I have always thought those little warhammer figuers look pretty fun to paint, and im sure theres like interesting backstory behind them too.
I mean, if you’re bored with life, an expensive and time-consuming hobby might be exactly what you need.
Me when I got back into horses after 13 years.
Send help, I have an addiction for grooming supplies. I own like 4 stiff bristle brushes.
If you buy more you can wear them during the next Halloween so you can become a horse yourself.
Aw c’mon, let the purple guy get addicted to skydiving.
So far, I have started collecting Classic Oliver people sunglasses from the 2000s. Niche fragrances from perfume houses such as Kilian and Parfum De Marly. And then theres the lego…
And I tell ya, even when you go looking for fragrances that arent expensive, you end up buying more trying to find the perfect one. And all those 20 quids start adding up fast. But the sunglasses, the fucking sunglasses. I live in Scotland, its not even that fucking sunny. The summer is like one week a fucking year. In saying that, my pride and joy right now is actually a more recent pair. Victory LA in gold with a burgundy lens. So fucking cool. It really is a shame to put them on my ugly mug lol.
Fuck, I just remembered I also collect power tools that I rarely use. Spent almost 200 quid on a purple Makita impact driver. I have zero need for an impact driver lol
I was like, “I’ll just check out Kill Team, that way I can limit it to just the starter set and a few extra teams maybe, seems fun.”
Anyway, I just need one more Eliminator Squad with a Phobos Librarian and another Redemptor and I’ll be up to 3000 points of Blood Angels. I’ll be dead before they’re all painted.
Me: “fucking tariffs. I’ll never an Orion O6 now. Oh well.” Amazon: “hey, we have a close enough knockoff from orange pi now. It’s cheaper, uses almost exactly the same chip, and available in the US right now.”
-glares- God fucking damnit!
So uh, what’s the use case for this thing? Why do I-… er… why would someone want one?
Asking for a friend…
I want to redo my homelab setup. I’m probably going to relent and go x86 just because parts availability sucks here but those boards have low power draw, decent IO, small so you can design your own case easier, and I like the idea of keeping away from x86 if I can.
This thing is gonna run routing traffic and downloading shit and hosting my media etc. that means it’s ideal most of the time so low power draw matters more than a gaming pc would.
I’m also hesitant to use x86 chips for anything directly exposed to LAN. The backdoors in those things are crazy and I am just not skilled enough to do much about them.
I used to want to make art
Now I just want to rest
I’m just so tired
Mood
If I ever make enough money to really get into motorcycle track riding (many track days a year with a track prepped bike), I will probably not have the time for getting there and all the maintenance…
Did you know that the LD2410 can be wired directly into an ESP32 or equivalent because it operates at the 3V3 level and has an RTC GPIO that can be used as a wakeup pin? This is a huge upgrade from the LTR5-series of light sensing chips which all use the I2C protocol, because those need a UART chip on the device to handle the clock signal with a 5V open drain, despite being an easier 2-wire implementation. The send protocol of I2C slave devices are much simpler than the 1-wire or Dallas protocol used for multiplexing sensors, and relies on sending information bits in 60microsecond intervals when the clock bit is high, this ensures…
(don’t drink coffee on the train)
I wanna get into maker stuff so bad but I just don’t have the time 😭
Real talk: you will never have the time. There’s a 101 other things I should absolutely be doing but am not. I think just jump in, see where your interest takes you, and see how your life schedule evolves around it
lol. I’ve been playing around with OpenThread (XIAO ESP32C6 is officially my favorite board right now), and I’ve learned a lot. But now my bathroom light won’t reliably turn on when I walk in… But I’m learning!
All part of the fun!
And my family gets to be QA!
“Who needs beta testers when the world is your beta tester!”
Microsoft, circa 2020, probably
(don’t drink coffee on the train)
(well now i gotta find a train and drink coffee on it)
$15.99 for two LD2410 is a bargain considering I’ve been looking a presence sensors for HA and they easily cost $60+ each. This is legitimately useful information!
Do you only need the ESP and presence sensor or is extra circuitry needed? I can probably print out some type of enclosure.
You can get them much cheaper than that on AliExpress hehe, though you might pay twice for quality. And yep you can wire them straight into each other, no pull-ups or nothing!
Caveats:
- I got the LD2410s variant because I think it’s the only one that actually operates at 3v3, but unfortunately it’s not quite supported by ESPhome yet so I’ve been having issues getting it to do anything with HA. Methinks stick with 5V versions for now and use a voltage regulator for the GPIO since the ESP32 is not 5v tolerant for GPIO inputs (or: use a Raspberry Pi which can handle anything).
- Do not use the brand new spanking ESP32C6 for that sweet sweet BLE and Zigbee functionality, because despite the arduino framework saying they support it in practice you’ll have to default to using the idf-esp framework, which isn’t a huge issue but does seem to throw me stranger errors.
Astro-Photography… quality of yoyr pictures is:
10% skill 90% how much you spend on equipment.
$12k for a pier-mounted SB mount? Sure, why not
I got into target shooting. I really enjoy it, so much so that I actually felt like joining some competitions. My brain goes to research mode and I find out how much just booking time to train on active movement courses costs.
Yeah, I’ll stick to plain ol lane shooting at the range, that’s expensive enough.
Yeah, $50 per session is on the low end
Hell, 50 barely gets me and the wife into the cheapest 25yd lane indoor range for an hour. There’s one in the area with a really nice action shooting area, but they want almost 200 for a couple hours, or their training classes on the course for about 400. Never mind the cost for ammo.
Wft. Where do you live for prices to be that crazy?
The plastic crack beckons…
Submit to the allure of Gee Dubs.
For a trifling a thing as a soul, you too can have a pile of shame in the corner of your basement.
I really need to buy a new lens for my camera. This meme explains it all for anyone who would like to ask me why I haven’t bought one yet.
Do you or is it just gas?
I have a 50mm lens that came with the camera itself. However, it’s not great for long distance shot. I need better and wider lens for that purpose.
Yeah, 50 is nice until you want to zoom. I’ve found a lot of use with a 70-300 I got cheapish a month or so after getting my first camera but the electronics are becoming less reliable so I’m looking at others in the same range now. Very easy to spend a lot of money but I’ve been having fun with some weird vintage lenses. Got a 500mm soviet one a couple of months ago and that’s surprisingly sharp, I think I spent around £30 on it.
Try having multiple expensive, time consuming hobbies. Gazes at unfinished minis and drawer filled with whips and sex toys
Looks at unfinished server, armor, and rpg terrain
Glances out across growing 3D print farm, Lego collection, and media server at project truck sitting in the driveway
I have no idea what you mean…
Quality sex accessories of any kind are stupid expensive
