Sounds like a good life to be honest. I’m probably just romanticizing the days I was a little too young to remember, but I wish I were one of those self-taught programmers, hackers, tinkerers. Everything’s opaque and user-friendly and/or optimized to the point of illegibility now.
You’re never too old to start learning that stuff.
For networking, there’s a ton of resources on selfhosting and homelabbing, and big communities here on lemmy and elsewhere. It can be as expensive a hobby as you want, you can stretch an old laptop pretty far, get really cheap stuff from the cloud, or build a data closet in your house/apartment.
If you wanted to learn more about software, Rust has a ton of high quality official documentation available and would be really valuable knowledge for a career.
For the raw hardware tinkering getting the $30 essentials set from ifixit will get you into 90% of consumer devices, and even as a professional I’m usually watching a 5 minute youtube video before dissassembling anything, and that’s really all you need.
We used to have an Orinoco basin themed tank, Corydoras Delphax, Otto’s, Cardinal tetras, Farlowella acus (twig catfish) and a couple of huge Altum Angelfish.
We had some luck with the Cory’s but just like you the Otto’s proved stubborn.
I left reddit for all the obvious reasons but yeah… Lemmy is significantly lacking in the niche community engagement. Reddit was great for that and getting a REAL answer to something you were googling.
Aquariums, miniature painting, hell even on LemmyNSFW 90% of the posts are all posted by the same three bots that somehow always end up on the “Everything - Top/Active” page.
Jailbroke iPhones for $20 a pop in highschool. Blew it all on fireworks.
Flipped broken consoles before the market got too saturated to profit. Blew it all on video games.
Currently breeding fish. Blowing it all on more fish.
I’m bad at saving money.
Sounds like a good life to be honest. I’m probably just romanticizing the days I was a little too young to remember, but I wish I were one of those self-taught programmers, hackers, tinkerers. Everything’s opaque and user-friendly and/or optimized to the point of illegibility now.
You still can fix your fridge, stove, washing machine when it breaks down with a web search and some patience !
But cars seems to be quite out of reach for anything except the most simple.
You’re never too old to start learning that stuff.
For networking, there’s a ton of resources on selfhosting and homelabbing, and big communities here on lemmy and elsewhere. It can be as expensive a hobby as you want, you can stretch an old laptop pretty far, get really cheap stuff from the cloud, or build a data closet in your house/apartment.
If you wanted to learn more about software, Rust has a ton of high quality official documentation available and would be really valuable knowledge for a career.
For the raw hardware tinkering getting the $30 essentials set from ifixit will get you into 90% of consumer devices, and even as a professional I’m usually watching a 5 minute youtube video before dissassembling anything, and that’s really all you need.
Ooh, what kind of fish? I used to be deep in the world of aquarium fish before life had its way with me.
Corydoras catfish, mostly. Trying for otos but haven’t had much luck yet.
Ahh man I love me some Cory’s.
We used to have an Orinoco basin themed tank, Corydoras Delphax, Otto’s, Cardinal tetras, Farlowella acus (twig catfish) and a couple of huge Altum Angelfish.
We had some luck with the Cory’s but just like you the Otto’s proved stubborn.
That sounds like a fun tank! I wish the fishkeeping communities were more active here.
I left reddit for all the obvious reasons but yeah… Lemmy is significantly lacking in the niche community engagement. Reddit was great for that and getting a REAL answer to something you were googling.
Aquariums, miniature painting, hell even on LemmyNSFW 90% of the posts are all posted by the same three bots that somehow always end up on the “Everything - Top/Active” page.