Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people’s way of earning, for example fishing.
I am developing software as a hobby that is fairly specialized in nature. That is only because I could not get a job doing the same thing. Fuck corporate monopolies.
I do nature photography
Self hosting, I guess it makes me an IT person as a hobby?
Self-hosting*
Selfhosting*
Hosting of the self*
I fix my own cars and do my own house maintenance.
According to my ex, I’m pretty good at defending the horrible actions of others in a conversation
You have a future in politics!
I play golf, some days I wouldn’t even call it a hobby more like penance and a walk in the trees and sticks
Sex
I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).
I have a bunch of hobbies but the two that I’m currently concentrating on are building guitars and working on motorcycles.
There are plenty of people who build or customize guitars for a living. I have sold exactly one that I built from scratch and that was probably 15 years ago.
I’m resurrecting a barn find motorcycle that I’ll sell (or I’ll sell one of mine to keep this, I haven’t decided), but I’m not going to make any money on it because it’s not sought after. I’m doing it for love. I’ll break even.
Oh man I would definitely watch a tv series on custom built motorcycles and guitars. I can already feel my moustache growing. Jokes aside, I love this kind of thing, have a garage full of creations, the grown man’s playground.
Influencer (I shitpost non-stop)
I try playing the guitar and taking photos.
I bake fancy sourdough, grow vegetables, do landscaping (but not mowing) make great cocktails for people, ferment foods and drinks. Occasionally draw things for decorations.
On the other hand, we pay someone to mow, and also to clean the house every other week.
I tried my hand at sourdough breads, but failed miserably. How long did it take you to become decent at it?
The second time I made a starter it “took”. Just regular unbleached all purpose flour and water. From there it was smooth sailing, it’s a lot easier than yeasted bread for me. Main things that help:
Always refresh the starter at least twice before making bread with it (so if you want to bake Saturday, refresh Friday morning then make the big starter on Friday night with some of that refreshed starter.)
Refrigerate the dough after it’s shaped. Untill it’s cold or even overnight. This does two things. Makes it possible to do the scoring, and cold dough into a hot closed cast iron pot will create steam that helps it rise.
Which leads to - bake it in a closed hot heavy pot. Commercial ovens can do things home ovens can’t. I do all sorts of baking with the starter but for “the sourdough” as the kids call it, the one that comes out like a $12 Artisan Loaf, baking it enclosed by the hot pan is the trick. I tip the cold dough out onto parchment, score it then use the parchment to carefully move it into the hot pot.
There is a sourdough community on Lemmy, they are a nice group and I’m sure would have more tips but those are mine.
Gaming.
Linux Sysadmin here.
I have a couple open source apps/scripts that have tens of stars and ones of forks. I’m also getting into micro soldering to fix electronics. Mostly for myself but I’ll hardmod or fix friends equipment for cost of parts. I’ve been known to buy a broken console, fix it, mod it, then sell it for some extra cash to buy more soldering equipment.
Nice! What are your projects?
That reminds me of the box of half-broken Game Boys from back when I got really into chiptune … I kinda get backpain from soldering, though, any tips on that? Other than “go see a doctor”, of course.
cycling and drumming (in a band), not easy to find the time with all the other stuff (chores etc.) that has to be done
