Sockenklaus

Don’t get me wrong: You’re 100 % entitled to your preferences and your definition of a hobby.

It was just unusual for me to equate a hobby with putting effort and perseverance into something. For me a hobby is something you simply do for your enjoyment in your free time on a more or less regular basis.

But hey: Definitions differ.🤷

Since when is “mastering it” part of the definition of a hobby?

I get that but why is traveling not a hobby?

Whenever possible phrase a question in a way that can be answered in one word.

That’s a good one! I would also add: When asked a question, determine whether this question can be properly answered in one word. If possible do it!

This is particularly directed at my wife 💋

How is this a technical issue? Seems like your hard drive is working fine?

Hmm maybe I had bad luck but I won’t dare to try again because the experience was so bad.

For me it’s toner for printers: I have a Brother laser printer at home that is not heavily used but at least once a week. I thought I’d save some money when I bought some cheap ass toner from Amazon that cost about half of what a original Brother toner costs and promised something like double the capacity.

Oh boy… I had the worst mildly infuriating two years of printing you could imagine: always disappointed of the printing quality but not THAT disappointed to replace this shitty but still at 2/3 capacity toner. I paid money for that toner so I’d squeeze every last page of shitty quality prints out of this fucking toner!

Last week I gave up and bought an original Brother toner and it’s a bliss. 🙄

Wow that’s a really amazing answer and you sound like a great prof!

Can you tell us a remarkable example where you learned that students today have different need than you had in the mid 2000s?

Is it some kind of generation gap or were you just an extraordinary student when you were studying?

Hey, of course I don’t know your financial capabilities and the height of your allowance but I encourage you to not give up on your intention to learn bass guitar.

I don’t know where you’re located and what possibilities you have to find used instruments but here in Germany you can find used bass guitars on a portal called “Kleinanzeigen” (the German equivalent to Craigslist I think) for very little money or for free. Just keep looking.

Also on our big instrument online shop “thomann.de” you find beginner bass guitars for less than 100 €. I am sure you find similarly cheap bass guitars where you live.

Long story short: Don’t give up learning an instrument and have the courage to ask people around you to support you.

Do you honestly not have a single dollar or euro to spend on an instrument? Instruments don’t have to be expensive and you can find beginner instruments that are exceptionally cheap.

What instrument would you like to learn and how much could you realistically afford to do so?

If you happen to be in Germany try Gustavo Gusto frozen pizza.

This is hilarious! What a beautiful, pointless discussion! I love it! 🤣

Lego only or are you open for alternative building bricks like CADA or bluebrixx?

I found that there are nice alternatives with attractive prices. But still an expensive hobby.

I’d love to use a Pi, but have yet to find one at anything close to MSRP, so I’m eyeing different netbooks that I can run Linux on.

I don’t know if Plex supports this feature but I’m running Jellyfin on a RPi 4B and Jellyfin support live transcoding for video formats that are not natively supported by the streaming client. Although RPi 4B supports hardware encoding of h264 1080p30, it performs badly.

So if you’re using live transcoding maybe opt for hardware with more oomph.