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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not the first post where I feel it but I love it so much that we have a lot of people on Lemmy that can talk about things not related to computers!

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except the selfhost crowd here.

[–] iesou@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol that was going to be mine... from using an old laptop as an xbmc->Plex server to running a thread ripper UnRaid server with 48TB and 2TB cache

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

There is large thread for this somewhere down.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes but that's only good. I'm a computer guy too, but I couldn't talk much about anything else, and I want to read about other topics too, besides this