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[โ€“] DrQuint@lemm.ee 74 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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[โ€“] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly, hope more people start fixing their own stuff

[โ€“] boopeditandnow@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has inspired me. My Instant Pot has been throwing a lot of errors lately, I bet I can rig something up...

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[โ€“] johsny@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] u202307011927@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

Most unexpected yet reasonable answer in this thread, seriously

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[โ€“] MarigoldPuppyFlavors@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of my hobbies are geared toward getting away from people so not sure how to answer this one.

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[โ€“] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] gsb@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe this isn't a hobby but just hanging out. Video games, movies, road trips, or any type of activity without it being a big deal. No agenda or expectations. Just being social. I miss that from my younger years. Now everyone is busy, tired, and getting together takes a lot of prep.

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[โ€“] flameguy21@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I sadly don't have any programming friends

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[โ€“] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reading math books, Linux, Lemmy, and Extreme metal. I have nothing to talk about with people IRL other than the fucking weather (that I actually want to talk about).

[โ€“] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The overlap between math and death metal fans is larger than im comfortable with.

[โ€“] techt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That's why we have Mathcore. Also if this is you, please check out this programming themed prog album.

[โ€“] toiletwhole@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Death, Black, Grindcore, Slam, blackened deathmetal, shoegaze, Deathgazeโ€ฆhit me up :D

[โ€“] GurrenCentauri@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RPGs that arenโ€™t dnd

[โ€“] TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's like the blues brothers bit "we've got both kinds of music here. Country and western".

I think pf2e is better in many ways but it also has a lot of the same stuff.

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[โ€“] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wish there were more normal people who play magic. Going to any shop to play is always a gamble, half the time the people you end up playing with smell bad or are socially inept, sometimes both. Itโ€™s a fun game if you have actual good people to play with.

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[โ€“] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conlangs, we could reform the language world.

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[โ€“] Mistermillennia@ttrpg.network 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Honestly I can't narrow it down to less than 2:

  • Australian Stingless Bee "farming": as the hobby is niche, even in Australia, there isn't much publicly available advancement in hive designs, propogation methods and care techniques for native bees. This makes the barrier for entry high, and the chances of losing a hive when inexperienced is moderately high too. More people in the hobby would hopefully bring in more discussion and experimentation, and make the hobby more accessible to others by hopefully bringing the price of hives down.

  • TTRPGs/Wargaming outside of the big 2 games: if its not 40k or D&D, you are unlikely to find anyone that knows of alternate systems, let alone wants to play them. Makes it a lot harder to find a group outside of a game over discord or similar

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[โ€“] 31415926535@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Juggling. Friend decades ago taught me how to group juggle with other people. Lots of fun. But I've learned never to admit I'm into juggling, cuz apparently it's serial killer weird

I can juggle 3 balls but no more, its quite intuitive once you try! I know 3 is basically nothing, I just learnt it when I was like 10 and never took it up.

But that is a great hobby man, join a circus or smth idk.

Working from home.

[โ€“] cartufer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Guess i'm the first to say it, sewing. Not necessarily making things from scratch but just fixing what you got and adding features. Fairly affordable hobby, easy to get into and plenty of tutorials.

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Radio control airplanes. It's being regulated to death since the advent of quadcopters/drones.

[โ€“] MJBrune@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to seem odd because a lot of people are surface level into it but if you actually get into it you'll see it's very difficult and most people will tell you that you're wrong. This hobby is game design. It's incredibly hard but everyone thinks they are a master at it. The moment you start building something you see that all of your designs are very basic.

[โ€“] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooh that reminds me of the fantasy heart breaker phenomenon. It's where like someone who has only ever played DND (and probably just one edition of it) sets out to make their own RPG. They're full of passion and energy!

And the game turns out like shit because all they knew was DND. Like if someone who had only ever watched the Lord of the rings movies went to make their own film, and it has horses no matter the genre because don't films always have horses?

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[โ€“] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] hackris@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago
  • Privacy

    Protects one of your fundamental rights, or nearly all of them if you think about it, as well.

  • ham radio

    Getting certified is super easy in many places and there are many hobbies within, such as electronics, building antennas, etc.

  • poetry

    This hobby has to be the cheapest of all. Go to the park with a pen and paper, bonus points if you leave your phone at home, and let your mind wander :)

[โ€“] v81@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ham Radio

Some aren't even aware the hobby still exists.

Easy to get licenced in most places, ham radios are cool pieces of clever tech. So many sub hobbies within. Digital modes, long distance, electronics, antenna design and building.

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[โ€“] rei@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Everything I do is pretty nerdy, I just wish there were more women, gaming, chess, progamming, etc.

[โ€“] Monster96@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Unity development. I'd love to work with someone that knows Unity but no one I know knows what C# is.

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[โ€“] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Learning languages. It'd be nice if I could meet people irl who are interested in learning different languages and it'd probably keep my motivation up as I've been slacking.

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[โ€“] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Chess. Specifically I wish I knew more people irl like my friends.

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[โ€“] Granixo@feddit.cl 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gaming, particularly games from 2013 and before. ๐ŸŽฎ

[โ€“] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely that's not uncommon, is it? The more obscure games I suppose but people play stuff like pokemon and mario kart etc all the time.

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[โ€“] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Karaoke. After losing my old friends circle, I no longer have anyone to go karaoke with. :(

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[โ€“] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being poor and feeling sorry for myself

[โ€“] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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