• Yuki@kutsuya.dev
    English
    361·
    1 year ago

    Used to be sword fighting, but difficult after I got into an accident and can barely use my hand anymore…

    • DocWurzel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I used to do historical reenactment so would regularly fight with swords, spears, axes, knives etc. Great fun but the injuries start to really hurt over time. A broken knuckle and getting stabbed in the face with a semi-sharp sword that resulted in a hospital visit were my worst!

      • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        “I used to be an adventurer like you. But then I took an arrow into the knee…”

      • shapesandstuff@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        A broken knuckle and getting stabbed in the face with a semi-sharp sword that resulted in a hospital visit were my worst!

        I’m sorry this happened to you. It does sound like you and your group went way too far for the equipment you were using.

        Usually theres a tradeoff between historical accuracy, safety equipment and sparring intensity.

        If you have no adequate hand protection for historical reasins, you either need lower intensity or explicitly forbid hand hits.

        If you want to fight at full intensity of you need to fall back on less accurate protection and maybe even still adjust rulesets.

        If you want accurate swords with no rolled / flared point, you must change how thrusting works.

        I got a fencing mask imprinted on my forehead once because we also went too intense with polearms for the gear we had.

        • DocWurzel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          The broken knuckle was an unfortunate accident during a public show. The angle of the sword thrust happened to go up into my glove and popped a knuckle. The sword to the face was during training by someone who should have known better than to sneak a semi-sharp in. Still, scars to your face add character!

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      My condolences. I also lost a bunch of hobbies due to hand injuries. It’s depressing

    • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      What kind? Doing HEMA myself, though not as much as I’d like

  • jcit878@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    stealth camping. basically camping where your not supposed to / normally wouldn’t want to, and have your presence remain unknown. it’s great fun and breathed new life into “the outdoors” for me

    • gagewhylds@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Always wanted to try this but I’ve got all my gear themed orange and green. I would stick out like a sore thumb. Also I’m in northern Ontario so It would be silly

      • jcit878@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        it can still be done but you might need some camo or something. highly recommend it!

        • gagewhylds@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I ended up putting blaze orange cord on everything so I wouldn’t leave anything behind when I packed up camp. But my tarp is forest green so maybe I can do this…

          • jcit878@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            i believe in you! a lot of my gear isnt ‘stealthy’ either, part of the fun is making it work and good site selection

      • jcit878@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        either or! I don’t do vehicle stealths myself but it’s an equally acceptable part of the hobby. I personally like to camp under bridges, on abandoned structures and in the bushes on motorway interchanges. good fun

    • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’s shocking how easy it is. I’ve gotten in the habit of stripping out the caps from old electronics before I recycle them. Makes repairs a lot easier when you’ve got spare parts.

    • ShoePaste@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve always wanted to do this mut know nothing about electriconis. Do you have any good resources to get into it?

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
    291·
    1 year ago

    Some more niche than others but basically…making stuff. Cross stitch, yarn crafts, sewing, needle felting, dicemaking, 3d printing, very occasional cosplay, I’m about to try my first macrame kit and a friend is planning for us to learn punch needle together.

    There’s something just so satisfying about making real stuff you can use, or wear, or wash yourself with or whatever (I also briefly got into soapmaking).

    If you want to chat about basically any craft (or just lurk and look at pretty projects, that’s ok too), I’ve been keeping a megalist of relevant communities and magazines here https://lemm.ee/post/224890. And if anyone reading this runs a related one that should be on the list please DM me to be added!

      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Oh weird! Been chatting to plenty of people so it works in general but maybe our instances are having issues today. I am not on Matrix yet, should probably sort that out this weekend really. Just sent you a test DM see if it’s broken both ways

      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        You’ll buy it to make one thing and suddenly you’re printing everything and your whole life is made of plastic. Totes worth it though lol.

    • bleepbloopbleep@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This sounds so cool and I wish I had the time to try it all but I hardly have the time to knit as much as I used to :D

  • roux is a lib@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    I build custom mechanical keyboards. Got into it because of the Pandemic and now I have built 6 of them. /r/mk and /r/emk used to be some of my most visited subs on the other site. I’m now known as the goto for keyboard questions in my circles of friends.

    I started getting into fidgeting more lately and took a liking to magnetic sliders and now have a few that I pretty much always have with me.

    And that extended into me learning about begleri beads somehow so now I am attempting to learn that. I can do slips and 2 finger wraps and occasiaonal one finger or thumb wraps but not much else yet. I accidentally learned a stall because I messed up. I need to really learn transfers since that is one of the main things you do a lot of.

    I think I am also amongst the hyperfixator group in this thread. I was previously into speedsolving Rubik’s cubes and roasting coffee so I feel a lot of these answers lol.

