I enjoy disc golf. Many courses are in public parks and discs are cheap.

Do you want to do your hobby on a laptop? Learn Blender, it’s free. You can also pirate other software such as zbrush and go nuts have fun with that.

Do you want to have your hobby at home but not on a laptop? Well, gardening, sketching, learn to play an instrument, cooking.

Do you want your hobby to get you out of the house? I recommend tabletop gaming. Birdwatching. Photography

Fuck it. Battletech.

Mobile app development

There are many things not requiring the use of any laptop, powerful or not.

• Read books. There are billions of books out there waiting to be read. New ones, old ones, fictions, essays, in whatever ‘genre’ you may fancy. You can even read them for free, by borrowing them from your local public library.
• As suggested: a #2 pencil (HB, for the non-US world, but I would suggest 2B myself: a slightly fatter/darker type of lead), a few sheets of paper or a sketchbook (for portability) and start sketching. You can sketch daily life objects. If don’t believe me (and why should you?) go read/look at ‘Everyday matters’ by Dany Gregory (he also has a YT channel, if you prefer watching moving pictures instead of turning pages but I think are way more… complete and interesting than most of his videos). You may even throw in a small and cheap set of non-pro watercolors (it will be much cheaper than artist-grade ones, and you need needs hundreds of colors either: a set of 12 is more than enough, heck even just 6 colors would be excellent), as they can help you realize you’re more interested in painting than sketching. And since they’re water-based, you wont get nasty smells like with oil painting, eve when doing it at home ;)
• Find some craft, DIY activity you enjoy? Younger I was into little scale models (plastic planes and tanks that I glued and painted), now I’m much more into crafting things we will use at home.
• Play chess? A great way to make people IRL: chess clubs, cafés, any places where (amateur) chess players like to meet. Unlike most video games it’s not ‘limited’ to a few hours of fun and excitement: people have been playing chess for thousand of years and they’re still playing it with the same excitement today: it’s challenging and there is no end to it… and every one can play (even little kids, and even bad players like myself) ;)
• Exercises. I do long daily walks. It changed my life at least as much as learning to read changed it when I was a child.

Ive thought about many of things but im unsure if i should try them

Why would that be? There is no harm in trying things out.

Go outside

If you have the resources to spare, grab a pad of paper and a basic #2 pencil, or a box of crayons, colored pencils, chalk, charcoal, whatever, and pick up drawing with it?

Also, there’s plenty of easy, and actually kinda fun, crafts you could mess around with.

Although, given this is traditional art or crafts I’m suggesting, you’ll also need some way to digitize it if you want to show it off online.

That’s an extremely open ended question with countless answers…

• speedrun your favorite game
• become a youtuber and play games while streaming
• play a game with just your feet
• play a game blindfolded
• play a game randomizer
• learn to program
• program shit
• learn an instrument
• play music and post it online
• make shitposts
• learn to draw
• draw porn
• draw not porn
• write poems
• film solo comedy skits
• do multiple of these things at once

…do anything because you want to do it.

That’s all I could think of while on the toilet.

I do quite a lot of writing, knitting, gaming, crochet, website making, and game development on my old T430. Also emacs is a hobby, and I use it with all of the above, so count that in xD

• Writing: Good creative outlet, lotta fun, you can do it on a toaster if you’re really strapped for PC specs. Fanfic is especially fun, and a very common way to cut your chops writing.
• Knitting: Useful! You get clothes and wash rags and bags at the end of it! Can be rough on the hands though.
• Crochet: See knitting. Harder on the hands IMO, but I also tension like I’m strangling someone, so that could be my fault.
• Gaming: Depends on the game you’re playing. Retro stuff does well, and is a fun hobby in itself.
• Website making: It’s fun having a blog, and if you want to feed the writing into it you could even do some basic ARG-type stuff.
• Game development: RPG Maker, Godot, and Ren’py all work well. If you can’t draw there are some premade assets on itch.io to play around with, free and paid. Requires less coding than you’d expect, especially with RPGMaker/Ren’Py

My laptop oriented hobbies in no particular order: Coding, music making, writing, 3d modeling, gaming

Volunteer for things you find interesting or fun.

Check out OpenStreetMap:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
And help map out your area.

You can help out with a variety of different research projects over on the Zooniverse:
https://www.zooniverse.org/

Help out with research on wildlife in your area:
https://www.inaturalist.org/

Contribute to Wikipedia:
https://www.wikipedia.org/

If you feel passionate about consumer rights, you can contribute to the wiki here:
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page

If you like to tinker with electronics, check out Fulu Bounties and get paid for helping to get around DRM on refrigerators or on an Xbox.
https://bounties.fulu.org/

Then of course there’s always volunteering for organizations nearby.

Why? I have reasons for each of these projects but for me it just sparks joy in contributing to projects that will help others.

Game development. Just to make a simple 2D game you have tools that require varying amounts of money, from nothing to a few hundred bucks. Look into Game Maker and Godot, or RPG Maker if you want to make an RPG. If you don’t want to code, Game Maker or RPG Maker are probably your best bet.

I go through phases of collecting/trialing hobbies as a hobby. I develop a list of things I’m interested in, what about them is drawing my interest, how much it would cost to jump into entry-level projects, and a target I want to hit to get to understand if it’s a hobby I want to keep one not. Also how I’ll learn.

So for me that looks something like:

1. leatherworking, I really want a customized notebook holder that fits exactly what I’m looking for. That’s $20 in basic tools, $50 in leather including enough for simpler projects as I develop skills. Target is to try something simple, like a baggage tag or simple bifold wallet to see if I like it before spending more time and money on it. Plenty of YouTube videos available, local Tandy store has classes, my sister also knows the basics.

2. digitizing the parents’ photo negatives. I want a brain dead project to do while watching movies during cold winter evenings when I’m not going outside. Cost is negligible, I have the stuff I need. Time needed to develop a good workflow and file naming and tagging system. Maybe some YouTube videos if needed, brother is a photographer and willing to consult on workflow. Longer term: buy external hard drives and gift to siblings or talk to brother about his Immich server. Branch off I to new project to self-host Immich myself?

I have six more items on the “do I want to turn these into hobbies” list. It’s a hobby in itself to learn about and plan potential hobbies.

Origami, you can start very cheap and simple and with time get into as complex as you want and still not expensive.

Have you tried crochet or knitting? It can be both simple and complicated, big and small projects.

Knitting is more suitable for clothes, stretchy things.

Crochet is more suitable for stiff things like amiguries, bags etc.

You can 100% make clothes with crochet and bags with knitting. It’s maybe not as common only