Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people’s way of earning, for example fishing.
I brew alcohol and grow mushrooms(gourmet and non-gourmet)
Man I wish home distilling wasn’t illegal as fuck where I live …
You can’t even brew beer? No distillation needed there
I don’t do great with beer or wine, increases my digestive issues. Otherwise I’d totally try my hand at an English bitter or something like that, British beers are nearly impossible to get here (at best pale ales or IPAs, which I hate) and I don’t like the local styles.
FWIW if you’ve only ever had commercially produced wine, your issues may actually be stemming from the sulphates used to preserve the wine. You may want to pick up a bottle of sulphate-free wine and see what happens; You may be pleasantly surprised. And if that ends up being the case, homebrewed wine obviously wouldn’t have those sulphates.
My assumption was that it’s related to histamines (which would explain why I do badly with both beer and wine), but might as well try your suggestion.
Apparently I study timekeeping so much that I can program a clock on a graphing calculator without using any timer function.
It takes a fixed amount of time to alter a pixel on the screen, and when carefully crafted, the pixel clock itself serves as a timer.
I’m actually currently testing such a clock demo on my Casio right now.
are there significant differences in pixel response as battery voltage goes down?
Very good question!
At this moment I don’t know for sure.
I’ve only been running it on consistent 5V USB power until yesterday.
I am keeping the voltage level question in mind though…
Welp, one of my 4 batteries died today (no worries on the memory on this model). I found a spare battery, but between that and switching back and forth to USB power, it does seem the calculator’s speed might be lightly affected by voltage levels and even possibly by temperature.
Hey, ain’t nothing perfect…
I guess it doesn’t matter since you can’t look at it with a dead battery anyway.
Update: To answer your question, yes apparently the calculator is indeed sensitive to variables such as battery voltage and even possibly/likely the temperature.
I made a couple tweaks to the display layout, but left the core minute pixel timer algorithm alone. Tonight’s test shows it’s already off by a minute after only 25 minutes of running.
Oh well, it’s still a fun experiment, even though I was already aware I might be playing with digital fire with this silly project. 🤷♂️
Timekeeping?
Yes, as in the studies of everything between keeping up with time zone rules, knowing when the next lunar eclipse is (in the USA that’s coming up shortly early morning March 14), and even learning and understanding how long different CPU instructions take.
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 do almost the same thing as a(n unpaid) hobby that I do as my (paid) job. I’m a software developer who writes open-source software on the side.
I’ve also seen a few of my other hobbies grow into serious industries with real employees. The (hobby) drone industry and the 3D printing industry are quite large and growing (I assume).
I write software for fun and give it away. I also write software for money and don’t give it away.
Good man!
🤘 Ditto!
I got really into cocktails a few years ago. No way I’d be able to keep up at a real bar, even if I probably know more cocktails than many of the bartenders I’ve personally interacted with (TBF I haven’t been to a bar since I really got into cocktails, and before I got into it I just went wherever it was cheap). Fixing drinks is at best half of the job anyway, and I’m rubbish at the people stuff.
What’s the distinction between cocktails and mixed drinks?
“Cocktail” is more specific. Originally, it was identical with what’s now called an Old Fashioned, i.e. spirit, sugar, bitters and water/ice. Later the term started including other alcoholic drinks like sours, martini etc.; I’ve seen people claim in discussions that’s it’s down to the amount of ingredients (e.g. a Rum & Coke is not a cocktail, but rum, cola and lime (Cuba Libre) might be) or a specific care exercized in preparation, but I think it’s ultimately arbitrary.
Anyway, one of my favourite drinks is the Twice Up (whisky and water mixed 1:1, works great with many other spirits). Hard to call this a cocktail, considering adding water to whisky is just a completely normal way of drinking whisky in Scotland. The Scots just pour the water freehand instead of measuring an exact amount.
I’m Scottish and used to drink single malt straight from the bottle lol.
There’s nothing quite like drinking an entire bottle of glenmorangie and waking up the next day still drunk
Edit: I wonder if ketamine and whisky counts as a cocktail
Oh yeah, Scotland did (does?) have high numbers of drug deaths … does Glasgow really suck that much?
Highest in Europe allegedly. There are a lot of deprived areas in the country including parts of Glasgow, but Glasgow city is a great place to visit.
Cool, thank you for teaching me something :)
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?
Kind of the opposite, but I void warranties for a living. Pays pretty well too.
My current favorite outside of gaming is selfhosting or homelabbing. Maybe not to a high degree but I manage four local servers and one offsite, with four websites. It’s pretty fun but makes me super stress when it fails. One of those websites is a work related database but it’s also very fun to manage.
Another small hobby I have is managing my own small library. Using LOC codes I learned from the library. I inherited a massive collection from retiring profs.
I try playing the guitar and taking photos.
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).
Apparently there are people who receive monetary compensation for drawing comics. Some apparently can even do that as their main job. That’s what I heard at least, they seem to be rare.
Gaming.
Photography. I got back into it last year and have really enjoyed the process. I’ve learned a lot in a really short time.
I make and publish music but not popular enough to live off of it.
