Ask Lemmy

Playing bass guitar!

Picked it up in May after not playing anything since tuba about 3 decades ago. Getting used to fingering notes across strings and frets took forever but I'm making huge strides now. Even played with a few friends at a smalll gathering last weekend.

Replaced my strings for the first time today and did the setup adjustments. Doing the setup myself was a good choice as I'm getting a lot more familiar with how the thing works by messing around with it.

Gazing longingly upon the new chest freezer and meal preping.

Also playing Heaven's Vault.

Got an old computer that a friend gave me up and running. It's much better than the crappy one I was using, so I handed that one off to my Dad.

This will let me get back to a couple of personal projects I was struggling to complete on the old computer.

Also indulging in political news again, which I had to swear off for a couple of years for my mental health.

I've been developing a bash application at work because I was bored, and then it got blessed as a good use of time. I've been having a blast with making it, and can't wait to declare that it's shippable.

I crawled back into the factorio hole, and this time decided to make an early-game megabase for funsies. I maxxed out an offshore water pump with 200 boilers and 400 steam engines, leaving room for steam storage tanks.

I was going to learn blender so I could make a 3d printed globe, but I crawled back into the factorio hole

I'm considering getting an embroidery machine, been playing around with digitalising. And a bit of web development for funsies.

Thermal bath and my husband ;)

I am falling headfirst into home labbing.

I'm also sorta getting into solar and water conservation stuff!

Reading instead of just doing audio books. I do both now but I read the book first and if I like it then I listen to it while I bike

Also, started biking.

And very recently someone gave me a week long access key to WoW forever. I played the original before any expansions and loved it back then, but whenever I checked out new expansions it was just too different. WoW Forever is like classic but with a little new stuff and QoL, plus with its recent release its populated and feels like it did when I first played.

Barbecue. I got a lightly used offset smoker/ grill that wasn't working right. The install on the firebox was wrong and it took all of fifteen minutes to fix. The pit works great now.

I've made baby back ribs and chicken tenderloins on it a couple of times now. It takes five or six hours to do the ribs but it's a good reason to be outside since I have to tend the fire, plus it gives me time to read.

The chicken to a while to figure out how to do properly but the ribs have been amazing every time. I use a dry rub or salt, pepper, and garlic. They're great with barbecue sauce, but they don't need it.

I've been watching Star Trek DS9 for the first time. Half way into Season 5.

Wow forever

I have been fucking around with making a multiplayer mod for my friends and I on Caves of Qud. Its going really well, I just have to work out a few more bugs and its ready to go. I dont think I'm going to go around the entire game and test it before I get my friends in on it. But its working for the most part right now and I just got movement to be slightly less ass (it will always be ass in Qud with multiple players)

Performing much-needed maintenance on my car. I love working on cars but I've been in a real funk the last few months and have now accrued a long list of things to fix.

Lotta video games. Still playing Gears E Day, and now Ocarina as well, and soon to be GTA.

Playing Space Station 14, i had no idea it existed and now I'm addicted.

I write scripts that scrape the internet for porn for the inevitable end of internet porn.

I'm collecting it for two possible solutions.

1. in the event that the world economy crashes and we see a world economic regression on the scale of decades if not centuries, I will sling my collected sin to locals in lieu of tradable goods and services.
2. if the world remains stable enough to maintain internet access, I am also writing software based on torrents that will sync subscribed content from client to client. it won't be publicly available and will index across the tor network and sync (encrypted) over public or VPN networks. by becoming a part of the ring, you can publish your own content and allow it to be subscribed.

I've been making walking sticks. Giving them away to my friends and family. I also recently bought 2 bows, one recurve, one long bow.

Picked up my old box of floppy disks and an USB floppy drive, and have been doing some archeology. I already found one of my ancient assembly files, dated 1997.

I recently got back into Linux, and installed CachyOS on an old Chromebook that wasn't getting much use, breathing new life into it. Been having a lot of fun learning Linux and tweaking my UI customizations!

Preparing to run a puzzle hunt this weekend: https://g8.glyph.wtf/ (if you join, find me and let me know and say hi!)

Except I've not really been doing enough of that due to being away on holiday (in Australia) and at a wedding.

Signed up to a challenge called GRIT100 where you do 100 miles of activity in November. I hurt my back a little while ago and it really put a dent in my fitness routine but it's been really fun to have a challenge I can still get stuck into, have fun and feel like I've still achieved something.

Baulder's Gate 3 - first play thru and its only taken me since August to get to Act 3, that is like a gaming speed run for me now a days.

Ripping out and redoing all my flower gardens. Renewed soil, native seeds that I know work for my location, separated bulbs, etc. Great therapy for me.

Ableton. It is fun to fuck around and connect all sorts of things.

And I get to a point where I can generate some working drums to emulate a jamming session with my friends. So that's cool to get some ideas going.

I've never replaced suspension before and I recently replaced the front and rear shocks and springs on my Hilux. It took me hours by myself but I loved and sweated every minute of it. Very satisfying.

Ocarina of Time remake

I've been trying to perfect making a Boston Cream Pie. Took a break recently after the entire household was sick of eating pastry cream with vanilla cake trifles after one too many failed attempts. Can't quite get the pastry cream thick enough to stand on its own yet. But it's been fun trying!

My kid and I have been working on Pokopia together as well! I love passing the sticks back and forth as we work through the storyline.

DDR, found some song packs with my favorite artists

Been studying Japanese in my spare time, and I'm close to finishing my first full JRPG: Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku.

Really fun game, it's a licensed anime spinoff developed by Namco Tales Studio that runs on the Tales of Hearts engine. So it's basically just a full Tales game starring the cast of Keroro Gunsou, and I'd even say this weird spinoff might be one of the best in the series. But because it's based on a shounen anime, it's got full Furigana for younger readers and the silly lighthearted plot is a lot easier to follow along with as a learner. It's the perfect My First JRPG.

Just finished the penultimate dungeon, so I'm on track to wrap this up before I take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N3 next month. Great study material, I've learned a lot going through this.

Had some board games arrive this week and got in several plays with my teens. Specifically Herbcraft, Pyramido and Targi have been especially fun.

The November Nethack Tournament

https://tnnt.org/

🎶It's the most wonderful time of the year! 🎵