Anyone else discovering new hobbies to keep themselves interested during lockdown?

I have found out that I need more than one activity to keep me interested in day. So far it's been Blackstone Fortress (fond memories playing Hero Quest as child) and learning how to paint the minatures, teaching myself some electronics to build IoT dev
The potatoes are a bit dull once planted but a great excuse to build an automated irrigation systen.

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I have found out that I need more than one activity to keep me
interested in day. So far it's been Blackstone Fortress (fond memories playing Hero Quest as child) and learning how to paint the minatures, teaching myself some electronics to build IoT devThe potatoes are a bit dull once planted but a great excuse to build an automated irrigation systen.

I love Hero Quest! I actually have been longing for a heroquest clone as a
BBS door. Maybe as a roguelike or something. I love that game. I still have a copy but one of my monsters has a sword broken off....grrr...

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On Apr 12th 7:45 pm ryan said...

have a copy but one of my monsters has a sword broken off....grrr...

Superglue assuming you still have the missing part? I struggled with getting all the Blackstone pieces off the sprue undamaged. Some parts ended up a bit bent. I hope when they are painted it won't show too much.

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Superglue assuming you still have the missing part? I struggled with getting all the Blackstone pieces off the sprue undamaged. Some parts ended up a bit bent. I hope when they are painted it won't show too
much.

There are some replacement monster packs available on eBay for an arm and a leg. I'll probably shell out for one to complete the collection.

I'm a schmuck.

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On 04-12-20 19:32, pokeswithastick wrote to All <=-

Anyone else discovering new hobbies to keep themselves interested
during lockdown?

I have found out that I need more than one activity to keep me
interested in day. So far it's been Blackstone Fortress (fond memories playing Hero Quest as child) and learning how to paint the minatures, teaching myself some electronics to build IoT devThe potatoes are a bit dull once planted but a great excuse to build an automated irrigation systen.

Ham radio, BBSing, training and some online virtual competitions are occupying all of my time. :)


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On Apr 13th 8:45 am ryan said...

There are some replacement monster packs available on eBay for an arm and a leg. I'll probably shell out for one to complete the collection.

The professionally painted sets are ever so tempting. Comparing them with my amature attempts and I might as well be painting with a standard builder's brush.

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The professionally painted sets are ever so tempting. Comparing them
with my amature attempts and I might as well be painting with a standard builder's brush.

Professionally painted sets? You have my attention... hehe. Onward to eBay!

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pokeswithastick wrote to All <=-

Anyone else discovering new hobbies to keep themselves interested
during lockdown?

Old hobbies - I've got a to-do list for the board of things I've wanted more time for. My wife has thousands of pictures from her phone on her PC, I need to set up a duplicate image program, have her sort out her photos and get
her a larger hard drive.

I'm going to brush up on AWS while I'm at home, too.


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Re: Re: Lockdown hobbies
By: poindexter FORTRAN to pokeswithastick on Mon Apr 13 2020 08:20 am

more time for. My wife has thousands of pictures from her phone on her PC, I need to set up a duplicate image program, have her sort out her photos and get her a larger hard drive.

So I did this a couple of years ago. I have young kids and my wife takes many many photos each month.

Since I'm a digital hoarder, I was keeping them - and while keeping them, copying them from here to there, and then forgetting "my process". Plus she would send some to my phone, and I was keeping them, and copying them. Before I knew it I had 6x of the same photo.

So I wrote a tool that worked out dupes - and crunched the 100,000+ photos I have, down to 80,000+ - discarding the many dupes. And now I have a "process", so that they are finally stored in a single place (which is replicated to the cloud for backup).

I did it with videos too... Gotta like SHA hashs for helping with this.
...deon


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On 14 Apr 2020, alterego said the following...

Re: Re: Lockdown hobbies
By: poindexter FORTRAN to pokeswithastick on Mon Apr 13 2020 08:20 am

more time for. My wife has thousands of pictures from her phone on he I need to set up a duplicate image program, have her sort out her pho and get her a larger hard drive.

So I did this a couple of years ago. I have young kids and my wife takes many many photos each month.

Since I'm a digital hoarder, I was keeping them - and while keeping them, copying them from here to there, and then forgetting "my process". Plus she would send some to my phone, and I was keeping them, and copying
them. Before I knew it I had 6x of the sSo I wrote a tool that worked
out dupes - and crunched the 100,000+ photos I have, down to 80,000+ - discarding the many dupes. And now I have a "process", so that they are finally stored in a single place (which is replicated to the cloud for backup).

That's a cool project!

Thanks!
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Re: Lockdown hobbies

Anyone else discovering new hobbies to keep themselves interested
during lockdown?

Been buuilding an N scale model railroad. Got the supplies needed to add arduinos to a raspberry pi and power them with an old atx powr supply to automate it. Also play a little guitar and clear all the side missions on Borderlands 3.

I have found out that I need more than one activity to keep me
interested in day. So far it's been Blackstone Fortress (fond
memories playing Hero Quest as child) and learning how to paint the minatures, teaching myself some electronics to build IoT devThe
potatoes are a bit dull once planted but a great excuse to build an automated irrigation systen.

Cool! I was want to try hydroponics. If only tilapia could survive in the colder months.
Grease
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On Apr 14th 5:05 pm Grease said...

Been buuilding an N scale model railroad. Got the supplies needed to add arduinos to a raspberry pi and power them with an old atx powr supply to automate it. Also play a little guitar and clear all the side missions on Borderlands 3.

Nice. With a webcam and a bit of HTML you could let the world direct the trains.

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Re: Re: Lockdown hobbies

Nice. With a webcam and a bit of HTML you could let the world direct
the trains.

Cool! I read an article where you can control them with your cell phone.
Grease
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The professionally painted sets are ever so tempting. Comparing them with my amature attempts and I might as well be painting with a standard builder's brush.

I don't think I've lifted a brush in anger against a miniature in 30 years.. Mine weren't to bad although there were definitly better painters out there. Used to be pretty much all enamel back then. Thought about having a crack
more recently after the boys showed some interest in D&D, but they were all solid as a rock.. I still have a casefull of assorted miniatures that need painting... despite having gotten rid of a lot when I stopped playing...

Spec


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So I wrote a tool that worked out dupes - and crunched the 100,000+ photos I have, down to 80,000+ - discarding the many dupes. And now I have a

What platform did you write it for? This sounds handy.... if you're using hashing theoretically you could let it loose on near any filetype...

Spec


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Re: Re: Lockdown hobbies
By: Spectre to alterego on Tue Apr 14 2020 09:22 am

What platform did you write it for? This sounds handy.... if you're using hashing theoretically you could let it loose on near any filetype...

I wrote it in PHP, leveraging a library that extracted the meta data out of photos.

I detected dupes by either the hash of the image (excluding meta data), or by two photos being taking at the same time on the same device.

With dupes discarded, I used the photo time to store them in a directory.

I had to go to this level, and not normal MD5 (or sha), because depending on what your device did to the photo, it sometimes changed the meta data (and not the image) - and any changed to the meta data resulted in a new hash. Leveraging the hash of the image part of a photo immediately discarded 60% of the dupes.
...deon


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