• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    135
    ·
    5 days ago

    My two main hobbies are amassing wealth and being bad at finance so it probably gets me about 500€.

  • python@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    4 days ago

    You guys have stable hobbies…?
    If you count “starting new hobbies” as a hobby, then I could get like 4-5 hobbies out of it, around 200-250$ is a reasonable buy-in for a new one.

      • python@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        4 days ago

        Yes, but we’ve been having a few hot days around here and temperatures over 30°C really degrade the effectiveness of the medication. I bought a sewing machine on Saturday.

        • spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 days ago

          wh— ok that explains a lot about why I’m such a pansy about heat

          i wonder if stimulants are biochemically less effective in heat, or it’s just that our brains have to also deal with the sensory overload of melting to death thus eating into the medication’s mitigation of dopamine deficit… or both perhaps

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    35
    ·
    5 days ago

    I get 1 nice drone or 2 small ones.

    Lost a 500€ infrared drone 2 days ago in a sugar beet field because “I don’t need the GPS when flying near the street” and then I was too high to make out if it was a deer or a rabbit and the powerline in between disrupted the radio signal, so the drone went into failsave and stopped all movement, getting carried by the wind into the field and it fell in a way that the battery disconnected… thank you for reading… I’m sad now…

    • spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 days ago

      *hi-fives in serial hobbyist that also just got into bicycles*

      (except there’s been a heat advisory where I live for the past week so I can’t ride safely 😭)

      • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 days ago

        Ah! Same here… I just went 20 minutes really early in the morning 🤣

        The wind is good when you’re moving but as soon as you stop for a red light… you die…!

        • spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 days ago

          *gets run over bc i didn’t want to stop and lose all my speed and the airflow keeping me uncooked*

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    4 days ago

    2 years of yoga classes.

    Or

    All of the garden beds, fencing, and good soil I got for the garden.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    4 days ago

    If you already have a good computer, that much money could outfit an entire home music recording studio with decent gear, especially if you buy good used gear, which is easily available:

    A couple of good super-budget guitars from Harley Benton (a Strat clone and a Les Paul clone), for about $300 (new).

    A good Yamaha acoustic guitar, $100.

    A bass, $75.

    An interface, to get the music into the computer, $50.

    A basic MIDI controller, $30.

    A good electronic keyboard with weighted keys, $100.

    Microphone, $75.

    Headphones, $50.

    Electronic drum machine, $50, or use the pads on the MIDI controller, or voices on the keyboard.

    DAW - Reaper is free, and works great.

    That’s approximately what I spent on my studio, and everything works great, and sounds terrific…

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    5 days ago

    3 cheap synths but only half a more expensive one.

    Reasonable amount of average magic cards or just a few good ones.

    Half a graphics card.

    Some nice wood for woodworking, but not that much if decent quality.

    A flight ticket.

    3 festival tickets.

    0.5kg of ketamine.

    A lot of 3D printing filament.

    2 Warhammer figures.

    3 years of swimming pool subscription.

  • gnu@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago

    A mid range set of motorbike gear (dirt or road) or a very cheap registrable motorbike.

    Alternatively a number of interesting secondhand cameras/lenses, the number ranging from one to many depending on what exactly. I’ll admit I have actually spent near that much on two backs for my 1960s era Hasselblad so you don’t even necessarily get a whole camera…

      • gnu@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        5 days ago

        Yes, you can. I guess I should have been more specific because I was thinking of a complete kit when I wrote that (so including helmet, boots, gloves, etc) and you do need to set your sights a bit lower to make the budget work for that.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    4 days ago

    About like 10 of the must have flashlights or a few good customs. Or one fourth of some really extreme ones.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago

    A low-mid range PC. Maybe? Prices for components are fucking wack and I’m broke anyway, so I am not sure how far 1000 dollars would go rn.

    My current PC was ~$900, built in 2019 and was for low-entry VR, or high performance in flat space games for 1080p res and 144hz.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 days ago

      You can probably build a decent entry level gaming PC for that, that can do the latest games at 1440p.

      Ryzen 9600X, motherboard, 32GB RAM, and either a nVidia 5060 Ti or AMD 9060 RX with 16GB VRAM.

      Might have to reuse the case, storage and PSU, but at this point PC gamers are used to cannibalising their old machines to save money.

      Personally I’m hanging on with a 1060 6GB, and just using my PS5 for anything demanding. I thought the 1060 was dead the other day, but a quick autopsy and a can of air duster later and it was working fine again.