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Chef (35 years in the industry) moved family out of the US in 2019, opened a restaurant 4 months before covid, run it with my wife...still here & have a great vibe.
Hike (not too much now, gimpy tendon & old) Bike (shifted down feom road to mountain/trail) Beach (every day in the summer) Travel (so far we have been sticking with exploring more of our adopted country) Eating
I'm 33M, single dad, and recently widowed. My son takes up a majority of my time and I love just about every moment with him. In my spare time I'm learning guitar and enjoy playing video games with friends. My job is in software engineering and I enjoy tinkering with computers.
I'm into
Ham radio
Powerlifting
Books
My life is pretty chill at the moment. Got laid off last month and am still on the job hunt.
That is quite the combination.
Lol, yeah I don't quite understand how I've managed to get into all of these simultaneously.
I want to get into ham radio. Just like the fediverse, it's decentralized, and it's the original way to chat across the globe!
Do it! If you're in the US, you can even take the test online now.
Ham radio
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
tech, movies, music and social media.
im one of those "works too many hours" types. If im not in front of a screen I'm hanging out with my family or the feral cats we are rehabbing.
I'm a 28 yo trans woman and switched careers from arts admin to data science in healthcare. I'm learning UE5 in the hopes of realizing a game idea (city-builder/resource manager on a floating Rubik's cube).
Special interests change regularly and include: electrical engineering, software development, anything space / cosmology / physics, sewing, piano, etc... It's a problem.
I adopted to cats Shadow Lady and Stinky Jane last year and they are everything to me.
Anti-hobbies include eating, partying, public speaking, and dancing.
Software developer in his 30s. I built automation for a living. I automate my house as a hobby. I automate all things.
(I also live building racecars)
That's something I want to get into. I want to set up that self hosted software, forget what it's called, but you can integrate with IoT devices just like you can with a mainstream assistant service like Google Home.
What I really want to do is automate my blinds, which are the chain loop type, so I can say "house, open the living room blinds" like they did in Smart House, the Disney channel original movie (or maybe that was Home Alone 4, but we don't talk about that one). I found a little motorized device that integrates with these chain blinds but it was a bit pricey. Of course if I tried to make it with my own Arduino etc it would be an ugly mess.
Sounds like you're talking about Home Assistant maybe?
That's the one--thanks!
Having used it for years, its amazing. I would highly recommend it.
Of course if I tried to make it with my own Arduino etc it would be an ugly mess.
A few years back, I found I opened and closed a certain window multiple times a day to better control the environment.
Well- devices to automate opening and closing a window, just aren't something you find for sale- and, if you do- its not going to be cheap.
I ended up spending 30$ on a linear servo, a esp8266, and a couple of relays, and spent a couple hours automating the process of automatically opening and closing my window, at certain times depending on the inside, and outside temp.
It wasn't pretty at all, but, it was extremely effective... and did exactly what I needed it to do.
I'm into ham radio, tabletop gaming, 3d printing, and tech
I live in a rural mountain area, so I also get tons of outdoor time on the mountains and in the rivers.
What kind of outdoor adventures do you like?
camping
Hey! I'm into ham radio as well. Perhaps we live nearby since you mentioned mountains. I'm in grid DM79.
FM08, different mountains. Glad to see there's some hams on here though!
I'm into FOSS too, and have had a lot of hobbies though currently I spend all my time with school and an internship.
Early 30s Stay at Home Dad currently. Previously worked in a few various professions, electrician apprentice, laborer, and accountant.
A broad description of my hobbies would be tech in general, PCs, Keyboards, etc. Gaming and movies.
Life lately is finding ways to keep my toddler stimulated whether it be taking her to the beach or play groups. She starts preschool in the fall so I'm soaking up this time I'm getting with her, when she goes to school i will be looking for a job to get that double income back in the household.
I got ADHD so I enjoy a lot of things, top of them are reading, drawing, writing, learning English and Japanese and various IT/tech tinkering.
I‘m working in SAP, though I see that only as a means to sustain myself and conform, but I refuse to see the work as part of my being or personality. I try to be pleasant and funny IRL, which I‘m told works well, but on the inside I‘m a depressed mess. I try to work on that in therapy, but it‘s not super effective for me. Well it helped a bit, as I now have more of a "try to find joy in little things" attitude, but the doom is still all there.
Online, I‘m mostly to offload some of my darker thoughts on the world, which haunt me if I don‘t let them out occasionally. Reddit was my main outlet for that as it had a large variety of "doomer" subs, now I got unleashed on the fediverse, right now looking for some anti-corporate instance or maybe something anarchist to fit into.
I love video games, board games, music, and traveling. I used to love programming too, but working as a software dev for as long as I have has kind of killed that passion 😅
Life is great! I feel very fortunate to not have a lot of stressors in my life. I hope that’s more common than it seems these days!
Mid-30s web designer equally versed in design and frontend development, quiet in conversation but loud in spirit and fashion choices. Hobbies are whatever I need and whatever I can get my hands on - today it’s woodworking and construction due to a burst pipe, last year it was cooking and zero waste living plus grad school, with dashes of IndieWeb, gardening, hydroponics, and plenty of internet in between. I don’t work too many hours in the traditional sense, but I do keep myself constantly busy - full time job, side gig, fixing all the things. I am often asked if I sleep. The answer is yes! I love naps, I usually take at least one a day.
tldr: neon chaotic hobby napper here, nice to meet you.
What sort of fashion are you into?
Rainbow punk is probably the best way I can think of to describe it. If it’s candy colored, glittery, or black (because black helps colors pop) I’m all over it. I recently got a pair of magnetic glasses covers that is printed to look like a slice of watermelon, and it’s my favorite because I have pink hair at the moment and between that and the deep green lipstick I have I can get an awesome watermelon look going. I’m a big fan of mixing patterns and textures as well. I love figuring out how to get a good alt look going that makes people smile. 😁
Oh interesting! I dress mainly in athletic wear, football kits and flannel like a hardcore band so this is an interesting contrast! What did you study in grad school? Are you on a matrix server? Would love to chat more!
Ahhhh I have a flannel I live in when I teach, they’re so comfy and cute! (I teach design/web dev classes at a university in the evening). I’ve never heard of a football kit before but I think I got the idea from a quick search. I’m not on Matrix at the moment, I’m usually more a forum person because of my schedule 😁
I‘m in my early 30s, I used to be an academic doing AI stuff, for now I’m a SAHM which has been a big change. Used to do programming, gaming and embroidery in my free time, liked tinkering with my pc setup (I use arch btw). Now I don’t have much time anymore, seriously staying home with a baby is a million times more stressful than any job I ever had! So now the hobby I make time for and refuse to give up is RPGs, tabletop and PC. Can’t wait for my son to be old enough to play also.
What area of AI research were you working on?
I keep saying there should be a community for that, but at the same time Lemmy might be too small for that many communities.
Unfortunately I'm not the person you're looking for as a pen pal. Hope you find someone!
A community can be made of very few people. It just takes a desire to keep it going!