What hobbies do you practice that is other people's professions?
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
Car audio
Auto repair -
So many
Homelab
Buy broken electronics, repair, resell (so like microsoldering, diagnosing, etc)
Woodworking but I’m bad at it
Cooking
Music but I’m bad at it
3d printing/cad but I’m bad at cad
Language study 日本語
Pcb design and some coding related to this but I’m bad at it
It’s 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, it’s cool to know about a lot of things
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
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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.
This is so wholesome, planting seeds figuratively and literally. Cheers!
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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.
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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.
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
wrenching on my subaru
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
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
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.
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
Maintaining and modifying cars and motorcycles.
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So many
Homelab
Buy broken electronics, repair, resell (so like microsoldering, diagnosing, etc)
Woodworking but I’m bad at it
Cooking
Music but I’m bad at it
3d printing/cad but I’m bad at cad
Language study 日本語
Pcb design and some coding related to this but I’m bad at it
It’s 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, it’s cool to know about a lot of things
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So many
Homelab
Buy broken electronics, repair, resell (so like microsoldering, diagnosing, etc)
Woodworking but I’m bad at it
Cooking
Music but I’m bad at it
3d printing/cad but I’m bad at cad
Language study 日本語
Pcb design and some coding related to this but I’m bad at it
It’s 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, it’s cool to know about a lot of things
You can also be a jack of all trades, master of some. Or a lot. Or most.
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"Cocktail" is more specific. Originally, it was identical with what's now called an Old Fashioned, i.e. spirit, sugar, bitters and water/ice. Later the term started including other alcoholic drinks like sours, martini etc.; I've seen people claim in discussions that's it's down to the amount of ingredients (e.g. a Rum & Coke is not a cocktail, but rum, cola and lime (Cuba Libre) might be) or a specific care exercized in preparation, but I think it's ultimately arbitrary.
Anyway, one of my favourite drinks is the Twice Up (whisky and water mixed 1:1, works great with many other spirits). Hard to call this a cocktail, considering adding water to whisky is just a completely normal way of drinking whisky in Scotland. The Scots just pour the water freehand instead of measuring an exact amount.
I'm Scottish and used to drink single malt straight from the bottle lol.
There's nothing quite like drinking an entire bottle of glenmorangie and waking up the next day still drunk
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
I do nature photography
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
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 dealing 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.
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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.
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I'm Scottish and used to drink single malt straight from the bottle lol.
There's nothing quite like drinking an entire bottle of glenmorangie and waking up the next day still drunk
Oh yeah, Scotland did (does?) have high numbers of drug deaths ... does Glasgow really suck that much?
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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, but that doesn't answer any questions of how or if voltage levels affect instruction or pixel timing.
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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 they’re so easy to propagate it’s 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 ...
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I brew alcohol and grow mushrooms(gourmet or otherwise)
Man I wish home distilling wasn't illegal as fuck where I live ...
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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 ...
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
Doing stuff with CSS
