I am a tech, foss & privacy enthusiast 🥹
I feel you, dude! 🥹
Me too!
There's dozens of us!
Include IoT and maybe electrical engineering in that if you're hard-core into cheap little devices/sensors from Aliexpress/Taobao
Yes
Making my own decentralized takedown safe sharing protocol (and implementation) 🥲
Game development. I do the coding, 3D art and animation, everything. I don't know if I'll ever even finsh another project, and it's incredibly time-consuming, but I enjoy it.
Same, but honestly for me it is such a lonely existence. Even when I show off my projects to friends/family they can't understand the effort that went into it... many seem to think there's a "make racing game" button or something and I just added some textures or built a track.
I often wonder if I should pivot into wood working or something else, at least I'd have something tangible to gift or sell at the end. People just seem to appreciate things they can hold in their hands more.
So what are you working on just now?
Ol' gamedev making a no-graphics multiplayer game here :-)
Amateur radio (Ham radio)
73, my friend, there are dozens of us out there!
73 de SA5FTP. I'm the only one in my circle of friends. Could be more active on HF, mostly on the local repeater
Came here to say this, 73 from KB1OTE! Come join us at [email protected]
I was wondering if I should get into this. I'm more interested because it seems cool and I need some kind of backup means of communications in case communication is down or something
3D Printing and homelab. I run a lot of services at home on my server (things like a personal streaming service, smarthome, security camera software, and more).
This is me. I figure I do the homelab stuff so they don't have to.
Are you me?
Boardgames. Especially big, rules heavy games like Mage Knight and Twilight Imperium. I'll happily spend a day playing a boardgame and my family just don't get it at all.
My family were doing a dog sledding trip and my brother came off and hit his head. We ended up putting him on my sled, with my job being to keep him awake in case he had a concussion. So I asked him to explain the rules to Twilight Imperium to me which, luckily and unluckily, took. Hours.
I've never hated, but been glad for, a game I've never played more...
(but I'm glad that you, and my brother, and other people get so much enjoyment from them!)
I'll play Mage Knight with you. I own it. Never played it, but I own it.
Take a day to learn the rules (yes, a whole day) and play through a solo game. It’s one of the best solo games ever!
It's not a big game, but I fell in love with Nefarious (specifically a translated version) after encountering it in the wild. Fast pace, simultaneous turns, short games, simple rules, no eliminations leading to people waiting for others to finish, and at the same time has some interesting decisions leading to multiple strategies... And then you add two twists every game, changing the rules, meaning you have to adapt your strategies, keeping it fresh.
I love the World Rally Championship, but it's a pretty niche sport as it is, I doubt there are many fans in my whole town!
But to answer your question, probably wanking
Lock sport. Lock picking
It is good that you unlock your potential.
I wonder if they just tumbled into the hobby?
I bought a sparrows kit and need to get back into the hobby. I've only picked the beginner pins
LARP, and costuming/crafting for it. Amusingly, even among larpers I get a few weird looks when I explain my husband made my clothing, and I made his crossbow.
I met a woman on FB years ago. She's super effeminate, and tiny, and no one would ever guess that she forges swords in her backyard on the weekends, and I absolute love her.
am programmer
What exactly do you have against pm programming?
I’m really more into 24-hour programming, which sounds unhealthy… Uh, military programming?
Music. My parents weirdly never listened to music. When I was a kid, the most they would listen to was a Queen greatest hits album and another greatest hits from this 80s band from my country. But like, only on road trips.
I don’t know why, but ever since I was very young I loved music. One of the first birthday presents I remember choosing myself was a copy of Dookie (Green Day). I didn’t know what it was, but I loved the cover. Less than a month later we were back to the record store and I bought this brand new album by a band I had never heard before, In Rainbows by Radiohead. And that was it. I was hooked forever. Music was to become the most constant and important part of my life.
I spent years finding and listening to music. Trying to understand the history and development. Music really was my main hobby in high-school, like listening to music.
Nowadays I also play guitar and produce a bit, but I still listen to music as a hobby.
And my parents still don’t listen to music at all lmao. Even after enduring years and years of me hogging the AUX cable and forcing them to listen to everything from Wu Tang Clan to Burzum and Sufjan Stevens and Nirvana… but I love them. The most they would say is “wow this is very heavy” as I blasted black metal lol
I feel the same way. When I was a kid, my parents had a pretty small collection of tapes of religious music, and that's the only stuff they would listen to. Once I got my first internet connection around the age of 12, a whole new world opened up.
Today, I listen to music all the time, while working, while driving. It was so weird (and depressing) to go on a trip in my sister's car who doesn't listen to music.
Bonsai. I love my little trees.
I’m really curious about bonsai but it seems hard to get into! I also worry that I don’t have a good eye for aesthetics, and that might be a problem too, haha. It seems really cool though.
… also maybe this seems like a stupid concern, but sometimes I wonder if it’s cruel to the tree? I know little actual details, though… and also most people wouldn’t care about a tree’s feelings, haha.
My Nandina gives me the most joy for the least fuss.