    • hbocao@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      How do you build a custom keyboard? Do they sell every single part in different shapes? (I mean the “chassis”, not the key caps). How custom can they be?

      • suborbital@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        Beware brave traveler, you are asking questions that may result in a journey you did not wish to embark.

        • roux is a lib@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          This is so true. I spent hundreds on this lol. I am currently typing this on a Ferris Sweep with custom dyed keycaps and I ordered my PCBs special just so I could have them in purple to match my micro-controllers.

        • hbocao@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          lol

          I don’t think I have the patience nor the money and time, but it does sound fun.

      • roux is a lib@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        To add to what @denton@lemm.ee said, you can also buy kits from sites like Keebio and Novelkeys. There is a Etsy store call BeeKeebs I will always suggest because Leo is a really cool dude and offers a lot of kits for stuff that you’d otherwise have to part yourself.

        I print my own PCBs and aim for boards that don’t require diodes. I have most of my boards with Choc Sunsets which are aftermarket custom low profile switches form loweprokb.ca. All my boards run on a fork of QMK called Vial and the hobby gets weird from there. If you are on discord there is a meckkeys server that has a ton of info.

        For how custom they can be: Look up Ben Vallack’s Piano2. It’s an 18 key board that he uses for everyday use including writing code. QMK and it’s forks are extremely powerful pieces of software that still blows my mind and I’ve been using it for 3 years.

        • hbocao@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Holy Molly.

          That’s a lot of possibilities.

          I found some really good looking custom keyboards.

          • roux is a lib@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Another sites I forgot to mention since I was half asleep when wrote that was kbfans. I have seen people that get into the hobby to the point of building their own get kits from them or Novelkeys. Both offer hotswap PCBs which means you don’t need to solder the switches and can change them if you want. They offer 60% and TenKeyless which is probably where most people aim for so I think it’s a good place to start.

            Also if you want keycaps, Amazon, Ali and Banggood sell knockoff copycaps(lol) of a lot of designs for a lot cheaper. Look for “double shot” or “dye-subbed”. Those are gonna last and you won’t get fading legends like on cheap boards.

            And don’t get too overwhelmed with switch choice paralysis. If you break it down to linear, tactile, and clicky for feel and then light, medium, and heavy spring weight, it gets a bit easier to navigate to what you might want. Tactile will have a light bump or a heavy bump(popular in the last few years) but other than that, they offer testers and samples.

      • denton@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        They can be as custom as you want! I’ve made a few by coming up with a layout I want, making the 3D model for the case, 3D printing it out and handwiring it up myself, then doing the firmware for it.

        You can make something that once only existed in your head into something you use every single day!

        • hbocao@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Ok, I just watched a video of Ben Vellack’s Piano that @roux recommended. Damn!

        • hbocao@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh, right! I forgot about 3D printing.

          Sorry if I sound stupid but still, what about the actual board (pcb?)? I mean, yeah, I guess you can get them in custom shapes as well, but sounds too advanced.

          Another thing I’m failing to understand the possibilities of is about the firmware. What can different?

          • denton@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            You can either design your own PCB or handwire. I handwire because it’s cheaper, and I don’t have to order min 5 pieces and have extra lying around after.

            Look up QMK, you can do a million different things with the firmware.

    • aesopjah@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Found any good lemmy communities similar to the old /r’s? Used to love g what people came up with, especially with the trackball integrations and all that jazz

    • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Always though begleri beads looked fun but I never picked them up because I didn’t think I’d be able to do it at my desk. It’d look to much like I wasn’t working.

      • roux is a lib@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have the luxury of working from home so fidgeting isn’t an issue. I tend to not play with them when working as much since I end up spending most of my time picking them up off the floor. Also when you are on a phone call and hit your knuckles and blurt out an “ouch” it makes it a bit awkward lol.

  • raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I’m pretty into conlanging, which is basically making up languages. There are tons of different approaches and ways people can go about it, but like probably most (or at least a plurality of) other conlangers, I generally go for something as naturalistic as possible. I’m also into linguistics so it serves as kind of an interesting way to explore different features and grasp them better, as well as just an excuse to do more research to find out more about something.

    • Nyanix@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Whoo! I’ve been spending the last year getting into Esperanto, and been slowly getting obsessed with how language works

    • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Oooh. Have you heard of that indigenous language that is the only one in the world that doesn’t have a grammar structure that requires words? So it can be spoken, or whistled with the same functionality. It’s stupid difficult to learn, but the thought of carrying entire conversations via whistling is incredibly intriguing to me.

      I heard about it in an college anthropology class, and its been something I’ve marveled at occasionally ever since.

