Slowly rediscovering my fascination for radio communications. Meshtastic and Meshcore are running, dusted off an old analog scanner that I kept from my cb radio days in '97, and a RTL-SDR is on it’s way. Good times :)
Hear, hear. I’ve got the HF bug and deliver a specific feeling of joy when I QSO the farthest I can at a given power and antenna configuration.
I got licensed in my 30s after wanting to when I was a kid. My farthest contact is 15000km from the US to Australia running 20W into a dipole hanging from a tree.
Wild. Was that SSB or CW? From some time I spent in New Mexico a couple of years ago I managed to hit Malaysia on 100W SSB. I was floating!
This was SSB on 20 meters. My next farthest contacts are more like 5000 miles down to Chile and Argentina, same 20W G90 and dipole. I am completely lacking Asia and Africa though
I’m looking forward to getting my raspberry pi set up so I can plug in the SDR and play around with python libraries.
I also gavea DMR that I haven’t even begun to explore yet, but I thought it would be good to have in case of emergencies.
So many projects on the to-do list. Now if only I can find time for all of them…
My younger self loved computers and programming and any love I had for that died after 5 years on the job.
I’m 15 years on the job now. 😭
“Do what you love for a career and you’ll never work”
“I hate my hobbies and want to patch potholes instead.”
Younger me took a stance. I needed to pursue my passions of Art and Videogames. Fast forward 15 years and now I’m an Art Lead for games at a company that is heavily invested in AI and doesn’t seem to know what the fuck they’re doing ATM. If I’m laid off, I doubt I’ll be able to land another job despite a good resume and playing games remind me of work.
I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t want anything to do with AI, so I imagine my current job will be my last job in the industry, too. I hope you can ride out the bubble at your current place!
Do what you love, they said, and you’ll never do a day of work!
However, even though I do still do tech stuff around the house, it just doesn’t have that same feeling.
I’ve held on to mine for 30. Maybe you’re just at the wrong job :)
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So many of the usual, like many people I’m sure: drawing, writing, making bad websites, playing video games…
But also just laying on the ground and listening to the birds chirping. Staring at nothing and just letting my mind wander, for no purpose at all.
This is why I encourage people to spend time around children if they don’t have kids. Seeing the world through a child’s eye again is very grounding.
Also dogs and cats
Probably cows
Definitely donkeys
Maybe sheep if they’re cool and not jerks?
So… back to stamp collecting?
Bank to formula
Hugging my stuffed animals <3
Throwing crabapples in the road to watch cars run over them? I’m not sure it’s a good idea
If you can rope another adult friend into it, you can just both take it in turns to run over crabapples and then there’s no worries.
My younger self was a fool. STEM, power and dominance should have been my only interests.
Relevant username.
Idk what you want, I went the idealist, softie, be a game dev route, suffering for it. Would have been better off ifnI was like evil.
With more money, and more new accessible tech and access to information, it’s great!
You ain’t lying. I recently started to look at trees the way I used to. Like I got so many good climbing trees by my job. I might mess around and get caught hanging out in them one of these days.
This happened to me when I got glasses lol. It was like all the trees suddenly got the HD upgrade.
Omg yeah you just unlocked an ancient memory. It was like, you can see the individual leaves?? its so beautiful and dynamic, especially on a windy day
I somehow passed the 3rd grade eye exam, so I didn’t get glasses until I was around 18. I distinctly remember being flabbergasted by the trees sprinkled around the parking lot. Also road signs!
Board games and little plastic army men.
100%. Painting miniatures half an hour a day keeps my head quiet.
I am still doing the same things as I did as a child. Maybe less outdoor stuff but I blame that on lack of friends :(
You mean sleeping? That never stopped being interesting to me.
Yes when my kids got to the age of playing at parks, I rediscovered swings & monkey bars & gymnastics & acrobatics & what a therapeutic rediscovery it has been.
