I just decided to start asking this instead of ‘what do you do?’ when meeting people. Figured I’d try it out on you folks.

  • @Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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    56 days ago

    This month I’m building Bluetooth headphones for a teen I work with, he needs them to function but his parents won’t spend money on them and he keeps breaking the cheap sets he has.

    I’m working with a school metal shop to make steel frames for them and I’ve made the cups 3d printable and easy to replace. Of he does manage to break these, it will take no skill to repair them.

      • Mister Neon
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        66 days ago

        Nope. I’m going to stay vague so I won’t DOX myself, but the only stable job I could find in years is for an organization that doesn’t have the best intentions for humanity (or profit strangely enough) and actively hurts people.

        • @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          56 days ago

          I was in the same boat. When I couldn’t take it anymore I quit. I have been unemployed for just under two years now. Whatever you end up doing, stay strong.

        • @iii@mander.xyz
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          36 days ago

          doesn’t have the best intentions for humanity (or profit strangely enough)

          Reverse filantropy. Quite remarkable indeed!

  • @mwproductions@lemmy.world
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    46 days ago

    I have a podcast that I create with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object—such as a ceiling fan, or a paper clip, or a toilet brush—and we create a movie plot based on that object. The show is called Almost Plausible, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.

  • @dddontshoot@lemmy.world
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    56 days ago

    Duct tape and cardboard solutions to questions like “How do I get these two pieces of photography equipment to work together?”

    • @meyotch@slrpnk.net
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      15 days ago

      I recommend you try gaffer tape instead of duct tape.

      Advantages:

      • Remains flexible and removable forever.
      • Looks nicer, a cool matte black or manynother colors.

      Where I get off making this recommendation:

      I needed a light-excluding bellows for a photographic project. I made one using black illustration stock and gaffer tape. It worked extremely well on the first version and held up to hundreds of cycles of extension/compression. My application was sensitive to pinhole light leakage and there was none.

      It would have lasted longer but that was the end of that project.

      My two cents. I love DIY stuff!

      • @dddontshoot@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        Fair comment. I used gaffer tape a lot at the beginning of my journey because it was convenient and available, but everything I built fell apart eventually, so I started using cloth duct tape. I recently discovered aluminium duct tape which is genuinely amazing. It’s like regular cloth duct tape, but it can be shaped really precisely, and it holds it’s shape even if everything else falls apart around it.

        • @meyotch@slrpnk.net
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          23 days ago

          Also a fair point. My devices did not need to last indefinitely and I found the gaffer tape to be very forgiving when prototyping, allowing removal and replacement as I worked out the kinks.

  • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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    66 days ago

    I like to create software tools for people smarter than me to create bigger and better things.

  • snooggums
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    46 days ago

    Waste that I expell in the bathroom.

    I create hastily designed lumber creations that are used to organize and store things.

    Every couple of years I create a world for friends to play tabletop games in for a shared experience.

    Some days I get paid to create written documentation and shared understanding of complex systems used to collect and report data that someone else will hopefully analyze and use for improving the educational opportunities of children.

    I love the reframing of the question.

  • RandomStickman
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    36 days ago

    I have a comic that I work on if I got the time and energy (I usually don’t).

    I also DM and I make stories and maps for my table