Man I got lucky with 3d printing and self hosting. As long as I am not trying to buy new hardware and upgrade every month the cost of filament and time is small enough to not impact my family.

That and home construction projects, strangely enough no one bats and eye at a $250 chainsaw, but I go and spend $80 on a used GPU and people flip the fuck out about being irresponsible.

Tools are cool AF and if you use them on a project or two its easy to justify to other people. Yes i need a table saw, yes I need a mitre saw, yes I need a router, clearly I need this full set of battery tools....

[–] DoomsdaySprocket@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you get people to not bat an eye at the chainsaw?

I’m still biding my time after the m18 hackzall until I’m allowed to go back to the tool store. Then I’ll be able to run around my backyard like a space marine with dangerous power tools, like the adult I am.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

its been a crazy year for trees falling in my area. I had a neighbor who lost 5 trees in one storm, we lost 2 so far this year and had some big branches come down too.

Its $$$ for the chainsaw but it costs less than what we would have paid for the tree people to take care of it.

[–] CaptainLemmit@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago

The secret is not having any money to buy stuff in the first place

[–] Raf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The trick is to do the hobbies for their own sake instead of using them as a means to an end.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This, and also a good organization system (this is very subjective... What works for me probably wouldn't work for 99% of people) to make it easy to come back to a project when you eventually feel like working on it again.

Edit: honestly disposable income is a huge part of this. I finally have money to buy things purely for organization, I have extra space where I live, and I don't feel guilty about the money I spend on new hobbies.

[–] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, the reminder that I probably have ADHD because I have a hobby cycle and boredom intolerance.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

This cycle is why I really loved the idea shown in The Matrix where Neo is just given knowledge by having it uploaded directly to his brain from a computer.

Fuck yes, I want to download the ability to play guitar and do kung fu. Sign me the hell up!

[–] zxo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Too real. I wish I could stay interested in hobbies after I already got all the expensive stuff for them :(

[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is impressive how great you can generate pictures with IA, to make a 4 pannel comic in minutes.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really need to get around to playing with Midjourney and ChatGPT.

[–] voluntaryexilecat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Check out Stable Diffusion and the llama model family. You can run those offline on your local hardware and wont have to worry about sharing private details with some cloud service that openly says they will look at your discussions and data and use it for training.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sounds awesome! What kinda hardware would we need for that? Our machines are a 9900k/3070ti and a 12600k/3070; I would assume they should suffice?

[–] voluntaryexilecat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, that should work. Check out stable-diffusion-webui (automatic1111) and text-generation-webui (oobabooga). And grab the models from civitai (stable diffusion) and huggingface (llms like llama, vicuna, gpt-j, wizard, etc.).

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I don’t know any of those words and I will look them up shortly! Hahaha thank you!