My two main hobbies are amassing wealth and being bad at finance so it probably gets me about 500€.
Found the (Republican) American!
Confidently wrong x 2
Sadly republicans seem to be doing better financially
Rich (US) Democrats also exist.
Democrat =/= Leftist
You guys have stable hobbies…?
If you count “starting new hobbies” as a hobby, then I could get like 4-5 hobbies out of it, around 200-250$ is a reasonable buy-in for a new one.So, is your ADHD medicated?
Yes, but we’ve been having a few hot days around here and temperatures over 30°C really degrade the effectiveness of the medication. I bought a sewing machine on Saturday.
Ha, good guess on my part, or game recognising game…
wh— ok that explains a lot about why I’m such a pansy about heat
i wonder if stimulants are biochemically less effective in heat, or it’s just that our brains have to also deal with the sensory overload of melting to death thus eating into the medication’s mitigation of dopamine deficit… or both perhaps
Two and a half hard drives.
Yeah, about 72TB if I find a sale
Data hoarder?
One-handed media connesieur.
Yup.
I get 1 nice drone or 2 small ones.
Lost a 500€ infrared drone 2 days ago in a sugar beet field because “I don’t need the GPS when flying near the street” and then I was too high to make out if it was a deer or a rabbit and the powerline in between disrupted the radio signal, so the drone went into failsave and stopped all movement, getting carried by the wind into the field and it fell in a way that the battery disconnected… thank you for reading… I’m sad now…
If you had two infrared drones you could have started a rescue mission with the second one.
True! But only while the motors were hot!
Put one of those beepers that beeps when the battery has disconnected on there, it saved me at least a few times.
Damn that’s a shame. What resolution was the IR camera?
Just an analog one, the RunCam night eagle 3
Two chicks at the same time.
Office Space in the wild! Love to see it
I also enjoy being a warm, cinnamon bun.
Imagine 1000 thread count linen. The cloud soft pillows and the nice mattress. (I’m not actually sure how much bed things are.)
… my favorite hobby “this week”
A basic road bike I guess? 😅
*hi-fives in serial hobbyist that also just got into bicycles*
(except there’s been a heat advisory where I live for the past week so I can’t ride safely 😭)
Ah! Same here… I just went 20 minutes really early in the morning 🤣
The wind is good when you’re moving but as soon as you stop for a red light… you die…!
*gets run over bc i didn’t want to stop and lose all my speed and the airflow keeping me uncooked*
If you already have a good computer, that much money could outfit an entire home music recording studio with decent gear, especially if you buy good used gear, which is easily available:
A couple of good super-budget guitars from Harley Benton (a Strat clone and a Les Paul clone), for about $300 (new).
A good Yamaha acoustic guitar, $100.
A bass, $75.
An interface, to get the music into the computer, $50.
A basic MIDI controller, $30.
A good electronic keyboard with weighted keys, $100.
Microphone, $75.
Headphones, $50.
Electronic drum machine, $50, or use the pads on the MIDI controller, or voices on the keyboard.
DAW - Reaper is free, and works great.
That’s approximately what I spent on my studio, and everything works great, and sounds terrific…
2 years of yoga classes.
Or
All of the garden beds, fencing, and good soil I got for the garden.
3 cheap synths but only half a more expensive one.
Reasonable amount of average magic cards or just a few good ones.
Half a graphics card.
Some nice wood for woodworking, but not that much if decent quality.
A flight ticket.
3 festival tickets.
0.5kg of ketamine.
A lot of 3D printing filament.
2 Warhammer figures.
3 years of swimming pool subscription.
Another hobby. Two, if I’m lucky.
Half of a full army, maybe some brushes.
Almost endless quantities (for me anyway) of 3d printing filament and small electronic parts.
All the Japanese language resources for a lifetime you need and then some more for lessons if you want.
- Wanikani and Bunpro might be about 300€ together for a lifetime.
- A few grammar books with extra exercises, like Genki, would be less than 200€ I think.
- Writing supplies, a computer, Internet access etc is assumed.
- 500€ Could likely get private tutoring for quite a few lessons I think. You may also want to look at courses by the nearby university or language school, or get additional support resources.
Japanese learning resources are really amazing nowadays. Tons of good free content too, like articles on grammar or YouTube Videos by people explaining stuff. If you cut Wanikani and Bunpro and go with Anki (FOSS) instead for SRS, you can go really cheap.
That is, the price you pay for learning the Japanese language is also that it takes a fuck ton of time to get anywhere. But then again, you understand Japanese after that, how cool is that??
A couple pieces niche test equipment that I’ll ude once a year.
