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| DiTBho:
--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on February 12, 2021, 07:58:13 am ---Just do what you do. Enjoy and don't be [..] pedantic. --- End quote --- I agree with "do what you do and enjoy it". It works good! What doesn't work is when you share what you do, and some dude finds reasonable to insult you as person and your work simply because can't understand what "done just for fun" | "done to learn learn something new" means in your project introduction (readme.txt | readme.md). |
| AntiProtonBoy:
--- Quote from: DiTBho on February 12, 2021, 10:27:07 am ---What doesn't work is when you share what you do, and some dude finds reasonable to insult you as person and your work simply because can't understand what "done just for fun" | "done to learn learn something new" means in your project introduction (readme.txt | readme.md). --- End quote --- If some dude goes out of their way to belittle you and scoff at what you do, then clearly that person is at a disadvantage. His world is smaller than yours and he feels small. These people are a waste of time; and so you simply move on. I mean you could engage with them, and be pedantic about what you do as a hobby - but why? Every minute you waste engaging with people like that could be better spent on more constructive things in your life. |
| nali:
I can only echo what others have said above. It's a shame that the mere concept of a hobby, whatever it is, is seen to many as "nerdy" or "man in a shed" type activities. TV and social media seem to be the only accepted activities now :=\ It's a little bit ironic that my wife hates me spending time in my lab office, but she loves TV programmes like The Repair Shop which is mandatory viewing. Nor does it stop her bringing a steady stream of stuff home from her school for me to fix. |
| hans:
I do electronics as a hobby and job because there is always something new to discover (for me). That doesn't mean it always works first try.. but I really like learning, mastering and understanding new things. For that I solo many things that are out available online, just for the sake of it. Similarly, the video games I tend to play are creative or skill based in nature. E.g. Factorio, Minecraft, flight simulators etc. If instead I just want a shot of dopamine I will just watch TV, scroll social media and play linear video games. Those tasks are something you can always complete. For some tasks you don't even need to be awake to do them. :=\ Likewise, if I want to do a project quickly with a friend or family member, I will use an Arduino or ESP32 instead to get fast results and a low entrance to the field of electronics. |
| penfold:
So many hobbies boil seem to boil down to the same principals, I don't think electronics/computing/programming etc are any exception, the desire to solve problems, use tools, improve tools and methods... the only difference in my opinion between is that a "good electronics project"'s quality can be objectively measured (to an extent) whereas art/music/creative stuff follows more flexible rules, but its still that process of seeing, judging and improving I normally tell non-engineer types that "the difference them and an engineer is that the engineer only NEEDs the solve one sudoku before realising that completing the book is just a waste of time that would be better spent writing the code to solve ALL sudokus, and that just so happens to me what I find more fun" |
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