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Looking through Netflix or prime video or something and not finding anything interesting? Try reading a book. Not a snarky message, actually try it out if you’re bored of movies and shows.
Not sure how to find books you’re interested in? Check out goodreads or forums like r*ddit. Search for the same genres as the shows you watch and try out the best rated books in that genre that pique your interest.
Got to the end of a TV series and feeling like you could use a bit more of it? Often the adventure continues in the form of fan fiction! Oh, the goods might be a little low quality at times, but there are plenty of pretty decent authors out there crafting stories. Sometimes they even endeavor to fix plot holes and unexplained points that inevitably pop up in any show.
I’ll +1 this but amended it to say audio books are fucking amazing.
Narrators like Tim Gerard Reynolds, Ray Porter, and Mary Robinette Kowal are class act and add to the book just as much as the author does.
I follow these narrators around for their works just as much as the author’s.
Electronics, once you realize that you can pretty much build anything you need if you can find a chip for it you’re unstoppable, at least as long as you can gather the energy to work on it (or to finally fix your broken soldering station)
Yup. I started out with a keyboard.
NIce board!
I almost started out with keyboards, but I ordered a kit from gboards.ca (fully expecting there to be delays), and the person behind that just went poof, and so did the money :/
In the meantime I’ve been playing around with my g305 mouse (ported ZMK to it, no sensor driver yet) and some other projects, but I still want to build a split at some point, I even have the switches laying around already.
Chess!
RC cars and trucks - not children’s toys, these are hobby-grade 1/10 scale (or bigger!) Radio controlled beasts that can go 45+ mph. They have a lot of the same types of adjustability and principals as a real car, but in a package that’s so much more affordable and accessible.
See - Traxxas Slash as a nice starting point if you’re interested
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My main hobby is basically “making cool stuff” and I honestly think being able to make something is worth it for everyone. That could mean knitting or crochet or sewing, it could mean pottery or origami.
But it could also mean programming. I’m really into gamedev as a hobby and consider it just another part of the “making cool stuff” hobby along with all those more traditional crafts.
Bonus of course is that learning to program is a massively useful life skill in general!
I’m definitely a “making stuff” enjoyer as well - whether it’s programming, woodworking, cooking. A good parallel is “fixing things”, if something I have breaks I will usually try to fix it myself before going to a professional. I discovered I really enjoy working on small engines this way - it kept breaking, so I kept fixing it and now I’m able to rebuild an entire 2 stroke engine myself.
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