I currently don’t have much time to put into hobbies, but I did some gardening/landscaping during a break in the rain last weekend. Felt great to get out and move around. Garden finally is put to bed for the winter (or what’s left of it).
Selfhosting via local servers is my fav thing recently. Learning Linux, file management, safe backups, how to host services privately and publically, FOSS and free alternatives to normal everyday software. The list of benefits go on
Nice. Yeah, I do that a bit. I’ve got some media services like plex, jellyfin and calibre. I run Caddy for reverse proxy. I’ve got immich for photos. Nextcloud for files. A couple websites.
I’ve been looking for a good FOSS budget tracker…seems like local gnuCash is still the best. Also looking to get a good system for android backups. Currently I just backup photos and files, but it would be cool to do full image backups.
Regarding the budget tracker: https://www.actualbudget.com
Ha! I have actually come across this before (I believe it was on lemmy), but entirely forgot and never went back to checkout the demo. Thanks for the recommendation!
I turned votes off on my instance because I find them toxic… case in point I guess.
The whole reason I’m here is because I thought Lemmy makes more sense than Reddit for someone who likes selfhosting :) isn’t that the whole point of the fediverse lol
Well, you got a bunch of upvotes and just the one down vote, so I think you’re right (only disclosing in case you were worried, won’t do it again if I see you around 😉
I recently took up lock picking as a hobby. It’s fairly cheap (you can get a beginner pick set from Covert Instruments for $25) and it’s fun. It helps me disconnect from screens and I slow down a bit. You can pickup a bunch of used padlocks and practice on those, or you can buy practice locks online for pretty cheap.
You can buy a good handpan on Temu for like 100$. Incredibly easy to learn and very satisfying to play!
Look for Kurd tuning and around 45cm size and avoid tongue ones (one with holes) and you’ll have a blast, especially if you have an edible or some acid.
Had to google it. Then upon seeing it, I had to youtube it. I might have to buy one for my wife
They’re a bit worse overall. The tongued ones are easier to manufacture and tune but somehow that also means the quality is just worse in general. It also has a bit of this metalic tone which is harder to play nicely but you can hand cover the holes to manipulate the sound as an advanced technique. Also tongued ones are better played with sticks rather than hands so the instrument just feels different overall and smacking the handpan with your hands (thus the name) is much more fun.
That being said, tongued handpands are still cool and can be very flexible though for first handpan I’d go with the traditional one.
Traditional ones are more than a month’s salary for me, where the tongued ones are affordable, even on the upper end. That’s why I was a bit alarmed to hear recommendations not to go with one. 😀
Well, it’s on my mind because I’m missing it lately. Haven’t had the stamina to do anything in weeks.
And, tbh, the degree to which I’m able to do it is way below what I used to, and what I wish I could.
But martial arts. I mostly miss the weapons based stuff nowadays, what with getting too old to hit the ground and get back up fast lol. But I miss that stuff too. Up until fucking covid, I had been back training as my body and that of my teacher’s allowed. Then, for while after covid, I was teaching a small group of kids. When that had to stop because of school needs (except my own kid), I switched to mostly solo stuff.
But between my body deteriorating, having extra stuff to do that’s higher priority, I just can’t do it like I want. Most weeks, if I get in a total of an hour fucking around with something, it’s a good week this last year.
Back before Christmas, I had some time where I could use my stamina for that almost exclusively, and it was fun. Just fucking around, doing knife and cane practice a few times a day, maybe twenty minutes at a go. Then I fucked my back up doing something unrelated lol. Mind you, it’s always fucked up, but I pulled a muscle on top of that.
And that’s the sucky part of passing fifty. Even ten years ago, I would be better at this point, and I was disabled then too.
Could be worse though!
Just started learning how to play the ocarina today! It will take some time until I’ll be any good, but I’m hoping to have fun while learning.
Ocarinas are loads of fun, and then the next step, once you’ve mastered them, is to use the ones without the fipple like this one:
Or, alternatively, the multi-barrelled ones with multiple fipples:
Both have their charms and frustrations.
