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.

  • CoderKat@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Same. I’m lucky for software to be my hobby/career. It’s practically free. Contrary to popular misconception, it doesn’t require any kind of special or more powerful hardware (for most dev, at least). Maybe $150 for a second monitor, for sanity, but that’s not actually necessary.

    …I mean, I do have good hardware too, but that’s for my gaming hobby, not my software hobby.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, if C++ or Rust is your thing… let’s just say I’d have a Threadripper if they weren’t five grand.

      I once had to (repeatedly) compile a C++ codebase on some Lenovo shitbook. It ended up being so infuriating (thirty seconds, minimum) that I wrote a few load-bearing shell scripts to rsync everything to my desktop, build it, and copy the binary back… which was ultimately about five times faster.

      Man, I wish I could have just used MicroPython for that project.