>get into the maker hobby
>my wife tells me to stop buying things
I'm just going to keep buying until there is nothing left you have no idea. And you thought that $200 3d printer was bad.
>get into the maker hobby. >my wife tells me to stop buying things
what's your real goal?
there's that gug who put a laser on his and can carve stone with it.
https://youtube.com/shorts/yl_1QnQAoXw?feature=share
Maker goals:
-Homebuilt Spectrometer
-Homebuilt Stern Gerlach Apparatus
-Homebuilt Radiotelescope
Now post real goals. What do you produce that improves your life by saving or making money and/or reducing work. Non-productive hobbies are moronic because rewarding productive hobbies exist, even better if chosen to build complementary useful skills (welding, machining, mechanics, electronics, plumbing and simple construction produce workshops and more).
>min/maxing your personal time
your personal time
Is gloriously effective and why I affordably wallow in the classic motorbikes I enjoy while maintaining, repairing and upgrading nearly everything I own. The shops and otherwise expensive equipment I obtain buying used then DIYing not only save money but I gain complete understanding of my systems thus very rarely needing outside assistance (usually by my bros who I help in glorious shop construction and outfitting, vehicle building and equipment hunting/modification).
When you do this you learn new things quickly and easily because you understand systems of systems. You gain control and immediate ability to affordably solve problems which are disruptive to most people. You gain complementary job skills if you wish and can do those jobs for yourself.
DIY is fun because technology and rising to challenge and empowering yourself is fun. Many people specialize which is fine but growing laterally offers a robust life. You're prepared for economic adversity (DIY helped me pay off my property early so I could buy cheap, renovate cheap and if shit hits fan all I owe is property tax), natural disasters (I find them fun, like military exercises, and take notes each time because most prep is in your head), and to exploit opportunities others cannot like assembling otherwise expensive vehicles from donor wrecks or integrating industrial equipment into your shop because you know RPC and VFD are easy to deal with and why three phase is superior for machine tools.
What's hard for others becomes easy for you. When I wanted to learn flashing ECUs for LS series GM engines it was very low effort because I was already a mechanic, techie and computer nerd. It was nothing to build the simple bench harness, nothing to source connectors and ECUs from self-service salvage, and easy to learn what parameters to change.
Anyone can do this. All you homosexuals can choose this fun power.
Soon you'll die and all the information and possessions you've amassed will go back out
What a cowardly reason to not want to do anything. Soon you'll die too, and nothing you learned will stay with you unless you have enough knowledge to pass it along. Your material items and fruits off your work might outlast you, but the knowledge you can pass on can outlive you for lifetimes. That's the only truth. I'll die, other anon will die, and you will too. If your a know-nothing quitter, or if you know the world and don't share your power, then when you pass, it'll be just the same as when a flower dies - nothing gained, nothing learned, but some compost for the soil. Go turn wrenches, go frick some jobs up, go fix some others, and get busy living or get busy dying.
Why do anything ever anon, we're all just gonna die anyway?
Ask me how I know you're a useless incel, go on - guess.
>When you do this you learn new things quickly and easily because you understand systems of systems. You gain control and immediate ability to affordably solve problems which are disruptive to most people.
It's not that normies can't do it. Or aren't aware that they can build the skills and equipment needed to do the job. They just value things that you don't like socializing or being outside.
And that's... Fine. Normal even. Pretending like you're on some enlightened path that puts you in a higher class because your hobby is self-guided learning is extremely cringe and makes you an insufferable intellectual butthole. It's fine to be on the spectrum. Understand that it comes with its own limitations and gather from that some empathy and humility.
Instead of replying with a long winded rebuttal to someone who won't read it or care, ask yourself what legacy you want to leave and how your current path will help or hinder that journey. Because the other anon is right. You can't take this knowledge with you when you go so how will you start to apply it outside your hermit kingdom.
what are you guys talking about?
>Pretending like you're on some enlightened path that puts you in a higher class because your hobby is self-guided learning is extremely cringe and makes you an insufferable intellectual butthole.
True, especially since the notion that the activity *must* be "productive" to be of any value is antithetical to the very meaning of the word "hobby".
What he's really saying is that no one should have hobbies at all, and instead should find pleasure and relaxation in doing your own chores, repairs, maintenence, etc. and from saving money and learning skills.
That's totally possible and lots of DIYers do it, but it's not an either/or proposition and people can do that and also have an actual hobby that doesn't have to be "productive" or educational.
They can also not have hobbies and don't need to apologize for it or pretend that performing chores and other labor that needs doing one way or another is a "hobby".
You sound like a nagging wife who only wants others to be interested in their own autistic hobbies.
As long as OP is having fun and building up skills who are you to judge him about wasting time and effort you joyless Black personhomosexual
Just buy things when you find them for a good price, craigslist, restore, goodwill etc. That way, sure you're still buying stuff, but in the future you can likely sell it for more than you paid. Tools maintain their value pretty well unless you break them
a fellow turd world country poster?
200USD is just a PC game or two
>my wife tells me
Show your wife the blueprints for a sex robot. Tell her "It's either this or the other stuff."