Amazing how much of learning any hobby or diy skill in the US is about learning what to buy and googling and reading forum posts. And how far you can get with zero conceptual understanding of what you’re doing, based purely in such shopping/forum knowledge and trial-and-error.
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The only person I know who does all this shit and lots more and actually understands it all conceptually down to bare metal is
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Note my standard isn’t trying to understand every mystery in the stack of an artifact. Just everything that is presently understood by *some* group of specialists somewhere and written up in some textbook you could in principle study and get through.
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Reddit and Aliexpress eat all hobbies. All hobbies are actually about learning reddit and China.
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Gonna take a serious stab at pivoting ribbonfarm into a maker-ish blog. Got a few posts outlined on these adventures.
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“You’re not a hobbyist, you’re a redditor studying Chinese suppliers as a business anthropologist. Your hobby is an anthropological research method”
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and maybe the missing 10% of astrophotograpy is …dark matter? impacts the balance of the overall equation but not easily shown.
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Taking a class can be a great way to jump start your collection of information and experience on a topic. I took a 2 day astrophotography class from
@1StarDude and ramped up quickly.https://lorah.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-Workshop/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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