Legitimately. Fedora Bluefin here. Giving the atomic thing a try 😁

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Ice and water fun a fridge is a luxury, but a nice luxury, and requires zero computers to do it

Wow, are you me? Haha also circuit stuff, woodworking when I was a kid, piano I never play, just got my first sewing machine a few months ago.

Add in fpv drones, ham radio, meshtastic, homelab, enthusiast grade flashlights, longboarding, snowboarding, wake surfing, backpacking, flipperzero, LINUX! Lol you can run out of time and money pretty quickly.

But, do all these things just a little, and it’s good.

Do you really never ever touch your stuff anymore? Or just nowhere near as much as you did?

Because for me, I still sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, utilize the skills I gained. I don’t go hard on any single one of those things anymore, but I’m glad that I did, or at least I tell myself I am. Now when I go backpacking, I know I have the best flashlight for the job. When I play with meshtastic, my ham radio skills tell me my antenna placement is optimal. When we were sending a care package to a sick friend, we thought of a funny inside joke to reference, so I dusted off the 3D printer and printed up a couple trinkets that were perfectly matched to the joke. When I decided to set up my homelab, my previous love of Linux made it easier to set up proxmox. When I wanted to use my camp chair at the beach, I was able to sew a sheet to stretch between the feet to support me on the sand.

It’s up to you what you wanna do. But I don’t view my hobby jumping as a bad thing. So long as I keep the spending more or less in check, who cares? I’m having fun, learning skills, and those skills can come in handy.

Other people are sometimes jealous of my ability to learn and enjoy so many things. I’m able to help them when they get started later, because I have an approximate knowledge of many things 😂

I say go for it 😁

Ours is going up $100/mo next year

Isn’t this incorrect? I always heard that, and then somebody told me no, you pay taxes on what you make up to the first bracket, based on the first bracket, then whatever you make after that you pay taxes on in the second bracket, up to the limit, etc

So yes youn pay more for what you’re making above that, but you’re still making more overall? You don’t actually go backwards. I think.

Except for like assistance and stuff. That’s all messed up. If you make just enough to get above the poverty line and lose Medicaid or snap or whatever, then you end up paying so much extra you go backwards as far as available funds. They’ve got the screws so tight, it actually makes more sense to manufacture ways to make less money, so you can stay just under the line. The gap is too big between needing assistance and being sufficient, you can’t get from one to the other. At least that’s what I’ve heard.

I’m in the US btw.

Lots of comments here, plenty of information for you. I’ll add to the pile that I started playing with my buddies stock ender 3, fought it often, lots of tweaking and configuring.

Then I got my own ender 3v2, and fought it less, but still needs tinkering. Usually though I can fire it up and print small stuff without touching it. I print infrequently these days, so the procedure usually involves wiping the dust off the bed first. But it works well enough for my needs.

I tend to get into hobbies for awhile and then back off, so I’m glad I didn’t spend more. And really, while $300 is a lot of money in many ways, in some ways it’s not so much. I’m glad I have a printer, it is occasionally highly useful. But I’m glad I don’t have a $600-1000 printer. Personally 🤷‍♂️ but that’s just me.

I loved 12s when I did them. I’m not saying to work yourself to death, I mean I did 3 12s a week, and it was amazing. Especially if you start early in the day? 6 to 6 and you’ve still got the ability to do stuff at night. Not like, ragers or anything, but like, dinner plans.

Best thing was that it was a small nursing home, 20 beds, so they fed us breakfast lunch and dinner. The food was meh, but better than fast food, and the savings were amazing!

If management didn’t stick their heads up their own butts, I’d probably still be there. But I noped out when the owner brought her step son in to run the place. He was… A piece of work. Confidently uninformed. Arrogantly incorrect. Held on high by Mommy.

Ever look into atomic/immutable distros? It’s a whole different way of doing things, but so far… I really dig it.

I have a tendency to muck about in the settings and configs, and make my system… Unstable…

But with an atomic distro, running flatpacks for most things and containers for anything exotic, my fingers stay out of the pie, and my system has been rock solid for 3/4 of a year, which is impressive for me.

I don’t think I’ll go back, not for my main machine anyway.