3D printing. Suddenly you are able to fix small plastic shit in your house which would otherwise mean throwing out the whole goddamn thing. Best feeling ever to repair and save stuff.
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Indoor gardening/hydroponics. Even in the smallest flat you can grow your own salad, peppers, radish, tomatoes, microgreens, etc.
Like a tiny stardew valley at home.
Hiking.
Getting up amongst the fells and mountains, mostly in isolation from noise and other people. Sure there's touristy spots where alot head to but there's still plenty of other, maybe slightly more difficult to hike places if you wanted pure zen.
Navigation is important, don't just go up with Google maps expecting her to tell you when the next left is. Get some research done, and head out. Don't overcomplicate things with buying loads of gear that youtubers "recommend", don't send it up a 3000ft hike either. A slight ascent, around a lake - start small, find your feet and grow from there.
The best thing I could ever have started for my mental health.
Cooking! It can be so rewarding, a fun way to impress or care for others, and you need to eat every day anyway so ample time to practice.
Almost all cooking can be done with practically no hardware beyond a sharp knife, a good sized cutting board, and a good pot or pan.
There's so many patterns and combinations and different takes on the same ingredients that you can learn. The basics get you 80% of the way there
Crochet
Pros
- Documented mental health benefits
- Cheap to start, can learn from online tutorials
- Easier than knitting
- Make cool toys, clothes, home accessories, whatever you want
- Get to smush yarn into your face on a regular basis
Cons
- Fibre crafts gateway drug
I love the smushing! Find it so hard to learn though
Sounds like you have the most important part of the hobby down already, at least!
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Biking.
Moving under your own power has so many benefits:
- It's fun
- It's cheap (or can be, to be fair)
- It's good for your health
- It's good for the planet
It's fun
My knees disagree but each to their own ;)
I cringe watching someone struggling to turn the pedals when they are riding a multi geared bike.
Cycling is good for the knees, if you're not staining to turn the pedals. That's why gearing exists.
Use the gears to make the pedaling easier.
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Thinking of learning sign language....
I only know the tiniest bit (learned some as a kid, I don't remember why) but even if it never comes in useful I can confirm it's a great party act.
Cooking is a very nice, relaxing hobby and you also get to eat some good food!
Itβs also very useful and an easy way to impress people.
Wood working. Can fix things and build things. Itβs very rewarding. Can find second hand tools and slowly build your collection and upgrade them as you develop and hone your skills until your wife surprises you at home with your closest friends and family and they proceed to tell you that you have a problem and have to decide between investing time and energy into a living family or your woodworking hobby.
Knot tying is a handy skill and easy to acquire. All you need is a short length of rope and watch a few videos. There may be thousands of knots you can learn, but most people should take the trouble to learn a few tried and true knots. Maybe you want to move a mattress on the roof of your car. Maybe you want to tie a pen to a clipboard. Maybe you want to tie back the legs when roasting a turkey. Maybe you need an impromptu collar & leash for a stray dog. Maybe you have to move a huge bundle of brush you've cut. Maybe you want to tie neat looking stopper knots on your hoodie's drawstring. Knowing how to tie a few different knots will give you options when you're trying to get stuff done.
And then it's just a short hop from that to making pretty stuff for your house with macrame!
animatedknots.com is a great resource. Iβd recommend learning the bowline knot first. Also get a one foot piece of nice rope from the hardware store and melt the ends to practice.
Baking - fresh warm bread is so good!
Sewing - it's nice to add pockets to things π
Sewing is useful and satisfying. I'd like to say it's also easy but I have never figured it out myself (which doesn't say much, anything that involves using my hands is... questionable)
Some form of metal working, and specifically machining. I really enjoy machining, and I've been able to make some genuinely useful things. The tools are actually really quiet and stateful, unlike woodworking power tools which SCREAM at you like horrible demons. Seeing people look at their first top, or pen, or miniature cannon is great. Plus, things made in metal are at least slightly shiny.
For example, you could make dumbbell handles and plates like this: a photo of dumbbell handles and weight plates
Or a metal yarn winder like this: a photo of an all-metal yarn winder
The major downside is that it's not cheap (not as expensive as boats, possibly more expensive than photography), and it requires at least a bit of space that you wouldn't mind getting dirty. Luckily, I feel like makerspaces are starting to have more and more metalworking equipment.
