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I’m happy to report that I actually completed a hobby recently! Bought a Wyze Robot Vacuum to root and install Valetudo, but it was being a pain in the ass and not even trying to start ADB no matter how many button combinations I tried, so I ordered a motherboard for a ‘Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum Mop P’ (same base robot) and rooted that. Installed Valetudo, replaced the very dead batteries, and set it free. It’s now taken the place of my Eufy Robovac 25C, which will be cleaned and gifted to my elderly inlaws.
- Wyze WVCR200S w/bad battery (eBay): $20
- Motherboard w/pre-patch firmware (Aliexpress): $16
- 4x Molicel P30B 18650 batteries: $25
Not bad for a $200 vacuum that’s now completely cloud-free. Worth it. It does a hell of a better job than the Eufy did, as well.
I’m trying, honest!
I just get paralyzed right as I try to start!
It fucking hurts when I finish a day, can’t muster the energy to start on one of my projects, then just sit there hating myself while I waste another day doing shit I don’t enjoy (scrolling memes) rather than doing something I do enjoy (ANY OF MY GOD DAMNED HOBBIES!)
Tomorrow though, tomorrow I’m starting a print job for film holders for my new (to me) 4x5 camera and hell or high water putting at least one brush stroke on my Orc Marauders Battle Truck model (it’s for One Page Rules, an approachable tabletop war game)
The key is to not do hobbies alone.
NGL it really is
Plus you get the perks of doing them with other people, which is hella nice
I bought a bike frame in 2015 and collected the parts to build it up. Started again recently except now I’m second guessing the shifters, and what if I went for a different gear range, and is this headlight mounting bracket really the best option for the dynamo headlight, and…
Yeah, it’s not leaving the garage any time soon.
You mean actually read the books in my library? Doesn’t sound healthy!
Read the books and play the games
the games too?! Including all of the games in my DriveThruRPG library?
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I still have unopened boardgames, :(
I have opened them all, but a number of them have remained unplayed, because I keep forgetting to bring them with me to game night, or to read the manual before going to game night, and thus hiding those in the bag because I don’t know how to play them anymore.
Hoarding hobbies is a hobby.
I always compare myself to a Hobby Magpie. I’m hopping around, looking for shinies, may scream at a preteen idk 🐦
I switched jobs earlier this year and this is how I introduced myself when being asked what my hobbies were. At least I have a vast, persisting knowledge of things I will never need again, so I’m incredibly fun at parties.
hoarding is one of my hobbies, yes. don’t go in the garage unless you want to be added to the pile
protip: leave the people in your will with a map to find your treasures in the horde.
because oh holy fuck is it hard making sense of what’s in those stacks when they have to move on to other housing or die.
“Ugh, really? Do we need to rent a second dumpster to get rid of more stuff they hid somewhere else? WTF? They didn’t even leave us enough money for the first dumpster!”
- People reading your will
no doubt.
was thinking this looking at the stack of models I have unassembled.
feck
nah, we good
I guess I should start playing my games then. I have like 1800 games on Steam, only 30% were opened and around 20% have more than one hour of play time registered.
Not every game deserves more than 1 hour of your time, tho. I have some stuff that I got from bundles that just aren’t what I enjoy, plus at least 2 off the top of my head that you can experience everything it has to offer in under an hour
I’m the same. I looked through my most played games and games that i felt like I’ve played for ages are actually only have 1-2 hours playtime. I’m convinced there was a time when steam didn’t always track play time. It has to be gaslighting me surely?
HOLY MOLEY!! Look, I’m not you… But I am you in some ways. (348 games and I’ve probably only played 100 or so more than 5 hours, and the rest have less time or no time on them.) Make sure you remove your card info from Steam, so it’s one step you have to do if you were to be tempted to buy another game, to ‘collect dust.’
Stay strong.
My collecting of disc golf disc is the hobby, not playing disc golf!
So relatable
I spent the last 20 years hoarding things I could do when I retire. Am now retired so am doing them
I’m hoping I can retire peacefully and not need to work. Only 29 years to go
Keep an eagles eye on your savings and don’t let the people managing it fee you to death
It’s the govt in my case, Brazil’s retirement fund is govt owned/controlled. What tends to happen every 10 years is a “reform” that pushes forward the minimum requirements for retirement. Up to 2000 or so, men could retire at 60, nowadays it’s at 65. One of the “reforms” aroudn 2016 allowed banks to offer private retirement
But I’ve been having so much fun buying hardware for my homelab. I don’t want to actually build it and configure it, that’s too much like work.
I"m a few steps in. I have the hardware. I know what hypervisor I want to use, and I know some of the things I want it to run with plenty of fun sounding projects to get it to host things. Its nearly put together (just an extra cache disk to hook up with cables already ran for it so it’ll take 10 minutes to do). But it’s sat on my desk since March of this year. Unconfigured. Just there.
I’ve got a pile of hardware as well. 3 old sff desktops. A pile of 2.5gbe nics, ram, nvmes, and ssds to put in them. Proxmox iso on a thumb drive with Ventoy. All ready to go.
Gonna run kubernetes atop proxmox, and a bunch of stuff atop that.
Have another tower I set up for storage. I installed all the drives, and proxmox, and OMV…and just left it there.
Now I’m thinking I might put the drives in my tower, with the GPU, and giving it a small VM for OMV and a bigger VM for Moonlight. Then I can just have a nice silent NUC for my desktop. I have several of those ready to go as well.
Ive setup that proxmox cluster, down to the sff and and the 2.5gb nics. Ceph works decently at 2.5gb, but there are some foibles. Anything running sqlite will need to be on local disc instead of the ceph data store to sort out write errors. It wont be in HA by default, but you can still power it off and migrate it to the ceph store, and the move it if you need to do long term maintance.
I also have GPU passthrough setup on my jellyfin container, so that isnt in HA either. Still, worth the performance bump, even with an sff gpu.
Ooh good call on jellyfin I’ll have to keep that in mind. I hadn’t considered that jellyfin would probably want direct access to the igpu for QSV or any other re- encoding. All my nodes are specced the same, hardware wise…I wonder if I’ll be able to just pass down the igpu to the worker-node vms and have that available to all of them. I don’t need their displays, and all my SFFs have onboard serial in case I actually need to see what’s on console.
Maybe? I’m working with a hodgepodge of sffs, so each box is different. I wouldnt expect it to work with direct PCI passthrough even with your setup, but maybe at a different abstraction layer?
If you are going full hyperconverged cluster, look at implementing proxlb too for dynamic load balancing. Its my next project on the cluster.
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
So in May or June this year I had this idea about crafting myself a scabbard for a sword I use in HEMA. I bought power tools, plywood, wood glue, wood varnish, linen sheets, leather, a shit ton of leather making tools. Then it made me want to try out wood carving so I bought tools for that, as well as for wood whittling “to try my hand with smaller scale projects”.
6 months later, all I have to show for it is an unfinished knife sheath I tried to make to train myself and then lost interest in finishing
What styles do your practice in hema?
I’m trying to get myself to get back in.Edit: also I got super into Arduino for like 2 weeks. My house is covered in electronic bits that I don’t understand, and I’ll be damned if I can watch the udemy course
I mostly do messer (based on Leckuchner’s treaty), a bit of arming sword and buckler (based on the 1.33 manuscript) and recently started 19th century sabre (based on Waite’s manual). They’re all really fun but my heart goes to messer, it’s such a fun weapon to use and the period really interests me.
What’s keeping you from getting back in?
I’m just shy of 40 and haven’t been athletic in 5 years and the way I used to practice got me injured a lot. We took the “blossfechten” too seriously.