Nice
All of them unfortunately.
It was LARPing, but then I got clever. Once my wife was pregnant, it was only a matter of time. Now my kids have grown up in the hobby, and they love it as much as their old man.
RC cars, amateur radio, sailing, 3d printing, cooking/baking, sewing, camping...probably more.
I'd say my kid has a mild interest in some of these, but probably wouldn't if I wasn't also doing it. My wife and I mostly just watch tv together.
Your wife doesn't try to get started any of those activities?
Bonsai, target shooting, motorcycling
You ever consider combining these hobbies to make yourself into a badass, modern day samurai? Consider adding poetry to the list.
Pretty much everything. The only people I can really talk to about my hobbies is a friend I talk to maybe once every two weeks. Even then, it's hard getting a word in
Rubik's cubes and puzzles like that . But that's a very niche hobby anyways . I have a collection of probably 30 or so different cubes/ puzzles.
As someone who used to be into cubing, I find it immensely amusing that it's one of the few hobbies where the Chinese off-brand is actually better than the original name brand. My main cube was a Moyu Weilong GTS2M.
Astrophotography. Hell, just photography in general.
Well don't tease us. Show us the rig!
There's a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That's absolutely it.
The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.
I play tabletop RPG games, and everybody I'm related to, parents, my brother, aunts and uncles, cousins, all think it's silly and won't ever touch a set of dice.
House/techno DJing - I've got decks and about 800 records, but very very rarely have any time to practice as it's nobody's cup of tea! Oh well :-)
Washing dishes
Cool, tell me more about this thrilling hobby of yours.
What does a washing dishes hobby entail? Do you have like a personal best or a preferred strategy?
Video games. None of my family gets it at all.
Electronics, radiantism (HAM radio operation) and programming. for the first two i'm actually the only one in my town; which is sort of heplful for electronics since people bring broken equipment to me that i either fix or scrap for parts; while it is kind of a bummer for radiantism.
I'm the only one who is into dank memes and chatting online with strangers.
My siblings are into video games... But not the same ones I am into.
My siblings love D&D; I prefer Shadowrun. (I mean. I like D&D too but not as much as Shadowrun)
My sister is taking game design classes; but has never actually programmed (even for a class yet). Meanwhile, I have a ton of mods I've made for various things up on Steam workshops and the Nexus, as well as programming a few utilities for tabletop games. Because I like it and taught myself for the fun of it.
Lifting weights, and exercise in general. My whole family enjoys cooking, though.
3D printing and miniature painting. You could say electronics as well since my dad no longer messes with that stuff.
I collect mid-2000s PDAs!
How do you collect personal displays of affection from 20 years ago?
I'm guessing photos!
That’s generally frowned on.
Oh hey! I collect somewhat vintage computing stuff as well! Mainly Thinkpads. What I found the most challenging would be finding replacement parts, especially batteries. How do you go about yours?
Batteries are easy to get thanks to Cameron Sino! They make brand new batteries for old devices from cameras to PDAs.
As for parts, depends! Some you can easily find broken/untested units for cheap to grab parts off of. Others like my daily driver, the Sony Clié PEG-UX50 (It even flips around to hide the keyboard!), is rarer since it was top of the top of the line, and therefore wicked expensive ($700! Today that's worth $1,200!) Working units can be found but command high prices, and it needs a special dingus cradle for charging. Without the cradle, you can't charge as it doesn't take USB power.
A lot of the time, untested units usually just need a new battery and they kick right back on. Every untested device I've bought was much cheaper than working, and one fresh battery later it starts right up.
I used to work at a computer store back then, there were so many (shittty) options for pda and mo3 players back then
Oh yeah, there's definitely a reason why the iPhone took off so well lol
Boardgaming, kind of sort of. I think the other family households have some boardgames in their houses, like the usual ones that most people have, but I've got a boardgame and ttrpg collection that I've sunk thousands of dollars into worth of games and shelving for. It's just on a different level.
One of us! One of us!
Photography, gaming.
3d printing , electronic , welding , gaming etc..
rpg and video games. unless you include stupid phone games. honestly anything considered nerdy/geeky from the past except for what is totally main stream. Like they use computers and have see super hero movies and animated movies. Honestly im pretty sure if work did not require it they might not use computers outside of smartphones.
I do pictures for people who have lost their furries over the rainbow bridge.
Props
I've lost... Too many this year and I cannot imagine being more immersed in that absolutely depressing industry (pet death and grieving in general). Well that and I can't draw
Important work though, I'm sure it helps people immensely
Basically anything I enjoy except cooking. They're not the biggest tech/photography/software/3d printing/... enthusiasts.
translating garfield comics
(Western concert) flute. Playing, maintenance/repair, collecting, different mechanics and other deviations from the norm, history.
Tea. All teas camellia sinensis/taliensis, and different cultural habits around it. Teapot
collectingaddiction.3D modeling and printing.
All of them.
Accountability.
Everything. My family just sits on their ass watching tv all day.
all of them except my brother also plays video games? do you and your family all have the same interests
Atheism lol
