My hobby is buying materials for projects and then not doing the projects.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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Ah, a fine hobby indeed! I have so many arduinos, pis, and various modules strewn about with little to show for it.
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"Turn your hobby into a business!", they said. "It'll be fun!", they said.
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Piracy saves money if you're already paying for subscriptions. Self hosting adds another way to save money.
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Pssh, only if you aren't turning all your hobbies into side-hustles.
What are you afraid of, besides completely burning out and probably still losing money anyway?
I got into self hosting a while back
EOL enterprise equipment can be very thrifty. But if you ever need something specialty that isn't available in the second hand market, good luck.
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That's how expensive skydiving hobby is. Unless you're an instructor. Then you get paid to skydive.
Same with motorcycling, unless you get paid $13/hr to be an MSF instructor.
Motorcycling is cheaper than driving tho? I mean if you're driving like a $40,000 bike and then still paying for a car, sure.
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Warhammer 40k has entered the chat.
I live in Canada, do you know how much the standard video game costs here now? Like $90.
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I barely spent any money on my hobbies this year. I'm not some kind of sucker!
I merely spent thousands of dollars on materials and tools to build the supporting infrastructure for them!
I also have some very expensive computer parts waiting to be assembled. But they aren't for any hobby of mine! They're for the kid so we can play stuff without him using a computer twice as old as he is. 😉
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Cries in synthesizers.
At least there are a bunch of great budget options these days. Still not cheap though.
I love synthesizers. Found my salvation in Bitwig Studio and now I don't even eye up VSTs. (I'll await my downvotes!)
I have not tried Bitwig yet. Reaper is my jam.
IMHO Bitwig is a modular synthesis and sound design environment that also contains a full DAW. There's possibly nothing else quite like it around - I'm not certain, but I've looked and not found anything. Notes are events and can be processed or generated in all manner of crazy ways... or just played. Audio can be piped all over the place and processed almost however you want. I think of the stock devices like basic building blocks, like Lego or Minecraft. Once you understand the pattern you can build anything. There are so many ways to work in Bitwig! It's almost like Ableton but equally it's almost an unlimited modular synthesizer. It's very playable too, a real digital instrument. I could probably spend the rest of my life with it and not run out of things to try. It steers away from trying to be a virtual instrument rack like Reason with pretend jack leads, and seems to me to be both incredibly powerful and still very intuitive. It's the best music making software I've come across in 35 years of using music software!
Hmm. I'll have to check it out. Not sure I'm willing to give up my current workflow.
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Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien in A Secret Vice
It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!
That's why I won't start painting 40K minis, even if I'd love to. I wouldn't even want to play. Besides, I wouldn't have anyone to play with, anyway.
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My hobby are maths and programming, both fairly cheap. Other than the cost of getting a computer of course (and maybe some maths textbooks if you feel the need)
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Craft beer for me.
I play Star Citizen. My wife has no idea the cost. I have no regrets.
Do Thinkpads count?
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