vision / AI - more processing power! But I make work buy me that stuff so its fine.
General compute - about 5 more tiny/mini/micros at the usual price (plus the usual upgrades) to either ads to the cluster or make a new one! Or one or two of the newer little beasts that I will probably be waiting another year or two to pick up.
Bicycling - a good bike for getting around! My bike is about 15 years old now, it was new old stock because no one liked the color apparently - which made it about 1/2 the price of what it should have been. I've been replacing gear on it over the years, but I'm tempted to buy something new, honestly less for going fast and maybe more upright, like a hybrid. Which I can get an OK model at that price.
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A nice OLED TV. I love watching movies.
Edit: Holy cow OLED is still very expensive. I've changed my mind: projector.
I'm on the last generation of plasma still, waiting for OLED or micro-LED to become affordable. I love watching movies at night in a dark room with proper blacks on the screen. I don't understand why people would want lights behind their telly.
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I'm on the last generation of plasma still, waiting for OLED or micro-LED to become affordable. I love watching movies at night in a dark room with proper blacks on the screen. I don't understand why people would want lights behind their telly.
We got given one of those led strips that stick to the edges all the way around the back of the TV. We have it on red and it's a great mood light in an otherwise pitch black room. I wasn't convinced I would like it but everyone in the house does.
If you're referring to the backlight on an LED TV, the one we got has "zones" so the bleed isn't too bad at all.
This post caused me to look for the first time in ages and the QLED ones look interesting.
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Depends on the hobby because I have too many...
Photography - not much unless I buy used, which is what I usually do. So some funky old lenses and adapters to get on the body, which usually nets some fun results.
Data hoarding - a couple of hard drives. Which I should really do, I'm coming close to 5% free (which sounds like less than it is when you've got about 115tb, which is why I'm not rushing out).
Computer Vision / AI - more processing power! But I make work buy me that stuff so its fine.
General compute - about 5 more tiny/mini/micros at the usual price (plus the usual upgrades) to either ads to the cluster or make a new one! Or one or two of the newer little beasts that I will probably be waiting another year or two to pick up.
Bicycling - a good bike for getting around! My bike is about 15 years old now, it was new old stock because no one liked the color apparently - which made it about 1/2 the price of what it should have been. I've been replacing gear on it over the years, but I'm tempted to buy something new, honestly less for going fast and maybe more upright, like a hybrid. Which I can get an OK model at that price.
No matter how many drives I add to my NAS, there is always another "you" out there showing me it could be worse.
Cheers!
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With tabletop role-playing games (I don't play D&D), a thousand bucks and you're pretty much set up for life. You can get a huge range of beautiful dice in all sizes, a nice deck of cards, a variety of tokens and you can skip miniatures to invest in bits that are more flexible. Speaking of flexibility, a big ebook reader allows you to enjoy tons of published games and only get physical box sets or books if you really desire them as artifacts. Another big advantage is that you can spend your money slowly and just enjoy what you have first.
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Composer here, I could grab quite a lot! There are multiple shops in a 2.5 hour drive-radius from me that sell used instruments and audio equipment for dirt cheap. I bagged a $700 audio interface for $100 - just a single hunge! I could probably start an Elephant 6-grade recording setup with a thousand.
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Homebrewing. Either everything you need to get started and going for like €100. Spend the rest on tools and equipment and ingredients as you go and learn what you need and why you need it.
Or, as it seems to me is the middle aged man thing to do¹, buy everything for a complete microbrewery and insist it is absolutely necessary with the best of laboratory grade equipment for your first batch of IPA that will taste like anybody else's first batch of IPA and the only solution is to keep spending another €1000 when you got it on better equipment and gadgets and dodads and quirkmaflixers in magical materials and still nobody will be impressed but that's just because you didn't have the correct temperature to the third decimal and dear we absolutely need to take a small loan on the house no listen this is an investment when I get this going hey baby wait listen...
¹ I'm a middle aged man so I'm allowed to use these words.
