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Tatting!

Junk journaling. The amount of free paper in life is still kinda astounding. Get some crappy book about how to become an overnight billionaire and wreck it with art. Make a collage in it with paste and scrap paper, sales papers, business cards, packaging, etc. Badaboom.

Just got the Thinknode M9, there are dozens of us ;)

Listening to podcasts! It's the best of all worlds in terms of media consumption

“Kid” arts and crafts. Pick whatever you have lying around and make something cool out of it.

I hoard delivery boxes because the possibilities are endless. I love making temporary furniture out of them. A chair for a couple of evenings, a play house for my kid, an absolutely massive advent calendar for my partner. I did bookshelves, display cabinets, I am planning a kid couch.

I also hoard old fabrics, t-shirts and linen mostly, to turn into whatevers. A book sleeve, a mask, a cake transport bag…

I love the creative process of fixing a problem first with ingenuity then with my hands

Shutting the fuck up when they have no idea what they're talking about and instead, sitting back, listening and trying to understand - and if they don't understand, ask questions to those trying to teach them. If the person trying to teach them can't provide evidence for the things they're saying, treat their teachings with scepticism.

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Myself have a seeed solar, wio ,2 heltec v4 , liligo t beam supreme and 2 seeed T1000e, started reading about it nov.2025.
About 66500 nodes on map worldwide.

Liligo T beam will be used as rnode for reticulum network.

Maybe answer with an actual hobby or take your own advice.

Burlesque! It's largely a fun body positive space. Plus you get to make things that sparkle.

Astronomy. Learn that you're not the centre of the universe. Kinda the same thing as my first post.

Unicycling. A good bit of fun once you get the hang of it a bit, and good exercise too. It can be a bit hard at first, but it's worth the time if you have it.

Harvesting components and metals from broken electronics, if you can't fix them.

Making electronic music. It can be done for basically $free if you have a laptop, and it's super fun!

Honestly, I'm amazed that smartphones haven't given rise to a ton of people using trackers or synths and whatnot. I remember going and looking on F-Droid and being a bit surprised that there was limited tracker software, often ports of old stuff.

Okay, you need headphones, but it seems like the kind of thing that generally, one could do in bursts while riding mass transit or waiting in line or whatever, and where smartphone hardware isn't a really limiting factor.

Birding! Super chill and costs nothing to get started. Even beginners can contribute to citizen science projects. Being out in nature has been shown to improve mental health.

Contirbuting to open-source, open data and so on!

For example, why not contribute to OpenStreetMaps? You will help others and also will be going around your city more, possible discovering more interesting stuff :)

Or why not contribute to OpenFoodFacts? Adding prices, updating data, fixing wrong data - so much fun! And useful.

Or did you know that there is open review system, including places on openstreetmaps, companies, books? https://mangrove.reviews/
It is notably used in CoMaps. You can check plaes that you had been in and inform people about good/bad aspects of said place!

And more!
Making world a slightly better place together.

Voting.
Reading real news sources.

What then though? I have heaps of motherboards and broken tech over the years.

Related to this, hiking! It's free, is good for your health both physically and mentally, and accessible to most people.

Choir singing.
Yes, you can.

The lack of self awareness just made my day. Have a good one.

Acting! Sign up for an evening acting class at a local community college. Don't have ambitions of stardom, just join in. I did this in my late 20s. Besides being extremely fun, it really raised my confidence level and almost instantly gave me a thriving social life. And you can use the skills you learn in acting training to cope with difficult life situations.

For example, I learned to eliminate stress in job interviews by reframing the situation - it's not even an interview, I already work there and it's my first day back after being away for a while. I love the work and the people in the group, our manager is awesome, it's going to be so great to see everybody again! So when I walk into the room I genuinely feel like I belong there, which projects 100% culture fit right away. Another example, one time when I went out with a couple friends to an Irish bar on St. Patrick's Day, the place was jam-packed, and I've never liked crowds. So I quickly got into the character of somebody who LOVES crowds, who revels in swimming through that sea of people. I had a great evening, and even met a woman I ended up dating.

Anyway, take an acting class - you won't regret it.

Depends on how involved you want to get. The best is getting all the gold, you can use a air soldering gun to make it fairly easy or just pliers. Then capacitors and silicon chips. The older the tech them more value. You would likely be best off selling that to someone that specializes in recovering the metals. The gold you can look up and see the chemical process to purify it and melt it into a chunk. If you're not into it, you can sell because it's a bit dangerous lol

DRUGS

Cooking.

Learning how to prepare foods. Nothing fancy, but I find it a stress relieving activity. Then I get to eat at the end. I learned from watching Good Eats, where the host broke down the science behind how the food is cooking and why you do certain things. Like cutting a steak with the grain vs against the grain.

I think J. Kenji Lopez-Alt with Food Labs is a more modern version of Alton Brown. And a little less pretentious, but I'm sure there are others. Cooking is an art. Learn the basics and you can throw together all sorts of food and make it taste good.

Streetcomplete turns it into a game, when updating local roads and landmarks.

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

Also this week,it is now available on iOS.

Yoga

I think I need a cooking course. There's a lot of little tricks and tips that pro chefs do for a lot of things. I hate not knowing how to do so much. I also love to eat.

Got some recommendations?

Well, it would depend on your interests. I'm into astrophysics, so I listen to Astronomy Cast (hosted by Fraiser Cain and Dr Pamela Gay, this one is probably my favourite), Ask a Spaceman! (hosted by Paul M. Sutter), StarTalk (with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice, often there's other presenters too), the Supermassive Podcast (by the Royal Astronomical Society), and the NASA ones too (like Curious Universe and Houston We Have a Podcast)

If you're not as into space stuff, I know the Lateral and the Technical Difficulties are great if you want more nerdy stuff from Tom Scott and co. There are plenty of awesome ones out there (as long as you avoid the sketchy political commentary, manosphere, or similarly awful sort)

It might seem overwhelming at first, but just take the first steps. Even if you mess up a dish, it's still a plus because of the learning experience.

I still have problems cooking seafood. They go from done to rubbery real quick. I just roasted broccoli for the first time last week and that was awesome.