• Sabata11792
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    1323 months ago

    You suck all the dopamine out of something and move on leaving the drained husk of your former hobby behind. Hopefully the dopamine runs out before you put money into it.

    I swear as soon as I put money into a hobby, I lose interest. I got a guitar I can’t play, a hackRF I can’t be bothered to relearn, a box of half built eletronics, an unknown amount of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos with no purpose…

    • @[email protected]
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      423 months ago

      Yeah I got into lockpicking a few years ago, figured out how to pick all the random master locks i had lying around the house, and immediately after spending like 250 dollars on some specialty, hard-to-pick locks, I lost interest. Still keep my lockpicking set in my car in case anyone locks themselves out of the house or something, but the dopamine i got from picking those first few locks is gone. On to the next thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

        This is something that has always interested me but I’ve never tried. Any recommendations on a set of picks to start with?

        • @[email protected]
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          53 months ago

          I got a cheap set off of amazon at the time, which worked fine, and it looks like someone has already provided a link to a more reputable business. Most sets will have the same core of tools in them, which will be the most useful, plus maybe some obscure shapes in there that serve a niche purpose.

          If you’re interested in getting into the hobby, there’s a discord server called Lock Pickers United that ranks basically every lock in existence on difficulty, and will hand out “belts” a la martial arts, when you can show proof that you’ve picked a lock from different tiers. I never got very far but it seemed fun.

        • @gravitas_deficiency
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          43 months ago

          Congratulations on your new hobby that will be abandoned in a few months!

      • Sabata11792
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        73 months ago

        Same, I have a few locks I don’t have the keys for and even broke into my friends car for them once.

        Im not good at it but I can atleast pop open cheap locks no problem.

    • @Mouselemming
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      83 months ago

      No wonder I have a ton of cleaning supplies and a dirty home.

    • Mister Neon
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      33 months ago

      But I got so much Warhammer that needs painting! I have to like it or Shame Mountain won’t erode.

    • Որբունի
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      13 months ago

      yunohost is good at being set and forget for RPis that sit unused. I still haven’t got around to setting up paperless-ngx but I’ve done the rest and it is useful…

      Now don’t ask me how long it’s been since I said I’d set up a NAS

      • KillingTimeItself
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        33 months ago

        as a linux enthusiast and server hosting nerd myself. I bought like 400 dollars of hardware, installed fedora on it, immediately proceeded to not like fedora very much. And then it sat for about six months. On a whim i heard about debian 12 releasing, which had a new enough kernel for proper QSV support on modern intel and i immediately set it up in about a week or two, now using containers and relatively well organized file structures.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          This is why I setup proxmox, makes messing with different distros very easy when they’re VMs

          • KillingTimeItself
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            13 months ago

            proxmox seems cool, i’m more of a primitive guy myself though. Putting as little between me and my software running makes shit like the ESXI or EXSI whatever the fuck that stupid software is called a none problem.

            It’s less of a problem with open source stuff, but it can still go dead, and have weird feature changes, so meh.