/hob/ - Hobbies

Invested in a lot of blurays and backups and storage only to realize I don't have anything worth caring about enough to ever bother backing up.
Honestly most stuff hoarded at random I'm probably better of losing.

What even are you guys saving?

>>70898
Biggest single one for me is copies of my Playstation/2 ISOs - because Sony can't be trusted and the hardware will wear and fade.

I can buy 10 512gb flash drives for 23 euro, think I'll do that instead

>>70941
That is not a very good idea for archiving, flash media is very volatile and over time after a few years or even just months of not being used it can lose data.
It seems more convenient but isn't an option for archiving.

Your best bet are still M-discs but if you really hate them get a nas and use it in RAID 5, its much more expensive tho.

>>64175
Not DVDs, but Ive learned recently you can buy a used HDD for a fraction of the cost of a new HDD. The same goes to those funny 15$ 320 GB USB HDDs that are basically used laptop-designed 320 GBs in plastic USB hulls. If you want to keep 2-3 backups of the same thing for some reason, those cheap things may help with that very "quantity over quality" approach.


(HDDs are better for long-term storage than flash drives)

Air conditioner.

emacs

>>71224
RMS stole it! Read up on it - it's true.

Aluminum cans, particularly the ones with the pull tab mechanism often seen in soft drinks and beer products. Pull tabs that stay on the can are actually a fairly recent invention.

Hair tie. My hair is long so I carry one of these with me everywhere, but it's for when the wind is blowing or I am running, otherwise it keeps in my pocket.

>>68735
Sorry, I was taking a break from Wizchan for the past couple of months to focus on other priorities.

I used to enjoy penny hunting too. I would always run a magnet over the rolls first and then open any that were magnetic and take out the 1943 cents, then go through the rest. I mostly got mine through coin dealers instead of banks, so it was mostly wheat pennies with some Indian heads mixed in.

Washington has not changed as far as I can tell, but I believe that they are using a new die. Probably changed out the die for the "Crossing the Delaware" quarter. They should have stuck with Washington themed quarters, kind of like the Life of Lincoln pennies from 2009. Unfortunately, I do not see these sort of special series in common denominations returning aside from the succubi of color quarters, which, as far as I can tell, nobody really likes.

Personally, I would change the dime, though. I prefer Mercury to FDR (I have the gold Mercury dime from a while ago), so I would like to see a return to that, but if it had to be a president, then Theodore Roosevelt or Ulysses S. Grant would be my choices and would give some good opportunities for different reverses (early life, military careers, etc.).

I wish you the best of luck in finding a job. I won big on scratch-offs, so I am pretty okay, despite also not having a job at the moment. My last job I quit after 11 months because it was off the book and paid comically low. I usually do well with off the book jobs (usually $20-30k/year with no taxes), this job was $1200/year because the boss kept charging "expenses" (it would have been $30k, but the boss took 97% of it away and gave me a list of bullshit reasons). What you get when you work off the book, so I cannot be upset (though I did work over 4000 hours for the money, which works out to be a little under $0.30/hour).

I guess I could sell all my bullion and coins and be able to live for a few years on it, but I would rather wait a little bit longer before then.

>>58042
Got a job across the country years ago and was interesting to see the different mint marks. never seen many S marks east of the rockies. ended up finding
>4 war nickles
>1 steel penny
>handful of silver dimes
>$2 in silver quarters
>3 40% half dollars
at the time, 2019, i figured the odds of finding silver quarters in rolls was at least 1:10,000. the steel penny was the coolest though. always heard of them but never seen one in the wild

>>58120
Krugerrands are very nice, they're cheaper than U.S or Canadian and they're very recognized, also they're an alloy so they're scratch resistant

silver is escaping orbit presently

Any coollectors, got some of these

>>61650
>>61663
>>62372
>>64098

I find it hypocritical how they glaze over specific serial killers, but never ones from brazil/mexico or blacks from the projects who are far more vicious than any of the standard american ones. They're all equally fucking hideous, yet foids seem to arbitrarily differentiate it. In modern day, there are far more serial killers across the world than in any era, yet they'll almost never be glazed the same way. The mexican chainsaw politician man for example, who was all over the news, esp. mexican news a decade ago, yet no foid glazes over him. The recent takedown of major cartel boss El Zambaya or something, who's committed some of the most vicious murders in cartel history with a massive bodycount that would make any 80s killer shudder, yet no foid glazes him. I mean, this dude murdered a young boy and his police father in the most brutal method imaginable, ripped his heart out and everything. There are african warlords who kill random people for sport and eat people on camera.

Yet foids consistently glaze over the most unremarkable, old ass killers from long ago. If they're gonna be mentally ill perverse retarded whores with loose leaky holes, then at least stay consistent. But meh, I suppose thats too much to ask from foids lmao

Maybe I'm just in an american echo chamber, maybe they get glazed outside my field of view. I'm just saying what I have seen.

