Tell us about a personal project, hobby, side thing, activity that you’ve been getting into lately.

A friend recently gifted me a PinePhone so I’ve been playing around with it and testing various linux distros on it. I’ve elected to use postmarketOS running Phosh and it’s surprisingly usable as a phone. When it does break (due to user error of course) I can plug in a keyboard via USB-C and open a tty to fix it, or open an SSH connection to it (assuming that didn’t break due to user error too).

Now, it’s been fucking hot here due to a heatwave and my place—generally being much warmer than outside due to gigantic east-west facing windows (seriously, they take up nearly the entire wall)—that I haven’t been able to take my ADHD meds the past few days. So being able to do nothing but tinker with linux on a phone has been interesting, but fun enough to distract me from the pains of living in this terrible accommodation lol.

Also, thanks Australia for forcing me to use a new phone due to the absolutely scuffed 3G (+ the 4G/5G devices we won’t tell you about until we block them randomly!) shutdown. Fucking e-waste producing gremlins…

I accidentally looked outside of this instance on some of the wider Lemmy posts and saw someone who is presumably American complain about lemmy.ml promoting "oppressive, violent, ignorant political ideology. " LOL Which country just elected Trump and is funding wars around the world again? Hm

I am writing a go program which I will be releasing as FOSS soon. I don’t think I can share much about that without doxing myself, but that has been fun and I think it will be useful to some people i know. I got Warcraft 2 battle chest running through lutris with my old iso. Playing through the orc campaign right now and I am trying hard not to get pulled into modding yet. All of this vintage gaming is causing some wrist strain though lol. Thank goodness for modern control schemes!

I will be summoning some seitan and other holiday recipes so that I have some more practice before we have some carnists (and others) over. I like to cook, but the holiday season adds some anxiety to that because I feel like I need to prove that my food is just as good as others.

Oh no I missed this.

I have taken my 3d printed sluice out for use. I dug around in a river a bit, I think I picked bad spots as despite finding many indicator stones I only found 1 sapph and a handful of zircons (although one might be cutting quality). However!

There’s gold in them thar plateau!

First time finding it, pretty neat. Tiny amount though.

We just had some rain so it’s running a bit high. Gonna be a little busy for the next while launching a website and end of year stuff but I’ll be sneaking back out there as often as I can derilict my duties.

I’ve mentioned it in weekly threads before but I’ve started taking wheel pottery classes. It’s very nice to just hang out with some clay.

I brought earplugs this week and it was way less overwhelming than previous weeks. I haven’t gotten used to being out in public again!