• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    That’s a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there’s 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.

    The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don’t want to.

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
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    Cave diving. I enjoy it as it is, but it’s a huge time and money sink that has involved learning a ton of very technical skills that would be cool to be able to use for compensation

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      Damn, those are my two top fears rolled into one. Add in a handful of centipedes in that underwater cave of yours and you’ve got my holy trinity of heart failure

  • Aneb@lemmy.world
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    I consider it a ton of effort because I learned a bunch about self hosting but I would love to get paid for my Jellyfin server

  • Nefara@lemmy.world
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    Chores, organizing, cleaning. I spent so much time working on home projects this summer and when I look around it feels like I lost time. Somehow I’ve been working consistently without getting a foothold or making progress. Still laundry in the dryer and a mess everywhere.

  • magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world
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    I’ve been building a title suggestion collector bot to replace the old one Jupiter Broadcasting used to have but lost somehow. I can’t shake the feeling that it’s just a “picture on the fridge” kind of thing where everyone sees that it’s crap and nobody wants to be the one to tell me; especially considering that it constantly crashes. I just enjoy building it and it feels good to see something I made put into production.

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    15 hours ago

    I’ve spent some 5 hours just today documenting and writing instructions on some IT tools for my collective. One person said its cool though, so not bad.

  • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    I’m pretty far in the negative on my company. I’ve invested about $50,000 and 4 years of work into it, and it has not become profitable. But, its operating expenses are pretty low, so I have enough to maintain it for about 4 more years. If it’s still not profitable then, I’d have to look for outside investors. The majority of the expense was lawyer fees for the patent.

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    9 hours ago

    Maybe some of the music I produce, but then again, i do enjoy not having the demands of a huge fanbase or other public pressure to create. So, theres pros and cons