I dont exactly understand foids very well so perhaps someone could explain this anomaly. Maybe my fellow wizard had a mother like this? I am unfortunately motherless :'(

>>71207
>el zambaya
retard, its' EL MAYO.(ZambaDa) Zambaba is his surname (real name) ,not his nickname\alias.
also Z42 and Z40 killed way more people, Z40, el Chayo, and el R1 from cjng were cannibals. el acido and el cherry of CDG, too, notorious cannibals.
ramon arellano COOKED a human heart and ate it.
step up your narco lore

>>71208
OKAY OKAY I GET IT I DONT WATCH GORE VERY OFTEN I KNOW I NEED TO GET MY GAME UP.

>>70431
Why is this so true xD

>>70441
>Sergeant Grey
You dont belong on this site, please go back to your tranny discord

I will try to find the articles; but there is a "theoretical genocide", posited by a Soviet-era demographer-historian, that 1 million or more (!) people died of starvation during the Great Depression in USA, as well as Roosevelt's PAW engineer projects being literally gulags in the marshes and swamps

>>71196
The researcher, Boris Borisov, in his article titled “The American Famine” estimated the victims of the financial crisis in the US at over seven million people. The researcher also directly compared the US events of 1932-1933 with Holodomor, or Famine, in the USSR during 1932-1933.
>https://www.rt.com/usa/interview-with-boris-borisov/
B.B.: Seven and a half million people does not mean the number of particular victims of the famine, but a general demographic loss, or the difference between the supposed population on the date of the census that was due to be held in 1940 and the factual number of people. In reality, the total demographic loss is bigger. The fact is not contested by anyone. The figure is more than ten million people.

>>71198
Voluntary defenders of U.S. values who venture to discuss the matter with me, normally begin with a statement that those people were simply not born. However, if we take the age pyramid and distribute the people according to their dates of birth, it becomes apparent that 5.5 million children and two million grown-ups are missing from the 7.5 million. So, those two million people could not have been non-existent – as they had been born. They could only die.

The overall loss in ten years could be estimated as being from four – or slightly fewer – to six – or slightly more – million.
Let me quote some figures, if you don’t mind – demonstrating how other countries reacted to the similar situation. If you believe that four or six million people is a terrible number, let me quote this: male mortality rate in Russia: 810,000 in 1984; 1,226,000 in 1994 – whereas the population is the same. In other words, as compared with 1984, the year 1996 had an additional number of 416,000 dead males. You have to add females and children to that figure.
https://herecomeschina.com/p/11-million-americans-starved-to-death
According to the US statistics, the US lost 8, 553,000 people from 1931 to 1940. Afterwards, population growth indices change twice instantly exactly between 1930-1931: the indices drop and stay on the same level for ten years. There can no explanation to this phenomenon found in the extensive text of the report by the US Department of Commerce “Statistical Abstract of the United States,” the author wrote.

Recently I learned to love Friendship Is Magic and also much of the series that predate it. I actually hated it when I was a teenager (without even giving it a chance) because all of a sudden it was everywhere and I felt it had a lot of overlap with furries - the niggers of the internet. I took pride in never seeing even 10 seconds of the show by the time it ended. I decided to dip my toes in to it a few years back and now I really regret barring myself from it for so long. There were some periods in my life where I really needed the catharsis of CGDCT, but my canteen of applicable anime had run dry. I think of all the fun I could have had as a young adult with other bronies online, and how belonging to a group of fellow nerdy young guys online could have been good for me (not that I didn't turn out perfect anyway). Instead of dwelling on what could have been, I instead overall feel great after having watched the series and learning to love it, while also learning that the community is still thriving. It also seems that the undesirable people have proudly "outgrown" the fandom, so no more furries!

G5 was bad and I am not looking forward to G6!

I tried watching some of this just to see what it was all about but it is a show literally designed for like 4-5 year old succubi. It is infantile. Extremely stupid and saccharine. I can't imagine the kind of mind that is attracted to such a thing.

>>71121
Sad!

>>71117
I like derpy. She is cute

The movie would've been solid good if they had given the Storm king and Tempest Shadow an epic fight at the end, with the Mane 6 teaming up with the latter.
Sure, they would've just copied the fight with Lord Tirek at the end of S4 on steroids, but Storm King resembled Tirek anyway, so they may as well have gone all out like they did with the fluid animation and tie-in Sia song..

