Meshtastic long range radio systems. Off grid, user created, low bit rate but stupid long range.

Heh, my weird niche thing really is a niche but I’m not alone. I grew up in the early 60s and for some reason, nostalgia and/or just plain weirdness, I’m really into exotica/mid-century modern/tiki decor. Tiki bars were a big thing then, and I remember the hawaiian-themed restaurants all around town. I’m just strange, but I still love collecting tiki-related items like mugs and retro art and stuff. My bedroom is all tiki-themed.

Nice try FBI.

I intern at a scuba shop for free classes but the shop is incredibly poorly managed so I’m in a race to get all the certs before the business folds.

Theres a small indie game called Gods will be watching. Great pixel art, buut its main thing is crisis management, that happens with the player character, a hostage situation gone wrong, surviving on a desert planet behind enemy lines, and my favorite: making a cure for a deadly disease, while being caved in.

The virus couses paralysis, and in 72 hours shuts down your body systems. Not a fun way to go. All of your teammates are infected, which includes a doctor, a researcher, a robot engineer, a robot assistant, you and your friend who’s a soldier, and his dog. The only way to make a cure in this deadline is abandoning all ethics and jumping to human trials.

First you synthetise the drug, the first of maybe on pure guesses, but each completed test narrows down the possible compounds needed for the cure. Each test has a chance of killing the “lab rat”, you can try making it more stable, but it takes longer to make, and you don’t have much time. Do you go for sale ones, or try to get the cure faster? Who would you sacrifice? Obviously not the doctor, he’s needed for the cure. The researcher can help making drugs, so not her. The robot can’t be tested on, but need repairs by the engineer, so not him. You can try on yourself, but if you die you fail, so you can’t sacrifice yourself. Your friend? Or maybe the dog?

I don’t know why I’m so engrossed with this game, is pretty old by now, and on youtube there’s only a handful of playthroughs of it, but I really like the situations it puts the player in. Also the game is a bit punishing, but tells you before the game. There are no checkpoints in a chapter, which means you can lose 30+ progress by making a bad choise, out just having bad luck. But the mc has a… well not optimistic, but something similar vibe, like it doesn’t matter how bad things are, you can always work in some way to your goal.

For whatever reason, trivia and esoteric facts stick to my brain like glue. My head is packed full of eyebrow-raising, but not always useful, stuff from the internet.

This whole thread is my niche.

repairable electronics and small, simple “assistant”-free cars, apparently.

Gestures broadly to about half of Lemmy

I really like how far third party nerf blasters have come (worker, monkey mods XYL etc.) and really want to get into it, but I’m too old to play with kids and there’s no adult community here that would pick it up (as opposed to airsoft or paintball).

So I’m left with a nice ass blaster and can only plink around a small apartment with it

I spent 20 hours creating a custom school of magic for my favorite board game Black Rose Wars. It’s a school that summons all the hell demons from the inferno expansion since there’s currently no school of magic that calls them up. I got the cards printed and we played a game with them and people love them.

Wetshaving.

It’s actually a pretty common way of shaving, but I’m enthusiastic enough about it to post stuff online.

I like to 3D print, mostly functional things like shelving and hose coupling for venting.

I turned my teenage hobby into my career. I see a lot of content against that kind of thing (don’t ruin your hobby), but I love it.

It has also skyrocketed my upward mobility because I don’t see my work as work, for the most part, and I didn’t enter the job market with only a degree to prove my competence in the field (also experience). After ~10 years working, maybe I will change my mind in another 10 years.

Moonshell 2 was a better multimedia software than any current proprietary or FOSS software available.

Supported every popular audio codec, the proprietary DS mpeg video codec, MOD and chiptune formats, various picture formats, text files, and music playlists.

The audio player had a builtin equalizer, would automatically turn off the screen for battery, and could very easily be controlled by the DS’s trigger buttons when closed.

I can actually name several android music players that don’t support playlist files, it’s actually absurd. VLC doesn’t even generate relative path M3Us.

No one cares about my opinion because no one uses the DS anymore, let alone as a multimedia device.

I’m the only person I know who speaks any toki pona or esperanto lol. I’m not very good at either of them (still learning) but still.