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Do you all have any tips on activities to do yourself, instead of consuming content all the time? (feddit.nl)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by mononomi@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm pretty sick of my content addiction, like watching youtube or netflix all the time. I would rather be spending my time otherwise so figured fun things are the best to start. Do you have tips for fun things to do? Or how I could search for them?

Some I came up with myself:

Learning some magic tricks
Learning some origami
Thrift shopping

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[–] Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I started just with a 2 bay nas that I had a few VMs on... then it spiraled. Back with PIs were cheap it was fun to spin up new stuff all the time. Now an N100 mini-pc is way more cost effective long term, plus you get to start dipping into VMs, LXC, docker, etc.

Not to mention Home Assistant is an entire hobby in itself. 4 more aqara devices just came for me today.

I do feel like I should second the comment that it isn't cheap, but you can do things in bits and pieces that don't make it feel like you're spending your life savings.