Audio stuff is really a fun Hobby for me although I have not bought anything in the last year, but I’m waiting for the 300$ IEM market to grow, there is no need for me to consider going back to check stuff out right now

I am happy with the split Ortho keyboard I made and I feel it’s at a good state where it doesn’t need to be touched

I finished my Small Form Factor PC

I got one single good pen I like, a r0tring, and it’s the only pen I use

I’m waiting to find people in my life to try the board game I’m creating

My god, am I, running out of things to do in the things I like. Or is it just that my passion is just building Tech stuff

I make music in my off time, I find it very cathartic. Not much I’d think most people would like, definitely not something I would expect to make me a single cent, but it’s enough that I enjoy it and feel better while doing it.

Programming and reading.

Also collecting and occasionally smoking cigars.

Meditation, chili Peppers, Linux, family

I practice fencing, I’m a fencer. Now I’m not the best fencer around but I’m at competitive tournaments several times a year.

Biggest tournament I participate in is the Arnold Classic. It’s a huge sports festival hosted by Arnold Swarzenegger, while it’s primarily a weightlifting and bodybuilding event they have just about every sport you can imagine and some you probably haven’t. Arnold is there too, I’ve seen him almost every year. Hell of an event, I like seeing the other sports almost as much as I enjoy fencing in it.

And I’ve been trying to learn to play the bagpipes lately.

It’s actually not as complicated as you might imagine. Now, I’ve never played a musical instrument before but this actually seems like something I could do with lots of practice. I just think it’s neat, I’d like to be able to play something with some degree of proficiency. Like, other instruments are more complicated - there are only 9 holes, it plays in one octave, and there’s no special blowing technique to it. Compare that to a trumpet, a flute, a saxophone. Bagpipes, quite simple in comparison.

It’s a work in progress, I can play a few little tunes.

I’m super into selfhosting services! Rather than use Google Drive and MS Word for things, I run instances of similar open-source software on my home server. That way, I have terabytes of cloud storage accessible from anywhere, and can edit documents via any web browser with far less reliance on tech monopolies. As well as that, all my data is stored on my own hardware, so I’m in full control and giant companies can’t sift through it.

Shoutouts to !selfhosted@lemmy.world and !selfhost@lemmy.ml (and probably others I haven’t come across yet).

For anyone that’s interested: It’s not difficult to set up and you can use any old laptop you have lying around to host services.