  • Eggs@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    I like traditional slavic folk music and leatherworking (which is misleading what I do is more like crafting rather basic things out of leather, I don’t tan or work the leather myself)

      • Eggs@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Although the overlap seems to point in that direction (and also the fact that I do enjoy the Witcher books and games very much) it’s rather coincidental:

        I actually prefer fully acapella, white-voice songs (but I do enjoy instrumental ones too) And regarding leather I’m more into making gear like chokers, cuffs and whatnot (though I’m not trying to make any money out of it as I don’t sell)

  • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    I’m really into electronics and plants. Together. I grew up on a farm with greenhouses so my interest in control systems, electricity and plants developed all together. I’ve built growth chambers, plant lights, automated waterers and yet none of that was for weed.

    • s_s@lemmy.oneEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      If I ever settle down, I want to set up a backyard greenhouse w/ aquaponics. Using arduino to automate everything is the dream.

      • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Two things:

        1. Never settle!

        2. I’ve found the Wemos D1 mini to be a better tool for automating larger numbers of things. They operate on similar principles but are actually internet capable, so they can have a simple web interface and keep accurate time. Software like Tasmota makes all that pretty easy. They can use a communication protocol MQTT to speak to each other and create really complex scenarios.

        For instance, say your porch light is connected to one. You can have it announce to the network that the porch light just came on and have the other exterior lights listen for that announcement and then change their behavior accordingly.

        It’s a lovely and attainable dream! I’m stuck in an urban apartment right now but I’ve automated my balcony garden to keep the plants healthy and watered even when I have to leave town.

  • Shurf116@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Really like most of the hobbies from comments, you guys are interesting!

    Mine are (I’m not sure if they are niche but):

    Fountain pens. Writing with them feels very nice and smooth and it’s a little piece of “retro” even though I don’t have time for any other kind of “retro”

    Lucid dreaming. It’s an exercise of control over your dreams and a chance of doing something you like when you sleep. Or experience something new. There are forums with quests like “go to an art gallery in a dream and explore what your brain can give you as a painting” or “build yourself a dream homebase with all your favorite pieces of dreams from childhood” or “jump into a chalk painting and describe your experience”

    • CraizzUK@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      As someone who writes left handed, I’ve always been envious of calligraphers and fountain pen enjoyers

      • Shurf116@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m a leftie too, also as I understand my grip is wrong, I’m a sidewriter. Writing with a fountain pen is still easier for me, you just have to use smaller nibs to avoid smudging. But yeah, calligraphy and pretty handwriting is not my strongest suite. You don’t have to write nice though to use FPs. Just write :3

    • WidowersWife@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I practiced lucid dreaming a long time ago, I still have my old dream diary somewhere. But that thing was why I quit. To get better you need to write everything down after waking up. And with better rememberence you also know more details and at some point Inwas sitting 20-30 minutes in my bed writing, and that’s not my favorite thing to do after waking up Ingottansay haha. How’d you motivate me to start with it again? Do you mind sharing you favorite forum on that topic?

      • Shurf116@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah writing down my dreams is hard for me too especially when you just woke up in the middle of the night. But i found that it helps if you don’t write it down in every last detail. I only jot down a few keywords when I wake up and that usually works, then I can flesh it out it later in the same day when I have time. Takes less effort. If you don’t remember - guess, that’s a good exercise too! Don’t do it tomorrow though, never works :'D Also it can help if you’re forced out of the bed somehow for a couple of mins (drank too much water and have to go to the bathroom, for example), then just take your journal/phone with you. It also helps with WBTB (wake back to bed) by the way.

        I don’t know is links are allowed but here’s the forum with fun dream tasks I mentioned: https://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-month-year/

        I don’t read a lot of forums but this one motivates me because users create this witty unexpected tasks I could never think of myself. And you get to feel accomplished when you finish them XD

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    you’d be shocked at how easy it is to grow most edible mushrooms. all you need to grow oysters is a syringe full of spores and some uncle bens pre-cooked vacuum sealed rice. If you want to do lion’s mane or other more complex growing cycles like that, just add a rubbermade tub half full of vermiculite and coconut coir. You can be in this hobby for like $100 up front and then like $30/batch. And yes you can grow those mushrooms, where legal of course. I haven’t tried it but it seems to be no more difficult than the ones I’ve successfully grown, and the rice trick actually comes from that community (google “uncle ben tek” for more info)

  • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    I build guitar pedals! I don’t design them, but I order the PCBs and solder the components myself. It’s significantly cheaper than buying them premade, and how many people can say they made their own pedalboard?

    I’m also an amateur Fossil Hunter. The area I live in is filled with fossils from the Ordovincian.

  • multicolorKnight@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Roasting and brewing the best coffee I possibly can.

    Installing open source operating systems or firmware on every device I can.