Neet ,Hiki content attractant the wrong types of individuals. Who seek to target & torture you for a preconceived idea you have it easier than them. It’s always from the mindset if I must suffer you must but if the shoe is on the other food they would find it comical. Good neet channels exist they are just not labelled as neet channels to fly under the radar

>>71170
It's been emerging that a lot of militant NEETs are only NEET because they have such a shit personality and can't socialize in a manner that would allow anyone else to enjoy their company. Forget holding down jobs, these people can't hold down even basic online friendships without their neuroticism taking the front seat. A lot of their desire to form NEET groups comes from them believing themselves to be superior for having the aristocratic advantage of living without a job, but this superiority complex then gets applied to members of their own group until they divide what should have been a unified sect in to a set fragmented castes based on the concept of who is and is not a "true NEET" and such. Then it gets worse when there are platoons of people online who fetishize sadness and make being a depressed outcast their entire personality, who will enter NEET groups just to bring others down. Crabs in a bucket.

Seek out friendships based on a shared interest; not on a shared economic status. Despite what some paranoid jerks who had a bad experience in school will tell you, "normal" people are typically receptive to engaging in cultural and subcultural discussion with "non-normals", but "non-normals" who seek out communication explicitly with other "non-normals" will always be on edge to make sure the people they're engaging with remain in a state of not just non-normal, but subnormal to themselves.

>>71171
>Seek out friendships based on a shared interest; not on a shared economic status.
Those amount to the same thing much of the time. There was a British prime minister who would befriend anyone who was as passionate about Shakespeare as him. How many poorfags do you think know Shakespeare or any literary corpus like that?

Your suggestion is not realistic. When you are severely mentally ill, usually your only option for friends is other mentally ill people.

>>71171
>Seek out friendships based on a shared interest; not on a shared economic status. Despite what some paranoid jerks who had a bad experience in school will tell you, "normal" people are typically receptive to engaging in cultural and subcultural discussion with "non-normals", but "non-normals" who seek out communication explicitly with other "non-normals" will always be on edge to make sure the people they're engaging with remain in a state of not just non-normal, but subnormal to themselves.
Yes

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>>62896
>>62894
>ortega


b u m p

whats the email for in imageboards?

>>62993
been there XD

I've been messing around with ollama. I vibecoded up some bullshit, and I've been playing with it to see if I could just make my own, private imageboard. I somehow am not bothered by it being just bots if I know it's my bots.
I'm starting to wondering if I could make a completely off-grid, local imageboard and Youtube.
I kind of wonder if at that point whether I'd even want the internet anymore.

>>71113
AIs a r e great for drunk prompting.

>>70605
But this is not a functional society

bicycles are O9Apilled

>>71111
no, but it's not my job to fix this

>>71136
>no, but it's not my job to fix this
Too many people harboring that attitude is exactly why we're currently in a situation of sorts

>>67574
Oh, and deep space 9 is good. Not as good as TNG but nearly.

>>67576
I never liked Deep space 9 but I did enjoy TNG and Voyager.

Part of the appeal of Star Trek to me is the exploration and adventure.
Sitting on a space station most of the time just didn't do it for me.

I'm currently watching Star Trek the original series after almost a year without touching any Trek at all. I needed the abstinence to enjoy this stuff again. Just finished watching Shore Leave from the first season. It's a decent episode, a rather quaint idea but way too padded out. I won't be commenting every single episode here, but will try to make a post summarizing my thoughts on each season.

I recently watched black mirror, I made a tier list of the episodes. General thoughts, I thought the first 4 seasons were really good. There's a massive falloff after that, for 5 and 6. Season 7 wasn't terrible but it's still not great.

Some random thoughts
Be right back - I think the scene on the cliff where she tells the ai to jump is really well done. Would be lower if not for that.
White christmas - I'll give this episode credit because it was first but they really overuse the cookies concept in later episodes
San Junipero - This one's just boring? I don't get why people like it so much
Hang the DJ - I actually liked the early parts of the episode. The whole idea of leaving romance to some system that can magically find your perfect match. I like the part where they're forced to be with someone they don't even like for a whole year to give data to the system. That's interesting. But then the ending happens. "It was just a simulation lmao". Am I supposed to be surprised or impressed or something? yay yippe 200 digital clones are dead. Also, good romance is hard to execute and black mirror is bad at it
Joan is awful - The concept of the episode is cool but holy shit is the execution terrible
Mazey day - This episode is so bad that it actually wraps around to being good
Bête Noire - Kinda boring and I think the idea of one person creating a quantum compiler or whatever to control the universe is too ridiculous for me to suspend my disbelief
uss callister: into infinity - good episode but they already did the living in someone else's head thing in dark museum. I wish it had a more unique ending

I'm slowly becoming a ST fan. I watched all episodes of TNG which I talked about it here, then watched all the TOS ones and the movies. I forgot I was posting about it here but yeah, TOS is pretty good too for the most part. I even liked Spock's brain. Gave up on SNW after the first season, now I just watch people on yt shitting on it every single episode. Apparently it's a mess, glad I fired it early. Watched a couple of Starfleet Academy and it was a joke, fired after just a couple of episodes.

I tried DS9 but didn't really care for it. It's not a bad show, just something I don't feel like watching it for now. Instead I went straight to Voyager and I'm enjoying it.