I’ve always loved flashlights. Yes FLASHLIGHTS with an A!!! Anyway, apparently not many people share my rather niche interest.
So I ask you, fellow Lemmites, what are your hobbies and weird obsessions that you can ramble on about for hours?
Please feel free to ramble on about your passions here. Maybe you’ll find some likeminded individuals!
Falconry. It’s really more of a lifestyle than a hobby now though. I’ve been doing it for a little over 10 years now and am currently flying a cast (group of birds flown together) of 3 Harris’s Hawks.
Quick faqs:
- I use the glove and everything
- It’s a hunting sport, we catch rabbits 3-5 times a week
- We all go out together, I flush they catch
- No, they do not bring what they catch back to me, I go to them
- They don’t eat the whole rabbit, I trade them a small reward
- They are completely free flighted when doing this
- I’ve trained them just enough to get them back and work with me, they know how to do bird things naturally
- They don’t really go for your eyes, and getting bit hurts 50x less than getting footed
- They are not rescues and are perfectly healthy
- Mine are captive bred, but some are wild trapped
- Wild trapping has 0 effect on native populations, 50-90% of raptors don’t make it through their first year
- Even though mine are captive bred they are still wild animals, they are just tamed.
- This is the most regulated sport in the US
Birbs:
Birb👍
- Packing: backpacks, bags, organizers, compression sacks, all kinds of things like this. People loathe packing while I just love to play Tetris with my perfectly organized stuff. I have too many bags.
- Role-playing games: it is weird because I mostly collect them since there’s no time to play (nor to learn new rules).
- Automation: why spend 2 minutes manually something when I can spend 2 hours failing to automate it?
Automation: why spend 2 minutes manually something when I can spend 2 hours failing to automate it?
We don’t do stuff because it’s easy, but because we thought it would be easy.
I really feel that one. Currently I’m trying to fix my second nvme ssd that I can manually mount, but if I create an entry in /etc/fstab my system doesn’t start anymore, since it wasn’t able to mount the ssd.
Automation: why spend 2 minutes manually something when I can spend 2 hours failing to automate it?
We don’t do stuff because it’s easy, but because we thought it would be easy.
I really feel that one. Currently I’m trying to fix my second nvme ssd that I can manually mount, but if I create an entry in /etc/fstab my system doesn’t start anymore, since it wasn’t able to mount the ssd.
I play the trumpet for now about 8 years. I almost exclusively play it in my local music group.
My second unique hobby is probably tinkering with my arch Linux system. I absolutely live(and hate) spending hours trying to get stuff working how I want it to work.
I also love physiscs. I watch a lot of YouTube and like to watch videos about newer Physics( Theory of Relativity, Astronomy, Quantum Physics and Theoretical Physics). I like to have a whole existential crisis after watching a video, which just destroyed my view of the world.
