The lighter side of ADHD
I had plans this weekend, I started my laundry then youtube put me in the woodworking rabbit hole. Then I got sad because I remembered that probably won't ever have the means to own a workshop and watch this shit is pointless. Then I started thinking about how I'm busting my ass at work just to tread water. Then i started drinking and watching cartoons. Laundry did not get finished.
It was Apothecary Diaries tyvm
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Ah fuck it WAS CAT VIDEOS THEY GOT ME AGAIN
Seventh hobby? Amateurs, it's almost May...
It's 3:42, thank you very much.
Exept the staying up late, that is my sunday.
I wish i could clean and do all over my order, but i know my room mates will mess up my order especially in the kitchen in 2 days
This reminds me, I need to call my doctor to see about getting a diagnosis.
Guess it won't get done
"I'm going to have an early night" and other lies you can tell yourself
Yeah thats what you say to youreelf at 5 am when the birds are chirping and the sun is coming out. "Its fine ill just sleep for a couple hours and get up, and then I'll get an early night tonight to make up for it".
Reading this comment at 5 AM and having the exact same thought train haha
ive got ocd and ADHD so I can't actually start the new hobby until the old one is finished. my current hobby is a homelab Thats running over 60 services that keep breaking. god save my soul
I wish my OCD affected me actually finishing things
if it makes you feel any better I have not been able to have a new project in 4 years even though Ive got plenty of ideas. I actually tried working on a FOSS car stereo but I couldn't Focus because of my damn homelab telling me I need to finish it first.
May I interest you in the rabbit hole that is NixOS? Gotta get that perfect reproducible Infrastructure As Code-Config!
I would but I'm too deep in with Rocky to switch at this point. SELinux is a major part of my setup
What's your elevator pitch for homelab?
The best part of having a homelab/home server is the reproducible dopamine hits. First you'll get some dopamine just getting the thing up and running, but then each service I decide to tackle and implement gives me a whole new hit of dopamine. Most services you can get up in a day or two of tinkering/learning even as a system noob like me. On top of that, if you don't manage to get it working, it's pretty easy to scrap the attempt and try something easier.
Then you also get dopamine hits whenever something breaks and you manage to fix it. 10/10 would recommend.
Awesome! Yeah I've tinkered with some server stuff and it's definitely fun when it works haha
If you like being in control of your data, like tinkering with new/emerging tech or industry standard tech, want to break free from Google/Apple/Meta/etc, or if you want to have a hobby similar to working on your car without getting your hands dirty and physically destroying your body, homelabbing may be for you. You can really do whatever you want with it. Make an android app repo, create a DNS server, or NTP time sync server, you can host your own videos with PeerTube, have your own private email server, host a Mastodon or Lemmy instance, or a Bluesky personal data server, you can host your own local LLM or have a Google Photos-like AI photo library with Immich. You can use Frigate to get AI powered security cameras. Theoretically, you could even make your homelab your main PC and just carry around a lapdock for your phone to remote into it. Theres really no limit to what you can do other than your willingness to put in the time and effort, and deal with frustrating scenarios when they come up. I'd rate it 9/10 on the worth it scale, just wish some things could be more streamlined.
Ok great! I guess I didn't know the definition was so broad, I'm definitely already toying with Plex, and I had plans for setting up a RAID and a backup schedule so I can safely run immich. A matrix server was on my list too.
Thanks for the other ideas!
Of course! And, if you can deal with the faults people find in it, I recommend Jellyfin over Plex. Its your homelab, not plex's. You shouldnt have to pay to use your own hardware. :P
Yeah I've looked into jellyfin, it just isn't as convenient yet.
If that improves, or if Plex gets nuked, I'll make the switch 🤷♂️
I prefer open source where I can 👍
i wish i could get my home lab efforts (re)started. the memory of corrupted sd cards and pi hole config mistakes is debilitating...
not to mention financial anxiety about possibly needing replacement components regularly....
I started on an old optiplex I got off eBay for $150, and it ran great for 4 years until I was dusting it out and accidentally snapped off a capacitor from the mobo. The only concerns Ive really had are hard drive failures and I keep a backup so its not too bad. most of my problems are user error and software. Have you used/are you using docker? it makes a lot of the mistakes hurt less because you can just delete the docker volume for the service and start fresh if u screw up.
thanks for the eBay recommendation. unfortunately my financial anxiety is much much much more easily triggered than that. I'm working in myself for now.
i do plan to start using docker if i ever get started on projects again.
This feels like "rich people weekend with ADHD"
I’m going to learn how to:
Program with a basic language
Sketch a still life
Draw Celtic knotwork
Run for my health
Do photography with my phone camera
Etc.
All of these are cheap or free with tools one probably already has. You can take decent pics with a phone, you already have pencils, paper, and pens, and programming can be learned for free online (assuming you have a laptop or PC to work with it on)
That's wonderful! But my comment was specifically about the meme, not about you.
Nope. I am not rich at all and this is my weekend.
That's wonderful! But my comment was specifically about the meme, not about you.
There's a lot of hobbies you can start your free
Trust me, I've got a lot of free dead hobbies under my belt
That's wonderful! But my comment was specifically about the meme, not about you.
I don't just forget the to-do list. I remember it 3 days in, remember what's on it, and get so stressed about it I decide that I can just not look at it and it will probably be fine.
Are you in my house?
I'm under your bed now! You really should clean under here btw
Well since you’re already there I’ll just hand you the swiffer….
(I’d post a pic but it is actually kinda dusty under there.)
FFS are you spying on me? Why is this picture about me?
Okay so what are your new hobbies?
For some reason I want to get into skateboarding again and also started learning guitar
Guitar is cool, you can do it almost any time too 👍🏼 skateboarding is kind of accident prone, if you heal fast then go for it 😅
Yeah, the main thing is weating a helmet, but also I can get bored quicklu from that. guitar is really cool but my fingers hurt a lot
I'd say kneepads & gloves with that extra protection for when you ram your hand down onto the asphalt.
my weekends are any of: