I'm reading about hazing

Rc cars! Wroom wroom! Found my ancient rc car I had as a child and have started taking it apart and assembling it again, while slowly getting into the hobby again.

37 Atmospheres.

Right now it's knitting and electronics - working on a deep blue shawl with sparkling beads in the pattern of a star chart, and wiring and coding up a pair of motion-reactive light-up pole dancing heels for my wife, fun stuff ❤️

Whilst not "Nerdy", I had to make a spreadsheet of my DVD collection as I have too many to remember 🤣
I'm just shy of 400, possibly closer as some are boxsets.

I've purchased a few doubles before I made it.

Is there such a thing as 'finishing' the dvd collection I wonder? How many were released? What constitutes a release? When was the last one released? When was the first?

Linux and Beatmaking. Finally just me and my PC again! Love it!

I would love to see both of those projects when they're finished, both sound so awesome!

Gaming. Went back and 100%ed a few games like Neon White, Exit 8, Omori, and Space Marine and my god did it feel good. I think this is what got me out of my depressive episode/alcoholism. Hopefully this time I won't relapse.

Oh damn that's awesome. Which DAW do you use?

LMMS of course :))

Emulation. I set up ShadPS4 on my Linux machine and i've been playing around with that. I've also been playing with RPCS3. Also fuck AI, but it's cool finally being able to play P.T. on my PC. I don't like vibe coding but there's something poetic about folks using AI tools from a billion dollar company to decompile and port games made by another billion dollar company.

Those big wooden jigsaw puzzles with intricate little pieces. Lets me get away from all the screens for a while

Audio fx envelopes (not the sustain/decay kinds or whatever)

What if you could aurally watch something change from one thing to the parametric opposite over time?

Keyframes are insane

Space constraints will "finish" my collection unless I purchase a big DVD wallet to compress the collection 🥲.
I class releases as different regions, if they're director cuts and sometimes if the old first releases of that movie have scenes still in them.

Home Alone 2 is one I think of instantly, They used trump tower for the hotel lobby and he just had to be in the movie for them to be allowed to film there.
It's been cut out in later releases, sometimes it's added as an extra.

I'm playing around with some lidar data obtained from shuttle missions. The visualisations of landscapes are dope.

I mean, I've been super hyped about Avatar Seven Havens since I first heard about it. So I am kinda impatiently waiting for the final episodes of book 1.

I personally love the fact that they added India tones to the show to really give off a more distinct vibe from the previous 2 shows in the series. Also really like the art style and music choice. Story has me pumped to see how they manage to keep things going. Especially as we very slowly learn about Korra.

So yeah, I'm kinda invested in the show, if you couldn't already tell.

Computers! After ~15 years as a professional software developer, I have gotten so burnt out, but this week I had so much fun coding for myself. I made a website: sloptrough.art, its not much but it's very gratifying to have hosted it on my own hardware with raw html & JavaScript. I'm using proxmox, a hypervisor, to run OpenBSD which is running apache server. As OSs go, OpenBSD is paradoxically complex and unintuitive (command-line first, by enthusiasts for enthusiasts) yet also user-friendly and approachable (there are breadcrumbs down a path of well-written manual pages; I haven't had to google at all).

Also, woodworking: i turned a pallet into garden storage to help clean up the patio

Not answering the question but I feel its more about simple things than nerdy things. Things that do not have large cost or to hard to get. The exception being when the chase is what gives the enjoyment like collecting.

Reticulum/Nomad net.

Reticulum is a network that can run over regular internet, bare WiFi, long range radio, even a serial cable. No central server, secure by default, works on slow/unreliable lines.

NomadNet is an app that runs on it that is reminiscent of the pre-netscape internet days. Text sites, no javascript. If you dig in deep enough, you can make your own games/chat bots/host offline Wikipedia and display images using ascii style art or even half tone text blocks.

I daily drove OpenBSD for a bit and it was amazing :3
Am on Gentoo now tho :3

I've been watching it with my kids, and I've been thoroughly enjoying it! Being half Indian myself, it's definitely cool to see more representation than just Guru Pathik (though I did love him)

I did a rewrite of my personal website either earlier this year or last year, and it was so addicting! I couldn't stop working on it.

I've gotten back into the original nerdy interest: reading! Right now, I'm reading The Three Musketeers, and it is so much more entertaining than sitting around and scrolling.

Mycology, shibari rope, and music theory

Getting more into the BSDs.

I have OpenBSD as a desktop on a laptop I have and it's great.

Also wanting to get back into retrocomputing.

Yeah, I describe OpenBSD as very easy... for those already who are already quite familiar with Unix.

Very nice for setting up quick servers.

ADHD won't let me 😭

I've gotten really into MeshCore with my local mesh and radio nerds. We have a network that is able to send messages over 300 miles away.

Does anyone want to get into a long ass discussion about either Battletech or Naval History?

I just started sewing and it feels like a thing I could devote all my time and energy to

yeah, i live in a hole with no one owning anything higher than our houses. Neighbors have no interest. I have no LOS to anything but them.

Really want to get to the kids school which is less than a mile, but RLOS is a no-go. two people own high ground in the middle.

No water towers, just power company and cell phone and those are two placed i don't wish to fuck with.

If it only was a bit more power efficient I'd use it on my old laptop. FreeBSD was a bit better, but still not quite there.

Woodworking. Physical activity, relaxing, and can save money.

I have been self-hosting Zusam for sharing photos of kids with the family. After a bit of a chat with the dev I forked the web app and started smashing in new features and customising it to work more how I want it to work, to be my vision instead of his. It's a heavier webapp than Zusam's very light one but it works well I reckon. It just sits over Zusam kind of like how alternate UIs work in Lemmy.

That's been my determined focus the last week or so, but I'm probably about to stop for 6 months because that's how I roll.

Qgis has a great plugin for turning DEMs into 3d printable STL objects! If you play around with the vertical exaggeration, depending on how much elevation change the terrain has, you can print some AMAZING things!

If you can get yourself a cheap 3d printer this is an excellent add-on to your hobby :)

Woodworking is great for doing something alone and unlike say, golf, no one else wants to talk to you about it, so you're spared a lot of unsolicited opinions on how you're doing it wrong.

Yeah, I had been thinking about something like that.

The options are endless really.

Looking at the visualisations stimulates some kind of spatial awareness part of my brain. Like when you look at a map with roads you momentarily try to place yourself. With out roads that feeling is kind of extended and deepened.

Unexplainable really.

It's like doing engineering without having to deal with other people.

I've been very hyperfixated on my model railroad recently. I got halfway decent at woodworking, pretty good with a drill and some brackets and wood and right now I'm building soldering and electronics skills. I've also been doing some locomotive repairs and getting pretty good disassembling, diagnosing and repairing them!

Most recently I've been focused on electronics and building a nice collection of components. I'm strongly considering spinning up a side gig selling some pre-made circuits that for whatever reason just arent available right now despite being fairly desirable and fairly simple to solder up if you're willing to do a bit of reading and warm up the soldering iron

I had to spend months getting approval to stick a repeater node up at the local HOA park that I'm not a member of, but now I can get out much easier than the hole that my house is also in.