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What are your niche hobbies you’d like to share with other people? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't done much with it in a while, but I'm also not giving up on it, so I suppose it's still valid lol.

I collect LaserDiscs

I got started with the format around 2010, and it was super neat to delve into this old, but strangely good, format. I found that most players and films were super cheap, and as a poor family with really no ability to move to HD yet, the SD format picture was clearly worse than DVD, but not so much so that it was unwatchable or anything.

I spent a lot of time collecting new films, looking at players, etc. etc., but I took a break while in college. Turns out that in that time everything went wild, and now the format is expensive to collect for. So much so that I've basically stopped at the moment. It's still a super neat format though, and I'm not about to offload all my kit just yet.

For anyone looking for info about the format, I'd recommend Techmoan on YouTube. Matt does a lot of interesting tech videos, and the handful he's done on LaserDisc are quite good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Coffee brewing! It's not super niche (a lot of people enjoy coffee), but I'd love to get to the point where I could host free coffee for friends and be able to make just about anything one could ask for and make it well. It'd be nice to share it back just out of the love of doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s your brewing equipment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right now I’ve mastered the pour over and the cold brew, but I’ve been recently figuring out how to dive into the espresso machines. That’s been the main set back to opening up the free friends coffee shop out of my apartment lol, don’t know the right one to get and all of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love loomknitting, but I dont know if its niche enough 😅

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