No, that’s not realistic; I would probably transition to video game development if I wanted to make a career out of game design. I’m happy to keep this a hobby.

I now have 2 more published games, several expansions to that first game and a few more ready to publish.

I designed a board game as a personal challenge and posted my notes online along the way. As the game got close to being finished a publisher messaged wanting to help finish and sell the game. Royalties were enough for a couple small family vacations. That experience really helped cement board gaming (and designing) as one of my core hobbies.

I pre-order some games, especially table top, through crowdfunding and do enjoy interacting with developers and their early player base during beta testing / early access especially if I’m able to contribute in some way.

I’ve tried a handful with Mastodon being my favorite and Lemmy a close second.

Never heard of Sharkey.

Yep, that’s exactly what is happening; I’ve seen the same and just kept reminding everyone not to click on ads. Took a while but they actually got it.

I run Pihole on physical Pi’s and once configured to my liking has been quite nice. I’ve even had family compliment that they miss the ad blocking when they leave the home :)

I’ve been using ProtonVPN with port forwarding for quite a while now specifically on Linux by downloading Wireguard config and running it via terminal. Works great for my purposes.

Ditto though ended up dropping Bluesky

Manual drill using a large dowel, flat bit of wood with a hole for the dowel and string to attach the ends to one end of the dowel with a drill bit in the other end.

Wind it up and then press down on the bar forcing the dowel to spin. Press hard enough and excess force winds it back up again so you can keep pumping it to drill.

We did cheat by using a modern drill bit but was fun demonstrating it at my elementary science fair.

Polarity

You’re essentially just trying to make less mistakes then your opponent but the semi-hovering magnets have an awesome table presence

One of the boys we fostered over the years: he was ~10 at the time and pretty sure was bipolar or schizophrenic or something as his eyes / face would change suddenly and attitude would become extremely defiant, destructive and sometimes physically violent. Thankfully he never hurt his baby sister we also had. We managed to capture one of these episodes over phone with our social worker and was able to move him to a therapeutic home where he was the only child and able to get the help he needed. Kiddo was a chill, happy boy normally but “evil” is pretty accurate to how we felt during those episodes.

Switch to All

Yep, same

Proxmox for self-hosting game servers and pfSense for my firewall

I did an Uno Reverse one year where I had one of these ready to catch them off guard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSrPp40lHVY&pp=ygUYZnV6enkgd29ybSBvbiBzdHJpbmcgdG95

I had a few extras to give away if they chose trick. Was fun times especially the poor few kiddos that reacted more strongly to seeing it sudden slither out of my hand hahaha.

For CLI specifically mostly managing my home lab, yt-dlp and updates

DNS, Jellyfin and game servers mostly; occasionally will tinker with other stuff but those are the ones that have lasted

No, I physically connect the drive, backup my files, then disconnect and swap out for the off-site drive.

I have 2 external SSDs that I rotate keeping them offline and one offsite.

I backup weekly though my most used files are synced online so is sufficient for my use case.

Edit: I use Syncthing to backup photos/videos from phones to my laptop so they’re included in the above.