I agree it’s really frustrating at times. And the more you micromanage the more it seems to fuck something else up. I started during the pandemic with a little balcony and a ton of containers, filling gallon jugs of water in the sink or tub, filling the watering can, and then watering. It took tons of time, but I had tons of time. I’ve since moved into a place with a yard and now have a 4x8x4 in ground raised bed, but I’m also now in a place where it will get to 110 F so I put up a shade and the bed is around trees. I’m curious to see what survives once summer hits hard soon. Also in the side yard there’s no hose bib, so I had to buy a 100 foot house and run it from the front yard. It’s a total pain.

All this to say I have six pots of potatoes, for tomatoes plants in pots, squash, strawberry, basil, thyme and cilantro in the raised bed. It’s totally a huge pain in the ass. It’s taken me years to learn what to do and what to avoid, and inevitably something gets fucked by bugs or whatever, but it truly is rewarding to have a meal with a bunch of ingredients you grew yourself. The amount of money I’ve put into it would buy bushels of what I’ve grown at the store even at current prices, but it brings me joy to go out everyday and look at progress, try different things, and learn from mistakes. I’ll be doing it for the rest of my life I’m certain. Planting all natives may be easier for you. I hope you don’t give up and end up enjoying one day!

I mean, that is gardening though. I can’t baby things (well, except the jaboticaba I’m trying to bonsai), I just plant things and figure out what works. Winners stay and eventually you get a garden.

Okra and watermelon love the heat here, and the trees do fine. Most food plants I grow in winter though. Well from October through April.

Every time I see a race on TV, all I think it’s about how I could have aced every inch of every course in my 20s. Grew up tearing up dirt roads, and also never had the money to pursue it past pissing off neighbors. Rally cars always looks fun as hell.

Sunvox takes a lot of time in comparison to other DAWs. This kills the initiative.

If you want to write music, I would suggest forgetting about DAWs all together for a start. Get an instrument instead. Piece of paper and a pencil.

Only open your computer when you have something that you want to put in it. If you start with the DAW you’ll be twitching knobs all day without getting anything done.

I’m somewhat similar. I don’t think it’s impossible* for me, but it’s easy to run into issues and lose motivation or simply lack viable ideas for learning projects. Currently stalled due to multiple system-related issues**, and chilling effect of AI (copilot).

I have a YLoD PS3 I’ve fixed a few times before many years ago, though it likely was a capacitor issue that was only fixed accidentally. Don’t feel like spending money on caps/cooling stuff etc, not set up for soldering. I have another PS3 that currently works, not bothering to set up for firmware stuff for that either (slow internet, no easy way to monitor progress).

* I completed a sweeper clone months ago (in the one somewhat-niche language that I actually like) and that actually went great but I haven’t been able to share it. So haven’t done anything since then

** I probably need to use a different distro but not convinced by any, and probably need a better GPU to sidestep legacy driver issue (which could help w/updating my current setup) but everything seems like a side-grade or overpriced or both

CodeAcademy is pretty good for a free self-teaching tool, you should definitely take their course! The good news is that the stuff you learn in C# can easily translate to other languages like Java or Python. C# also has a lot of nifty synthetic sugar, it’s a fun language

Fishing doesn’t have a learning curve. It’s not learn as you go. Nobody in my family fishes but I’ve gone and sorry of slowly figured it out. I’m not super into it, my kids are more curious than anything so I’ve sort of just based what I’ve done off a few movies lol. Were just doing it in rivers and ponds though, nothing crazy. Catch and release while camping.

Have wondered about that too. Caught crabs a few times which I think is a lot easier. Even got a spider crab with just a bit of twine and a hook.

But I don’t really know where are good or bad places to go to spread out across wider areas. Swimming out to place nets could be an interesting thing to try, at that point you are getting to some pretty expensive and bulky equipment though.

Would be more interested in doing it to get food rather than as a sport. Most information, especially in the UK, treats it entirely as a sport.

Grab a cheap rod from a store or on Craigslist and some tackle you’re good to go.

Fishing (at least for me) isn’t about catching anything necessarily. We bring beers and just hang out.

In my city there’s a glasswork studio that does classes and has studio space. I have made a stained glass snowflakes and leaves. It was fun. So look to see if they’re are studios

But beekeping is for honey bees, they’re not in danger.

A lot of wild bees are in danger, though, but they’re usually not domesticated.

N scale is pretty small though there’s not as much available as HO scale.

Make it really mini.

Let me tell you, you dont need imagination. But a fun group is everything