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[–] 42 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Literally anything with tech, new hardware, new laptop, bigger VPS or another Raspberry Pi. My bedroom is starting to look like some back-alley tech store from a dystopian movie.

Oh and, to top it all off, Star Citizen.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    At least you haven't got the Linux austism in which you and no other IRL person talks about

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    If you're good at science but not good at math, you still can't do it for a living.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How can you be good at science if you're not good at math. Seriously asking a question here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Is is possible to be genuinely very good at designing all kinds of experiments and executing them wothout having any interest/significant capabilities in solving the statistical work involved. I think you see this a lot in medical science. Luckily science is almost always performed in teams where everyone has their own bot of expertise.

    Also, there are the more qualitative (instead of quantitative) sciences like anthropology where you simply don’t need the strong math.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Just spent $890 on new golf clubs.

    In my defence it was a birthday present to myself, but I haven't even played in 3 years and I was shit when I did. Just a few days watching golf shit on YouTube and here we are...

    Hobbies are my smashed avo.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Nothing wrong with having a hobby of watching golf videos and having the option to go golfing if you want to. There’s worse hobbies out there. Like doing meth or sculpting dragon dildos

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    I used to rock climb a lot but sustained a couple very bad injuries, resulting in all of my muscle going as I couldn't climb for 18 months. Now it's depressing struggling on what used to he warm ups.

    I'm hoping golf gets me back outside more frequently and helps with the long recovery.

    If not, whoops... But I will take this excuse to feel less guilty spending money on hobby lol

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    [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Collecting hobbies. Idk. I just pick up whatever fancies me at the time. I realize this is not possible for a lot of people, and I’m sad about that, but it’s really the only thing that keeps me going.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    I spend 1000€ on a stock and it went to zero.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Aquarium keeping.

    Congratulations on your $3000 salt toilet.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    People tend to think of flightsimming and trainsimming as expensive, since compared to other games they kind of are, but I look at Warhammer, and even model trains and feel considerably less bad.

    That said model trains are cool, but I’d only want to do it as part of a club where I can split the cost with other people.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    OMG, my kids have this type of autism!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What's is the original is this meme?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    i spent 2500€ on a guitar and it’s not even made in america, it’s a made in mexico fender

    and i love it

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Warhammer 40k. I'm also a semi accomplished electrical engineer and currently working on a PhD in data science/machine learning, so at least I got the "good at math and science" variety to support my "expensive hobby" variety

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Reading. You should try it too. You can literally get unlimited supplies for free from the local library.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    This même it hard when you love 3d print

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Ok, you see Planar Magnetics are very different from Dynamic Drivers, where as in your DD's (like we call them) we have a membrane moving from electri....

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  • My hobby is being normal, it's quite difficult

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    These days the most expensive hobby of mine is just keeping the fucking lights on. Electricity prices are insane now.

    Aside from that though, I really like cooking and experimenting with recipes and flavour profiles, and regularly buy ingredients and fresh vegetables to be able to indulge this.

    I go in and out of being deeply obsessed with painting too, so art supplies are taking up the rest of my budget lately.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Laser holography, it costs so fucking much :( :( :(

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