- making bread
- brewing beer (or making wine or cider, as one prefers)
- repair sewing
I suspect I'd feel the same about welding or smithing, but I haven't tried those (yet).
At work, I have a reputation for being the guy who never shuts up about trying to get new people into scuba diving. If there are 2 or more divers at the lunch table I honestly feel a little bad for everybody else. The cost of getting trained and renting or buying all your gear can scare people away, but I would at least strongly recommend that anybody on an island vacation or cruise at least try a "discover Scuba" class. You'll learn everything you need to know to not die by watching a quick video, and working in a pool, then you get to go have an amazing dive in the ocean with an instructor.
@QuietStorm Fishing: it gets you outside, and helps you learn about the natural world as a participant, not just an observer. You don't need to spend a lot to get started and its often best if you go with a friend. I always practice catch-and-release and the experience is a morning or evening of peace.
Learning a new language. You learn a bit about how languages work, understand other cultures a bit better, usually learn new vocabulary for your native language, understand the relationship between different languages, learn the roots of loan words and generally helps your brain stay healthy, even by only studying the basics.
what lauguage would you recommend for people who only know english?
Bit of an off-the-wall suggestion but I was having real trouble learning other languages mostly due to all the cases (and sometimes genders). So I started learning Esperanto, which admittedly is not the most practical language to know BUT it really helped me understand languages more in general. It's very simple to learn and easy for an English-speaker to pronounce, as well as having lots of recognisable words (the Esperanto for "yes" is "jes", which is pronounced "yes" lol)
Now that I've gone back to learning German I'm feeling much more confident about learning in general just because I got some of the grammar concepts from a much easier language. Might be worth a look if you've struggled before.
Not OP, but I've asked myself this as well. I think it depends on where you live and what you want out of your language learning experience. If your goal is to learn something more useful in everyday life and you live in the southern US, Spanish is a great option. If you're from Canada, French is probably the most useful. German and Mandarin are useful in the business world, but the latter is significantly harder to learn. If you're not worried about maximizing the utility of what you learn, Norwegian is considered one of the easiest languages for English speakers, and let's be real, Norway is awesome.
It's more important that you stick with whatever you choose though. That's the part I've struggled with.
Spanish: it's the most return per effort.
For me it's selfhosting/programming. I don't even work in IT. It's just such a great hobby that actually makes your life more productive.
ive been wanting to get into game dev but it seems like alot of work and i suck at everything, also im limted with software and im not even sure what game engine or thing to use, if that makes sense. do you hav eany advice or something you want to share?
I'm a hobbyist game dev also. Main advice would be that yes it is a lot of work and you may suck at everything, but the only way to get any better is to get started.
Pick an engine, it really doesn't matter which for the most part (I used to use Unity and recently switched to Godot, the way people evangelise the latter can be a bit offputting but as an objective user of both I can say they've got pros and cons like anything else). The exception being if you want to make a very specific kind of game like visual novels for example, then you'd be best served learning Ren'Py since that's what the engine is for.
Other than that, get something installed and hunt down some tutorials for it. Doesn't matter if they're irrelevant to what you hope you'll one day make, you're just trying to learn the basics here. Take what you learn in tutorials, and modify it in some way, that helps things sink in better and gives you more understanding about what your code (or your blender animation, or whatever) is actually doing and how it works.
TLDR: Just get stuck in!
p.s. there's a few general "gamedev" communities on here so far but I think the most active one is !gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone (direct link). Check out the pinned post in there with links to neighbours like engine-specific communities etc. Someone is also organising a Fediverse game jam for next month so that could be a good way to join a team and get started doing small tasks on a game that you wouldn't be able to make yourself yet.
Python with PyGame can be quite a good start. And if you're just trying to build something for fun maybe use free assets from the internet.
I can only assume you got downvoted for this because people think you're advocating stealing assets. So for anyone else reading this, there are actually whole websites devoted to providing free assets for use in games.
Maybe it's a bug, but I don't see any downvotes on my side (from kBin). Didn't thought it was needed to specify that indeed, you should only use assets that are listed as free.
I'm treating votes as rough indicators at best anyway as they never seem to be the same depending where you're looking at a post from. #FederatedWorldProblems
I reccomend trying out GB studio. It makes gameboy games and comes as one binary file. Not too crazy to learn. I liked the music player thing.
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